AccorHotels plans for digital, growth and greedy OTAs
A raft of acquisitions and digital developments is helping the French chain to become a key player in industry consolidation and a serial entrepreneur has been appointed to help, writes […]
18 Seriously Useful Tools for Your Hotel Marketing
As an independent hotelier, you have to constantly market your hotel to attract steady business. Unfortunately, if you’re not a part of a large chain and you don’t run a […]
Strong revenue growth for Asia-Pacific hotels in 2016
A summit of over 200 leading Indonesian hospitality industry professionals has predicted a positive outlook for the regional hotel sector, with 65 percent of attendees forecasting six percent or more […]
Marriott VP Digital Marketing on Digital and Apps
Andy Kauffman is a digital guru. He is vice president, digital marketing & Marriott.com for Marriott International working as the general manager for Marriott.com. He oversees everything from product strategy, digital acquisition, […]
Why Google woke up and smelt the travel coffee
Google has never been lacking in confidence – and that’s not just because it has a market cap of $487 billion and last year took in $74.5 billion in revenues. There […]
Direct Bookings: What Independent Hotels Can Do
The first half of 2016 has seen a sea change in the way hotels deal with direct bookings. Direct bookings are no longer an alternative to third party sites and […]
Now time for Airline pricing spring clean
Does your pricing strategy have cobwebs? Was it developed at a different time in a different market context? Could it use some ‘spring cleaning’, disposing of practices that don’t make […]
Bahrain hotel revenues drop 7% in March
Hoteliers in Manama saw total revenues slump by nearly 7% in March despite reducing payroll levels and overheads, according to new data. HotStats figures showed that total revenue per available […]
Drive Direct Revenue with New Booking Platform
Travel Tripper, the industry’s most innovative provider of hotel reservation and e-commerce solutions, today announced the launch of Travel Tripper Web (TT Web). This new website platform for hotels increases […]
Hotel distribution is not a one-shot deal
Getting hotel distribution is not a one-shot deal and requires an attack from multiple angles In case you missed the analysis piece last week – Hotels and the dirty battle […]