Proven Hacks for Hotels to Capitalize on OTAs

The Battle against OTAs isn’t just fought at the traveler’s booking stage. In this highly competitive market, hotels much deliver exceptional service if they are to succeed. OTAs are an […]

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The Science Behind Increasing Direct Bookings

With the ever-growing importance of the direct booking channel and the increasingly complicated path-to-purchase behavior of the multi-channel and multi-device travel consumer, today’s hotel website can simply no longer afford […]

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Six Things Scaring The $%#@ Out Of Hotel Marketers This Halloween

NB: This is an article from Tambourine For Halloween, we asked hotel marketers from coast to coast, representing properties of all sizes, what they’re most spooked about right now. Here is […]

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IATA predicts airline distribution revolution by 2021

IATA is forecasting a fundamental overhaul of airline distribution within five years, shifting to what it calls an “active distribution” model. In a major report for the global aviation industry organisation, […]

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The four booking behaviours driving travellers

Men spend less time booking trips than women. Younger travellers tend to start their planning later. And 59% of travellers begin researching their next trip between one and three months […]

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Stop rewarding loyalty at the cost of the bottom line

Forbes recently released a list of the world’s most rewarding hotel loyalty programmes. The tally saw Wyndham Rewards replace Marriott at the top of the pile. The list, compiled by […]

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Lessons from an OTA on Converting Users

In the modern travel market, online travel agents have successfully retained the lion’s share of online travel bookings made by users – according to a 2016 Phocuswright study, 66% of […]

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Strategies for Winning the Direct Booking Wars

NB: This is an article by Revinate It’s been a busy year on the “book direct” front. Hotels of all sizes are facing off against established and emerging online travel […]

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Is it time to review the designation of “revenue manager”.

Search engines, OTAs, review sites, metas and other tools have changed the way travellers look and book rooms. But revenue management has remained the same during my fifteen years working […]

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How Should Revenue Managers Use Data? [Infographic]

NB: This is an article from NetAffinity How should revenue managers use data? What common pitfalls do they fall into? What are the contemporary “best practice” revenue management techniques and intelligence […]

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