Pressing buy: The state of mobile commerce in 5 charts
In just two years, nearly half of all e-commerce transactions are likely to occur on mobile phones. Following serious investment from brands, mobile has moved from a pre-purchase tool to a place where users are […]
The ‘Magic’ of Email Marketing
Everyone who has shopped online has experienced this once. Remember searching the internet for a new coffee maker and instead filling your cart with “essentials” like fancy chocolates? Then, you […]
Leveraging hotels’ true unconstrained demand with better data sources
The hospitality industry has long used typical information sources to create as accurate a demand forecast as possible. However, with more sophisticated technology and software now available hotels would do […]
How Airbnb Uses Data Science to Improve Their Product and Marketing
As well-known as it is today, Airbnb had quaint beginnings. Unable to afford the rent for their San Francisco loft, founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia turned their living room […]
Enterprise Data and the Future of Hospitality
In the hotel industry, there’s a longstanding tradition of leaders making decisions based on gut instinct. Whether it’s a general manager who’s been in the business for decades or a […]
Airbnb Guests Motivated by Low Cost, Use It as a Hotel Substitute
Travellers who use Airbnb tend to be motivated by the service’s practical benefits (low cost, convenient location, and household amenities), and usually rent entire homes rather than sharing the accommodation […]
One ROAS to Rule Them All? No.
When optimizing our hotel metasearch campaigns, many of us get caught up in the day-to-day of bid changes, statistical analysis, and UI experiments as the main ways we affect the […]
The Key to Pricing Your Hotel “Just Right”
One of the most challenging and important aspects in revenue management is providing the right price for the right customer at the right time. It can be a struggle to […]
10 Companies Demonstrating Effective WeChat Marketing Campaigns.
WeChat has become a marketers’ best friend when it comes to conducting a social network campaign in China, in this article we will first have a look at WeChat’s main […]
Dubai holiday homes problematic for hotel sector
The effects of the rise of holiday homes on the hospitality market have been highlighted by Knight Frank Middle East in its latest hospitality report: Dubai’s Holiday Home Market. The […]