5 best ancillary revenue ideas for independent hotels
When you distribute your rooms through online travels agents you are liable to pay a commission fee for the bookings they drive for you. The good news is it doesn’t […]
4 Tips for Improving Your Hotel Visuals in 2017
High quality hotel visuals increase bookings! That should be enough of an incentive for hotel marketers to create and distribute great visuals, but if you’re the type of person who […]
Surfing Intent Data: Read Audiences’ Minds!!
What if you knew the concerns that were uppermost in your customer’s mind, right now? Or, which of the folks in your Eloqua database are most intensively researching the topic […]
Create loyalty in travel by tracking the competition
If you’re looking for customer loyalty, you won’t find much of it in the travel industry. While 74% of business travelers claim to prefer booking travel through one platform, only […]
Airbnb: the vacation rental genie is out the bottle
The vacation rental business is currently worth $100bn but Airbnb is reportedly still not profitable, and the competition is growing. Cities may be fighting to restrict it, but the Airbnb […]
The Metric (Most Hoteliers Ignore) That Can Significantly Impact Revenue
When most hoteliers consider their revenue management metrics, they most likely think about RevPAR, ADR and occupancy. Perhaps, they would also think about historical and current local demand. But for […]
The Science Behind a High-Performing Hotel Website
Your hotel website should be your most profitable booking channel. If it’s not, then you may be focused on the wrong things. In our final webinar for 2016, we looked […]
How Facebook Marketing Will Look in 2017
Change always comes thick and fast in this industry but 2016 has felt like a real turning point. All the tech giants are making big things happen as we move […]
Why UGC is the future of social media in travel and tourism marketing
Relying on user generated content (UGC) in social media marketing can be a gamble. It can work if you have a great creative idea, a sizeable existing audience and a […]
Hotel SEO Cheat Sheet: How to improve your Google rankings
Did you know that Google changes its search algorithm up to 600 times per year? Stats like this make it tough for any hotel business to keep up. Nobody ever […]