Hoteliers envision similar industry technology in 2020 as ten years ago

While hoteliers anticipate highly-sophisticated and ‘digital native’ hotel guests in 2020, their plans for industry technology remain stuck in the early 2000s. This is the startling research finding from ‘The […]

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4 Tips for Facebook’s Dynamic Ads for Travel

In our previous blog post, we highlighted the main differences between Dynamic Ads for Travel (DAT) and Dynamic Product Ads (DPA). Put simply, Dynamic Ads for Travel (DAT) is essentially Dynamic […]

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Big Data Moves Hotel Revenue Management Toward Perfect Pricing

Hotel distribution has changed a lot in the last 20 years. However, hotel revenue management practices haven’t. This is because the technology used hasn’t kept pace. Revenue managers want to […]

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Airbnb & Noise data: How the data handshake improves customer experience

Data’s value increases when it’s shared, and you can make money by selling it. Sharing data allows marketers to better understand who their best customers are, which consumers they should […]

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Increasing everyday engagement with loyalty programmes

Hilton’s recent shake up of its loyalty programme is a bold move for the company and will impact the whole travel and hospitality sectors. Rebranded as “Hilton Honors”, members are […]

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The Airbnb effect on hotels – experiences, tech provision and convergence

In less than a decade the twenty-something founders of Airbnb have gone from selling politics-themed cereal, back in 2007, to raising $850 million on a $30 billion valuation. In short: […]

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Survey Says: The Impact Of Email List Segmentation On Engagement

We already know that generic blast emails, or those that you send to your entire database, are actively hurting your ability to communicate with your guests. Fortunately, targeted email campaigns, […]

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A Crystal Ball for Marketing & Revenue Management

Owners and operators are dead set on obtaining more direct bookings for their hotels to maximize their profits. Revenue management and marketing, more than ever, must align in order to […]

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Responding to TripAdvisor hotel reviews: good, bad, and ugly

By now it should be no secret – hotel owners or managers must be quick to the keyboard in responding to guests’ reviews on platforms like TripAdvisor. It shows your […]

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8 Key Revenue Strategy Trends for 2017

Even compared to 2016’s chaos, making predictions for 2017’s revenue strategy trends has proved a challenging task! In many ways, 2016 was a year for defying logic and taking actions […]

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