Should Hoteliers be Concerned with Amazon Disrupting Online Travel?
A recent analysis of Amazon’s ability to disrupt online travel agencies by Morgan Stanley was in the news with a number of opinion articles on the subject being published. “Online […]
How AMP for Email Could Change the Way We Book Travel
Advertising hotels through email have always been a tricky proposition. To do so effectively requires the dissemination of useful and attractive information, and the volatility of the space makes this […]
4 Ways guest feedback can get your priorities straight
Managing a hotel is all about making tough decisions and finding answers to difficult questions: Where do you spend your limited budget? Whose side do you take – a valued […]
Hotel PMS Should Include These 6 Things Or Competition May Win
The world of hotel property management systems (PMS has become somewhat confounding lately. There are a myriad of new entrants, and the legacy systems are trying to hang on by […]
Common vanity metrics in hotel marketing and what to measure instead
When it comes to hotel marketing, vanity metrics are numbers that make you look good, but don’t really say much or contribute to your bottom line. Common examples in online […]
13 Things to Know on the Quest for Hotel GDPR Compliance
Today’s topic is a VERY important one. GDPR, which is the new set of regulations around data protection standards that are coming into effect in Europe in May, is a […]
A Hotel Twitter Guide
Twitter is one of the most popular social networks in the world with more than 300 million monthly users. Contrary to other platforms like Facebook and Google+, Twitter focuses on […]
A hotel marketer’s guide to CRM
Typically, the marketing department plays the lead role in CRM, acting as the primary user and key operator of CRM software and managing guest communications and data. As the guardian […]
3 Short Case Studies in Total Revenue Management Algorithms
One of the arguments I continually make in this blog is that many Total Revenue Management efforts are being thwarted by the fact that managers are using the wrong measures […]
Lawmakers Take Aim at Airfare Pricing, Transparency
For years, airlines have been known to cling to outdated and even antiquated technology, afraid that upgrading their tech infrastructure could lead to the catastrophic downages that have affected most […]