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Exploring the Frontier of AI in the Hotel Industry (Part 2)
AI has well and truly entered the mainstream and for travellers it’s becoming just as essential as Google and TripAdvisor used to be
When AI Books the Room, Who Owns the Guest Relationship?
If the conversation becomes the storefront, and the storefront shapes the shortlist, who ultimately owns the guest relationship?
How Reputation Management Impacts Visibility and Bookings
If your reviews improve, your visibility improves. When your visibility improves, more travelers see and click on your property
Hidden Cost of OTAs: Chargebacks You Didn’t Sign Up For
When hotels partner with OTAs, they expect bookings, visibility and revenue. What they don’t expect is a stream of chargebacks that show up later
Predatory OTAs Are Hijacking Your Boutique Hotel Bookings
A growing network of predatory OTAs and rogue affiliates are aggressively bidding on boutique hotel brand names and siphoning off your most valuable guests
How to Stop Guests from Running Back to OTAs
The important question is not how to increase traffic. It is why so many guests hesitate at the final stage of decision-making on the hotel’s own website
Top 6 Booking Priorities for Today’s Leisure Traveler
The study reports that a hotel’s price, location, reviews, booking options, experiences, and sustainability are the top decision points for travelers
Hotel Paid Ads: Where to Use AI vs Human (and Why)
The real question is no longer should we use AI in hotel ads, that’s settled. The question is, which decisions are better made by machines
Help Your Direct Bookings Bloom with Creative Seasonal Strategies
Let’s explore timely and strategic approaches to capture demand early and turn seasonal interest into direct bookings
LLMs Are About to Hand More Power to OTAs
Over the next five years, expect OTAs to compete to influence decision formation. That is not evolution. That is a structural shift in bargaining power
