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How Hotels Can Leverage ‘Social Proof’ to Increase Direct Bookings

Social Proof is a shortcut to decide how to act. Showcasing social proof on your hotel’s website can be your best friend when it comes to engaging online visitors and converting them into guests

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An Eggcellent Strategy to Increase Family Bookings this Easter

You can learn a great deal from previous years’ bookings. When did people previously book for Easter? Longer lead-in from the US market vs. domestic? What was your rough occupancy?

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How Can Hotels Improve OTA Rankings? – 11 Surefire Ways

Analyze and take time to improve OTA rankings for your property. Better ranking can make a huge difference in reaching a wider range of customers who would book your hotel and enhance revenue

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Overbooking: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Overbooking in hotels can be both good and bad, and it most certainly does get ugly, particularly with those on the receiving end of a nudge into another property or location

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50 Tips and Tricks to Turn Website Visitors into Hotel Guests

A common thread through these tips is they all move towards an optimized hotel website. Aware that this can be a tricky field, we have prepared a checklist: 50 ideas to boost hotel website conversion

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Bracing for the Future in a Google First World

Google will continue to want as many players advertising on its platform. OTAs and metasearch sites will need to adapt and evolve. It just means the industry is playing the game by Google’s rules

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Top Hotel Booking Revenue Makers of 2019 Show no Stopping of Direct Channel

Within 14 of the 20 tourism destinations, direct bookings – gained via a hotel’s website – either climbed the list from the previous year or maintained their position among the top five spots

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Channel Manager, Web Booking Engine, Front Desk System: How Are They Different and Why You Need Them All

The road, the car, and the fuel are three components necessary for a journey. The same can be said of front desk software, a booking engine, and a channel manager for a guest journey

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Google My Business Reviews Directly Correlate to Your Hotel’s Conversion Rate

So, your hotel has a substantial number of reviews and a great star rating, now what? Reply! Enterprise businesses are hovering around a 10% reply rate

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How to Increase Hotel Direct Bookings

When you invest in an integrated digital marketing strategy, the more you will see from it. You will be seen more in the digital landscape, compete with OTAs and in the end see more direct bookings

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