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Google to List Total Prices

Google has added taxes and fees to its hotel searches as part of a series of new features, allowing consumers to see both ‘nightly price’ and ‘nightly total’.

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How Booking Sites Like Expedia Handle Controversial Resort Fees

If you go through a third-party booking site to make hotel reservations, you’ll see certain hotels pop up first over others. In the case of Expedia Group sites, such as […]

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Is Black Friday Worth It? We Take an In-depth Look

After the consumer madness and mayhem of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it’s a good time to look back on whether the results were as we expected or whether we […]

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Five Common Types of Seasonality for Vacation Rentals and DMOs

Understanding trends of markets with similar seasonality patterns and exploring business practices of companies in those markets will help ensure your success as a DMO or Property Manager

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Increase Your Visibility Through Instagrammability

Did you know that 61% of people booked a hotel after seeing it pop up on their social media feed? For today’s traveler, that perfect photo opportunity is make or break when […]

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Best Practices for Growing Direct Booking Revenue

Digital marketing has been around for more than 20 years, yet it still feels very disruptive, and for most organizations, is under-delivering on its promise – which is to create […]

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How to Win Holiday Bookings

As temperatures drop and competition heats up, try to offer guests something a little different for Christmas to stand out. Aim to spread holiday joy to guests and you’re sure to win holiday bookings

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How to Personalize Hotel Stays for Different Travelers

We segment hotel customers into three broad categories based on their travel search behavior. You can use this segmentation to understand what different travelers want so you can attract them.

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The Dual Strategy To Drive Direct Bookings To Your Hotel Website

These two distinct strategies are often conflated. Understanding why each strategy is important and how it fits into your hotel digital marketing efforts is essential to reaching your revenue goals.

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How OTAs Use Words To Change Your Perspective … and Your Perception.

Words have the power of changing the world. In our little big world, OTAs know too well how to use words, with travellers to sell them your hotel.

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