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Jumpstart Your Hotel’s Direct Bookings through Multichannel Campaigns

Multichannel campaigns are one of the most effective ways to boost direct bookings, build one-to-one relationships with current and future guests, and ultimately, encourage repeat guests throughout the customer lifecycle. […]

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Consumption of digital travel content sees double-digit growth

A new study explores how the interaction between travel booking websites and other influential online and offline touchpoints can impact the purchase journey for American, British and Canadian travelers. The […]

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Kayak’s CEO critiques Google, Airbnb, and others

Steve Hafner, co-founder and chief executive of Kayak, is living up to his reputation for being one of the liveliest annual on-stage interviewees at the Phocuswright Conference. On-stage he says […]

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TravelClick Launches New Responsive Booking Engine Driving More Direct Bookings

TravelClick (“the Company”), a global provider of innovative, cloud-based and data-driven solutions for hotels to maximize revenue, announced the launch of its new, interactive Booking Engine 4.0, designed to increase […]

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Stop the blame game Hotels and embrace OTAs

The perception that online travel agents are “horrendously expensive” is false and they should be embraced by hoteliers, a business expert says. Speaking at Duetto’s Revenue Strategy Forum, Professor Peter […]

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How To Add Basic Hotel Booking to a Chat Bot

In the past years, we’ve seen an explosion of chat bots across multiple industries. Many times we are asked what can a chat bot do, and how would it benefit […]

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Book on Google: Similarities and differences from TripAdvisor Instant Booking

  This past year, Google and TripAdvisor revolutionised the travel industry by launching Book on Google and Instant Booking respectively. Comparing one with the other will help us understand them […]

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3 Marketing Tactics to Persuade Travelers to Book Direct

A common challenge that many independent hotels continually face is capturing direct bookings and preventing OTAs from not only taking away that potential revenue but also that relationship with the […]

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Can Direct Booking Campaigns End Up With Both Sides Declaring Victory?

Shifting hotel bookings to their own websites is clearly a positive for the large hotel chains, but online travel agencies could actually come out ahead, as well. For the online […]

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Winning the Hotel Booking: Digital Marketing Summit Recap

In this article, we recap the third presentation from our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers, “Winning the Hotel Booking.” The Booking phase is perhaps the most important phase of the […]

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