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What Google Generative Search Means for Hotel Direct Bookings

With Google’s Generative Search, users receive detailed answers, trip summaries, and personalized insights based on conversational prompts

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AI Will Display Inventory and Prices in Real-Time. Are You Ready?

This is where access to real-time ARI – availability, rates, inventory – comes into play. Can you imagine when AI returns final exact prices?

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How Are Hotels Capitalizing on the Micro Event Trend?

78% of event planners anticipate an increase in small- and medium-sized meetings this year. This isn’t just a trend – it’s a fundamental shift

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Google I/O 2025: Key Takeaways for Hotel Marketers

Google announced it’s bringing agentic capabilities to AI Mode, starting with the ability to let the agent search out and present site options to book

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Beyond Hotel Silos: Embrace the Guest Journey

We must reorient our entire hotel operation around the core guest journey, which can be understood in five key stages

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Smarter Revenue Tools Mean Stronger Marketing and Big Wins

It’s no wonder 38% of operators say revenue management is too time-consuming, and 36% admit they’re uncertain about optimal pricing

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The Hotel Industry is Most Commercially Unleveraged Sector

In a world where every other major consumer sector has figured out how to monetize attention, the hotel sector is still largely selling rooms like 1999

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old hotel hallway reflecting the importance for hotels to check their photos and which ones are actually showing on the brand distribution networks

Hotel Alert: Check Your Distribution Networks for Old Photos

Someone on your team goes in to delete the old photos again, and the next day or the next week, there is that pesky image yet again

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stack of coins arrows pointing up and a graph going upwards reflecting how hotels should develop strong revenue strategies for Q1 before the pressure ramps up later in the year

Crunching the Numbers: Is Your Promo Really Profitable?

Here’s how to crunch the numbers before and after a promo to see if it actually worked – or just boosted volume at a cost

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3 Emerging Booking Trends You Can Not Ignore in 2025

The guest booking journey is constantly evolving, is your hotel’s direct booking channel ready to welcome today’s modern guests?

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