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Tips and Tricks to Generate Maximum OTA Hotel Bookings

As part of your hotel OTA bookings strategy, knowing which OTA works well for which region is essential. You will find hundreds of them selling hotel rooms

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Building Strategies to Drive and Convert More Direct Traffic

One of the most impactful strategies hotels must revisit is customer acquisition. Travelers are shopping in different ways and looking for new experiences

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How Hotel Marketing Channels Can Help You Win Online Direct Bookings

Even though online marketing is not exactly a new strategy, the best channels and practices are constantly evolving and the rules of the game keep changing

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Direct Booking Success: How Hotel Groups Are Boosting Direct Sales

This increase in direct traffic won’t tip scales to hotel’s, OTAs are too strong to back off. Let’s see how direct booking strategies help hotels succeed

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A Few Thoughts on Your Hotel’s Distribution & Channel Strategy

With increasing guest acquisition costs through OTAs, hoteliers need to rethink distribution, their effective channel strategy, and recharge direct bookings

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Benchmarking Your Hotel’s Direct Channel Performance

Traditional hotel benchmarking tends to be based on occupancy and rates, with no visibility on how the end result came to be. We thought you needed more

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Run Your Own Booking.com Flash Deal Without the Commission Fee

You have a room at $100. If you sign up for Flash Deals, that room will sell for $70, less average commission rate of 20% – so the room earns you $56

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Google Hotel Ads Shaking up Balance OTA Market Share vs Direct Sales via Metasearch

Google is penetrating the hotel distribution vertical with Google Hotel Ads. What does this offer hotels in terms of revenue management and marketing?

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Top 4 Ways to Entice Your Hotel Guests to Book Direct

Carefully planning offers and showcasing effectively across your site, will not only drive more guests to book direct but return without OTAs being involved

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How to Improve Hotel Staff Communication with Social Media Approach

The result of poor hotel staff communication is an upset guest or blown booking opportunity leading to poor guest engagement and lower satisfaction scores

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