booking

When considering Vienna as a popular city trip destination, it does indeed seem like hotels are strategising around domestic weekend travel in June and July

Developing workable marketing strategies for your hotel business is a challenge, but we have seven strategies you can utilize to encourage direct bookings

Even through this period of uncertainty the GDS has consistently remained one of the highest ADR channels. And travel agents have some excellent reasons to keep booking hotels through these

Using the downtime now to rethink your distribution strategy and direct sales channels to optimize your direct bookings is a good plan in any case

While consumer expectations and confidence will be a big driver of mid-to-late recovery trends, the first signals leading to initial demand growth will be policy change

Whether you are five-star luxury or two-and-a-half star economy, I challenge you to ask yourself: “How attractive is my hotel right now to consumers using this type of booking decision making?”

As we start to see search volume increase for hotel terms and governments relaxing stay at home orders in the next few weeks, pent up travel demand will evolve into bookings

Domestic travel sees an increase in popularity as travel restrictions begin to be lifted, many regional airlines continue to extend the suspension of flights and large, global events, continue to be shifted

As we look forward to the rest of May, we can expect an increase in hotel searches. While we can prepare for increased volume, we expect the highest demand increase to be for domestic searches

People aren’t ready to make bookings yet, but they will be and some are predicting quite quickly. Many hoteliers are starting to get a strategy, and tech, in place to capitalize on this momentum