booking

10 Ideas to Improve Booking Performance During the Crisis

We have dozens of hospitality clients, so we decided to put together some recommendations for where to invest time and focus during the crisis and here we share them with the rest of the industry

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Google Adds Photos to Hotel Ads

Google is back at it, adding another vital feature to results in its Hotel Ads product to help users decide where to book: pictures of the rooms

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How Hotels can Navigate a Demand Shock During a Crisis

A demand shock in the travel industry can come from many sources; a financial crisis, health crisis, or political crisis. And as the term suggests, they often can’t be predicted

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How To Increase Hotel Revenue in Low Season

Hotel low season revenue has long been considered to simply be an unfortunate fact of the industry. It brings less demand and, therefore, lower revenues too

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4 Steps to Optimizing your Hotel’s OTA Ranking

Here are the four steps you can take to optimize your hotel’s OTA profiles to improve your ranking, land more bookings – and make more money for your hotel

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Creating a Picture Perfect Booking Experience for Guests

Incorporating professional photos of everything your property has to offer not only captures attention, it drives greater bookings – creating a picture perfect booking experience for online travelers

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Update Corona: Impact on Website vs OTA Bookings

While some segments can evaporate in hours, your direct online segment is much more stable. If your share of direct business is below 10% of your bookings, you can be seriously harmed

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Podcast: Oaky and Staah talk Hyper Personalisation

We discuss the topic of Hyper Personalisation, how this extends personalisation, which we are all familiar with, and clarify how this should not to be confused with segmentation

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3 Ways to Get Travelers Back to Your Website and Book Direct

With an 80 day average buying cycle for travel, it is important to not let travelers who visit your website once fall through the cracks. Here are 3 ways to get them back to your site and book direct

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Calls for Rate Parity Ban Rise Up Again in UK

Research by Which? suggests 80% of hotel rooms can be booked cheaper by going direct than through OTAs. Rate parity clauses were blamed, with UKHospitality calling for the UK to ban them.

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