data

Why You May Need to Change Your Competitive Set Now

To maintain the confidentiality of hotel data, STR imposes certain restrictions on the hotels for which it will provide competitive set data. The Marriott-Starwood merger is shaking up the world […]

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How to Prepare Your Hotel for Marketing Automation

In hospitality, marketing automation is on the leading edge of industry technology. Despite years of 50 percent annual growth, marketing automation is still the new new thing for almost all […]

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7 Data Science Skills Hotel Accountants Need

There was a time, not too long ago, when Finance and Accounting had complete control over most of the decision making data in any business.  I caught the tail end […]

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Turning data into action: segment your audience

Data is changing the foundation of hospitality marketing. With personalized content, hoteliers can now engage and nurture their guests like never before. As a result, you have a new way to […]

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Why optimisation should be a priority in digital world

The digital economy has created a new risk and reward model. The online and mobile population is set to double by 2020, millennials have ever increasing buying power and the […]

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Use SEO to Connect with Segments of Your Hotel Market

There is no one-size-fits all. Your hotel’s website serves the primary function of allowing customers to book rooms online with ease, but not all of your customers are so easily […]

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Supply and Demand: Are you maximizing room revenue?

The theory of supply and demand is one of the fundamental principles of economics. However, it’s not something constrained to leading economists. And when it comes to maximizing your hotel’s […]

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Changes to the TripAdvisor Popularity Ranking Algorithm

Why We Changed the Popularity Ranking Algorithm Over the past decade, the volume of reviews and opinions on TripAdvisor has increased exponentially – from six million in 2006 to over […]

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Hotel Industry Fundamentals Are Good and Will Continue

Hotel industry fundamentals are good, and will continue to improve. But the hotel industry is being punished by the disconnect between the investment community of Wall Street and actual performance […]

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Market Your Hotel On a Limited Budget

NB: This is an article from NetAffinity A limited marketing budget is sometimes a given when you work for a small independent hotel. Low costs that yield high returns are the […]

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