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Effect of TripAdvisor Reviews on Bookings

While we know that travel reviews influence traveler decisions—95% of travelers report using travel reviews regularly to make booking decisions*—the impact of reviews on hotels goes much further than just […]

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Advance Booking Uptick is Welcome News

As the fall season comes into full swing, hotels in major North American markets are experiencing an improved advance booking pace, as well as healthy increases in both transient (individual […]

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How operations impacts revenue management

As in many industries, pricing in airlines is often considered a headquarters function, a process that may require detailed customer segmentation, complex demand forecast algorithms and optimisation routines. For airlines, […]

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Do ride-sharing app partnerships drive revenue

Big-name brands have already entered into partnerships with ride-sharing services such as Uber and more such collaborations are expected to roll out in the future due to the convenience they […]

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The Big Revenue Management Reset

Today, a revolution is happening in hotel revenue management as hoteliers with the highest profit expectations are beginning to follow the customer instead of the product.  They are using advanced […]

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Criteo data deep dive charts rise of mobile

An analysis of mobile travel bookings has underlined the rapid growth of business being done via handheld devices. While mobile overall accounts for 23% of travel bookings globally, up from […]

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Record-Setting Hotel Performance

Numbers don’t lie. Currently, they’re saying hotel performance is on a major tear, hitting all-time highs in occupancy and RevPAR. As president and COO of research firm STR, Amanda Hite […]

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Back to the Basics Pt 2: Hoteliers and analytics?

We continue our fall “back to the basics” refresher series on analytics for hoteliers. Last week, we reviewed the analytic methods that can be utilized by hoteliers. This week we […]

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Back to the Basics Pt 1: Analytics primer

It’s back to school time, and back to school reminds me of getting back to the basics. So, we thought we’d start the fall with a “back to the basics” […]

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Big social data drives brand campaign

LateRooms‘s marketing strategy now includes social media and big data as well as the more traditional channels. Five years ago Rich Kemp joined LateRooms to help formulate its social media […]

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