Expert Insights
5 Significant Ways to Increase Direct Bookings
Direct communication is at the centre of personalising your approach to customer retention. In order for your guest to value your business over your competitors, they need to view your […]
How Google Latest Experiments with Metasearch Could Impact Hotels
Just a few weeks ago, Google began testing a new hotel pricing and availability graph. This new feature shows average pricing for hotels when users carry out a branded hotel […]
Maximise Your Hotel Packages and Profits
We are all well aware of the benefits of hotel packages. Think about it- have you ever booked a hotel purely on the strength and nature of its promoted offers? […]
Revenue Managers Look Beyond Industry For Inspiration
Hotel revenue management is an evolving discipline, and as part of that evolution, revenue managers are looking beyond the hotel industry to see how others are doing it and figuring […]
Latest Trends in The Fast Changing World of Revenue Management
Recently, Travel Tripper, IDeaS, and OTA Insight joined forces to host roundtable discussions on current trends in the fast changing world of revenue management. Meeting in Orlando and Miami, the […]
How Facebook and Google Are Changing the Travel Industry
Emerging technologies are changing not just how travel brands do business but also when they do it. After years of intense focus on the moment of conversion, travel companies are […]
Why Average Joe Should Never Use an OTA. And Why He Will Never Stop Using Them!
With two large shortcomings I can’t see why the average person who has a basic understanding of how the travel world works would ever use an online travel agency. NB: […]
The Evolution Of Online Travel Distribution & Its Impact On Hotels
It’s easy to forget that we didn’t always complete bookings via the internet. Before the advent of online check-in and price comparison sites, airline tickets and hotel reservations usually involved […]
Why a Revenue Manager should be a Profit Manager
Back in the bad old days when I first started in revenue, the discipline was called Yield Management. In those not-so-distant days we were seen as just yielding rates. Moving rates up and down with demand along with an ongoing battle that was occupancy versus rate.
7 Top Trends in Hotel Distribution Today
The landscape of hotel distribution is constantly evolving. With technology advancing at a bombarding speed and the traveller behaviour undergoing a massive shift, hotel distribution has started to play an […]
