Hotels

When AI Books the Room, Who Owns the Guest Relationship?

If the conversation becomes the storefront, and the storefront shapes the shortlist, who ultimately owns the guest relationship?

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Break Even in High Cost World: Smarter Hotel Expense Strategies

The key to protecting margins while maintaining service quality is to move away from blanket cost-cutting toward precision optimization

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How to Get ChatGPT to Recommend Your Hotel

To ensure your hotel isn’t just visible but recommended by AI tools, you need to speak their language Here are 3 feasible strategies to align your hotel

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How Reputation Management Impacts Visibility and Bookings

If your reviews improve, your visibility improves. When your visibility improves, more travelers see and click on your property

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Hidden Cost of OTAs: Chargebacks You Didn’t Sign Up For

When hotels partner with OTAs, they expect bookings, visibility and revenue. What they don’t expect is a stream of chargebacks that show up later

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Predatory OTAs Are Hijacking Your Boutique Hotel Bookings

A growing network of predatory OTAs and rogue affiliates are aggressively bidding on boutique hotel brand names and siphoning off your most valuable guests

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Aligning Revenue, Operations and Guest Value to Forecast for Action

By shifting from a room-centric model to a guest-centric, total revenue model, we stop being historians and start being architects of what will happen

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Phone Calls Are “The Last Mile” of Hotel Distribution

How well is “the last mile” managed these days? What happens when the phone rings? Too often, websites hide phone numbers, making it difficult to even call

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How to Stop Guests from Running Back to OTAs

The important question is not how to increase traffic. It is why so many guests hesitate at the final stage of decision-making on the hotel’s own website

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Top 6 Booking Priorities for Today’s Leisure Traveler

The study reports that a hotel’s price, location, reviews, booking options, experiences, and sustainability are the top decision points for travelers

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