Hotels

What to Post: Ideas for Creating Engaging Hotel Social Media Content

Social media is an integral part of any marketing strategy. To stay competitive in today’s marketplace, you need to regularly post content that is engaging, entertaining, and informative. NB: This […]

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Digital Marketing Timeline for New Hotel Opening

A new hotel opening or changing of flags has so many moving parts. As an owner or manager overseeing this transition, you are likely wearing multiple hats. NB: This is […]

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MENA Hotels Challenged by Supply and Economic Concerns

Hotel profit plummeted in the Middle East & North Africa in January, as oversupply and struggling oil prices took a toll, sending GOPPAR to a 13.9-percent year-on-year decrease, according to […]

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How Can Your Independent Hotel Compete With Group Hotels?

Staying competitive is key to success. In the hotel industry, small independent hotels always have to compete with bigger brands or chain properties to attract guests, sell more rooms and […]

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With These Two Simple Steps, You Can Say: Metasearch, Managed!

Travelers love the metasearch channels; they pull all of the available prices from the different online sites into a single list of search results, easily sorted and easily booked. They […]

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Airbnb To Buy HotelTonight As It Pushes Deeper Into Hotel Booking

Airbnb wants to become the go-to place for anyone booking a trip—even if they want to stay in a hotel. The company, which built a business valued at $31 billion […]

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9 Key Elements for Benchmarking Your Hotel’s SEO Performance

Modern hotel marketers face many challenges in the digital space, like uncovering new keywords by looking at competitors, finding sound backlinks, and measuring the gap between their website performance and […]

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Challenging Start to 2019 for Hotels in Mainland Europe

Profit per room at hotels in mainland Europe fell by 9.1 percent year-over-year in January—the largest margin of decline in this measure since August 2016—as revenues dropped and costs escalated, […]

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Guest Personalization: What It Is and What It Is Not

Being in the field of hospitality training, it grabs my attention when I see the word “personalization” in a headline or the title of a conference session. NB: This is […]

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10 Hotel Digital Marketing KPIs

You don’t have to be a digital marketing expert to look at high level reports and find trends for your hotel. Briefly review monthly reports and start asking better questions […]

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