Hotels
What Hoteliers Need to Know About Rate Parity
While technology has come a long way to help hoteliers manage today’s dynamic distribution landscape, rate parity remains a constant battle for revenue and distribution managers. NB: This is an […]
Loyalty Programs Not Just Changing in Terms of Scale
With pressure coming from OTAs, home-sharing platforms and an unprecedented level of brand proliferation, the global hospitality market has never been more competitive. As a result, earning customer loyalty has […]
Hotels Have Made a Mess of Instagram, Let’s Clean It Up
The importance of your hotel’s Instagram page is growing in lockstep with the popularity of the social media platform. Rest assured, it is not just for millennials… Not only does […]
Airbnb Can’t Go On Unregulated – It Does Too Much Damage to Cities
Barcelona is an extreme case, but certainly the law needs to catch up so Airbnb doesn’t price locals out of their community. Remember the “sharing economy”? That rhetoric looks more […]
The No-Nonsense Guide to the GDS for Independent Hotels
Three letters which have remained something of a mystery for many hoteliers: ‘GDS’. NB: This is an article from Welcome Anywhere They stand for ‘Global Distribution System’, which is a […]
Late Cycle Supply Sources of the Occupancy Gap
The present hotel cycle is defying conventional expectations of late-cycle Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR) behavior. Over the previous two cycles, recovery began primarily with occupancy. As the cycles continued, […]
Key to Hotel Business Success: Tracking, Trends & Time
A study of 170 travel and hospitality executives revealed an area where their organizations were lacking was effective use of data. NB: This is an article from Rainmaker It can […]
Top 5 Things Need to Know in Hotel Digital Marketing (October)
As Q4 begins and the holidays approach swiftly, it’s time for hotel marketers to kick their digital marketing into high gear. NB: This is an article from hebs digital From […]
The Unlimited Hotel Data Sharing Plan
With all the talk of Big Data, we are only at the most embryonic stage of establishing the interconnected hotel. In the typical hotel company, department heads still act as […]
How Hotels Can Compete in the Airbnb Landscape
Airbnb came on the scene in 2008, amidst corporate scandal, economic downturn and instability. Initially people were skeptical, but they have gained remarkable momentum building its platform with transparency and […]
