Hotels

Airbnb and instant booking: A recipe for market domination

Airbnb knows how to make waves in the accommodations booking industry. Over the last few years, the San Francisco-based company has taken major market space away from more conventional hotel […]

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Business Travelers Are Still Going Rogue With Hotel Bookings

A recent study* by Egencia®, the business travel arm of the Expedia group, found that despite the wide use of travel policies worldwide, “rogue booking”, the practice of business travelers […]

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Buying Facebook Likes for your hotel: good or bad idea?

With its growing influence in the travel space, hotel marketers understand the immense value of earning a legion of “Likes” on their Facebook page. This iconic symbol represents the new […]

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Most Important Question Your Reservations Sales Agents Should Ask?

In the quest for online bookings and more direct business, some hotels have relegated their reservation sales team to people who take orders. They’re serving as mere extension of website […]

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Breakage vs Engagement: The Financial Question for Loyalty Programs

To help understand the challenges that loyalty programs face when trying to optimize the tradeoff between breakage and engagement, we spoke with Len Llaguno, Founder and CEO of SnapShotML, a […]

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How Hotel companies can experience ROI uplift with micro marketing

It’s no secret — the process of building out your 2018 business plan and marketing strategy can, more often than not, feel like gambling. Are you going to wager all […]

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12 Components You Need on Your Website to Drive More Bookings

The internet has leveled the playing field in the hospitality industry. It’s no longer big guys vs. big guys and little guys vs. little guys – instead, everyone is competing […]

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Top 8 Ways to increase occupancy for hotels near airport

People travel for different reasons – it could be leisure travel, a business trip or a solo travel. Reaching a new destination always has its set of worries despite the […]

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TripAdvisor Teams Up with Snapchat for the Release of Context Cards

Snapchat has grown a lot in its six-year history. From selfies and flower crown filters to spectacles and geolocations, the company reports 173 million active daily users that post three […]

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Does Your Hotel Marketing Sit On A Throne Of Lies?

You are glowing; ecstatic; enamored. Why? You just dropped several grand on an immaculate new hotel website and cannot wait to hit the ground running. This new website is going […]

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