Hotels

Hospitality has always been a highly competitive industry, especially nowadays – with additional options from  Airbnb and similar companies. Therefore, hoteliers need to step up their game and engage with […]

Improvements in hotel technology have been enabling properties to think less about the behind the scenes processes and concentrate more on guests. Two years ago about a quarter of US […]

Airline loyalty programmes are often transactional but surprising and delighting guests might be more effective. As airlines revamp their loyalty programmes, typically replacing mileage-based credits with dollar-based credits, potentially they […]

Brand marketing is one of the most beneficial types of marketing your hotel can use. To the public, your hotel’s brand is your hotel’s identity. A strong brand is vital […]

Intelligent robot assistants were once just the stuff of science fiction, yet thanks to the likes of Siri, Cortana, and Google Home, they’re now commonplace. We’re used to seeing them […]

This year’s HSMAI Digital Marketing Strategy Conference carried the lofty theme “Optimizing the Digital Experience,” and for a full day the nearly 400 attendees packed into a Marriott Marquis ballroom […]

If there’s one thing that can complicate and disrupt the booking journey for hotels, it’s the ever-changing search landscape. With Google constantly updating its algorithms and strategy, traffic coming in […]

  Exponential pace. That phrase can be used to describe the growth and diversification of the hotel industry. Even though the market tends to focus on larger brands and the […]

The emergence of multi-sided technology platforms, collectively known as the “sharing economy”, has enabled individuals to collaboratively make use of under-utilized inventory via fee-based sharing. Consumers have so far enthusiastically […]

As North American hoteliers head into the spring season, new commitments that have been added over the last month (pace) are down -1.6 percent, and committed occupancy* for the first […]