Hotels

New hotel? Here’s how to use OTAs to drive future direct bookings

“If I was starting a hotel from scratch, I’d give all my distribution to OTAs and just concentrate on the guest and their experience.” That was the view announced by […]

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Selecting A Revenue Management solution? Ask the right questions!

Most hoteliers view revenue management as a strategic imperative, given the opportunity to improve the financial performance. That said, it is important to note that revenue management can take many […]

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Your Guests Booking Habits Are Changing, Yours Must Change Too

The only consistent aspect in the way people plan travel is that it’s constantly changing. Each decade brings new ways for customers to connect with the hospitality experience because of […]

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Facebook’s Head of Travel on Hotels Going Mobile

  If hotels aren’t paying enough attention to mobile right now, they’re missing out. That’s the primary message Facebook Head of Travel, Christine Warner, has for hotel brands. Warner recently […]

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Can Your Data Answer the 5 W’s of Storytelling and Improve Revenue Strategy?

  Every compelling story – a thrilling book, a coworker’s wild weekend recount, an upcoming blockbuster movie – contains some very familiar elements. Commonly referred to as the five w’s […]

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How to increase guest bookings when travellers don’t want to travel

Increasing traffic and increasing bookings is one of the biggest aims for any hotel, but in the United States, it’s becoming a real problem. America may be facing many challenges […]

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Expedia “Real-time Feedback” – what’s so special?

If there’s one subject that divides hoteliers, it’s TripAdvisor — don’t worry, though, that’s not what this column is about. Well, not mainly. Instead, I want to talk a little […]

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Eye tracking for Google hotel searches: Old rules no longer apply

When one of the first eye-tracking studies on Google search engine results pages (SERPs) came out in 2005, researchers from Mediative discovered that there was a distinct pattern to the way […]

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Hotel Sales: “Why Do Our Rates Change? We Discount When It’s Slower!”

Every day your hotel sales, reservations and front desk colleagues are fielding questions from both prospects and guests regarding why it is that the rates are so much higher during […]

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Identifying Right Types of Smart Data Critical to Revenue Management

Big data has been a starting player on the strategic revenue roster for years. In fact, years before big data exploded into something like a phenomenon, hotels were increasingly incorporating […]

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