Hotels

12 Simple Tools to Make Your Hotel Marketing Easier

It’s the little things that often take the most time when it comes to hotel marketing. Once your team has a consensus on the best ways to drive direct bookings for […]

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Why Cancelling & Re-Booking is Killing Your Revenue

Why do guests cancel and re-book hotel reservations? Well, that’s easy: Because they can, and because it makes economic sense—people don’t want to spend more money than they have to.  […]

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Smart hotel marketers using marketing automation to increase revenue

Smart hotel marketers are using new, affordable marketing automation tools to close more group and meetings business. Marketing automation technology is one of the biggest advancements in the marketing world […]

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Hotel 101: Understanding RevPAR

Part three of our series exploring the basics of hotel operations brings us to the topic of RevPar. To fully maximize hotel performance, we use several specific terms including RevPAR, […]

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Facebook’s ambitions for travel planning and booking

There was a telling interview in Skift with Facebook’s Head of Travel, Christine Warner, that illustrates just how ambitious the company is getting about travel. Interestingly, Warner described Facebook as a […]

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Ensuring your hotel website is optimized for mobile

Ensuring that your hotel’s website is optimised for mobile search is essential if you don’t want to miss out on key traffic and potential bookings. Much has been said already […]

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7 ways to create a faster direct booking user experience at your hotel

Direct bookings at your hotel are vital to ensure your business remains profitable. Although you do have to rely on online travel agents, the more commission-free booking you can drive […]

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Adding non-traditional revenue streams for your hotel

New fees for guest bookings can help generate revenue for the hotel while offering assurances and options to guests who have special requests. Surely hotel revenue managers are doing everything […]

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Hotel 101: Understanding ADR

Part two of our three part series about the critical metrics we use in the hospitality industry explores ADR. We are going back to the basics to define terms used […]

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Hotels vs. the (OTA) World

Seven years ago, airlines – one in particular – were coming to blows with the OTA. American pulled out of Orbitz and Expedia rallied behind its competitor and booted the […]

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