Hotels

This Is How Hotels Could Win the Direct Booking Wars

Can hotels win the direct booking wars? Or are the online travel agencies (OTAs) like Booking.com and Expedia just too big to fail? Those are two questions no doubt weighing […]

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Buying Your Way to the Top of Online Travel Agencies

Ranking on the first page of Google’s results has become an increasingly difficult task over the last few years. With competitor sites, third party vendors, and algorithms to worry about […]

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IHG Rewards shifting growth to direct from OTAs

InterContinental Hotel Group‘s half-yearly results have a couple of asides around its tech and digital performance among the details around signings and pipelines, currency fluctuations and medium-term per annum capex […]

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Inspire true hotel loyalty by making your programme stand out

A recent survey commissioned by Choice Hotels International showed that almost two-thirds (61%) of travellers find loyalty programmes and points do impact their choice of vacation spots. Knowing that loyalty […]

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Independents’ day; chain hotels losing appeal

Reading the industry press over the past couple of months, I could not help but notice all the upheaval and the mergers and acquisitions activity at the big hotels chains. […]

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Loyalty programmes the three keys to success

Being loyal pays – at least, for hotels. About 18% of frequent travelers will choose a hotel brand based on its loyalty program. And once they’re loyal, they’re gems. The […]

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It’s All About The Pricing Algorithm

There are many, many components of a successfully integrated and automated Revenue Strategy system, each of which must work together to achieve optimal results. Often times the most critical things […]

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Is Your Hotel Getting the Best Ranking on TripAdvisor?

NB: This is an article from nSight It is not big news that online travel websites are influencing what consumers see online. What is news is that hotels can increase […]

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How to Optimize Hotel Images for SEO

We all know that high-quality images are important in telling your property’s story, and grabbing the attention of travel shoppers as soon as they hit your website. Images are an incredibly […]

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How OTAs are dimming results on hotel searches

At first, to Christine Compo-Martin, the Expedia.com search results looked like a mistake. As she queried the site for a hotel room in Philadelphia, she found properties without photos. “Honestly, […]

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