online

Hotels handed power to the OTAs once before. Resetting the distribution relationship to a fairer balance is within each hotel’s grasp

Property Promotion Ads are a great way to boost direct hotel sales as they help gain visibility and access new demand and, therefore, more bookings

Recovery timing and booking volume will vary based on business-specific factors, like hotel locations and property types, so act on your own data

Developing workable marketing strategies for your hotel business is a challenge, but we have seven strategies you can utilize to encourage direct bookings

Even through this period of uncertainty the GDS has consistently remained one of the highest ADR channels. And travel agents have some excellent reasons to keep booking hotels through these

Whilst the hospitality industry has seemingly stepped back from digital marketing efforts, Google is moving along with updates to their search algorithms.

Using the downtime now to rethink your distribution strategy and direct sales channels to optimize your direct bookings is a good plan in any case

While consumer expectations and confidence will be a big driver of mid-to-late recovery trends, the first signals leading to initial demand growth will be policy change

As we start to see search volume increase for hotel terms and governments relaxing stay at home orders in the next few weeks, pent up travel demand will evolve into bookings

As we look forward to the rest of May, we can expect an increase in hotel searches. While we can prepare for increased volume, we expect the highest demand increase to be for domestic searches