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Driven by an increasingly fickle, demanding and connected customer the coming year will be one that sees the savviest and most strategic brands thrive. In 2016 – surprise, surprise – […]

  Airbnb analyzed the travel patterns of more than 40 million people that stayed in homes on Airbnb in 2015 and selected 16 neighborhoods that have gained the most momentum […]

    Some liken it to fulfilling what Admiral Zheng He, the great Chinese explorer, started in the 14th century when the eunuch mounted expeditionary voyages across the world, from […]

NB: This is an article by Jean Francois Mourier, CEO of REVPAR GURU As someone who has been working in the hotel industry for more than 13 years, I still […]

  When Airbnb first burst onto the tourism scene in 2008, offering people the chance to find cheaper-than-hotel accommodation in a number of cities, the millennials snapped it up. The […]

  NB: This is an article by Kelly McGuire, Executive Director Hospitality & Travel Global Practice at SAS 2015 was a busy year for Hoteliers. ADR, Occupancy and RevPAR achieved […]

  2015 witnessed heavy consolidation in the OTA space in China. So what needs to be done by hotels to balance out their distribution mix? The pace with which OTAs […]

  A German regulator has ordered Booking.com to remove all “best price” clauses from its contracts with hotel properties in the country. The Bundeskartellamt (BKA), the German Federal Cartel Office, says the […]

It wasn’t easy for hotel digital marketers in 2015 ………. and it’s not likely to get much easier in 2016!! With issues such as the growing power of online travel […]

  NB: This is an article by Patrick Bosworth, CEO and a co-founder of Duetto I read, with great interest, recent headlines declaring negotiation wins for Hilton Worldwide over online travel […]