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Offer Guests Mobile Rates And Enjoy Greater Conversions

Mobile Rates are specially discounted rates that are offered to guests browsing for hotel room reservations through a mobile app or a mobile browser

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How Can Independent Hotels Combat The Rise of OTAs?

There’s nothing wrong using OTAs and they can still be incredibly valuable and handy part of an overall selling strategy – they have their place in the mix

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Booking.com’s Shift to Merchant Model and How Hotels Can Compete

The first decision hotels should make is withdrawing from the “Payments by Booking.com” program. Our bet, however, is Booking will make it mandatory

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Optimizing Your OTA Profile for Killer Results

OTA reservations are, without a doubt, a lifeline for hotels. Use the following steps to get your strategy working efficiently and maximize your revenue

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How Often Are You Being Undercut On Metasearch?

What constitutes good parity health on metasearch? How often do direct prices tend to be undercut by OTAs on meta, and what benchmark should you aim for

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Are You Pricing Based On Your Competitor’s Actual Rates?

To effectively shape your pricing strategy and make informed rate decisions, you need to ensure you compare the true amount a customer will be paying

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A Quick Guide to Online Distribution for Independent Hotels

These days, the realm of hotel distribution has evolved with technology to span both the physical and digital worlds – with heavier reliance on the latter

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OTAs Spending Big to Lure Travelers This Summer

OTAs spending heavily on marketing to get more people to book flights and accommodation as they look to make the most of the upcoming summer season

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Bad Actor OTAs: How Hotels Can Protect Themselves

It can be a challenge, but by embracing rate parity monitoring tools hotels can maximize success while addressing the problems created by bad actor OTAs

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Truth Behind Parity Performance Affecting Conversion Rate

When the hotel direct price was higher than OTAs, conversion rate was 2.98%. When the direct price was same or lower, the conversion rate shot up to 4.66%

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