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Optimize Your Hotel’s Facebook Page to Drive More Direct Bookings

Facebook continues to dominate as the world’s largest social network. In June 2017, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Facebook community had reached 2 billion users! User engagement is also growing. The […]

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Are all hotel booking engines made equal?

For many hotels, choosing the right booking engine often comes down to price. Rather than investing in the best product, the CRS vendor offering the cheapest deal can seem like […]

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Is Facebook the Next Google? Facebook’s Search Functionality Explained

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade, you’re likely familiar with Facebook. Since its inception in 2004, Facebook has grown in to a cultural and financial […]

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How a Vanity Hotel Website Can Complement Your Marketing Efforts

Roughly two thirds of all hotels in the United States are chain affiliated. Being part of a chain offers many advantages to hotel owners; name recognition, access to established loyalty […]

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Create a Revenue Centric Culture in your Hotel by Integrating Technology

In the previous part of this blog series, we discussed Guest Sentiment and your Online Presence. In the 3rd and final part of the blog series, Building a Revenue Centric […]

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Revenue Managers job will change but not eliminated by AI

With buzzwords of machine learning and AI gaining mainstream attention we hear a lot of different viewpoints from the revenue management community. Some embrace the future at hand, others are […]

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Smarter Hotel Email Automation & Personalization

The marketing mix is becoming more and more complex with new opportunities and tools constantly becoming available to hoteliers. Unfortunately, the days are not getting longer so automation and smarter […]

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Is Facebook Still a Relevant Platform for Hotel Social Media Marketing?

Most social marketers still consider Facebook their most valuable hotel social media platform and it shows by the amount of ad revenue poured into the platform. 2017 ad revenue for […]

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Revenue management technology – a low, mid or high-tech approach?

Revenue management technology – a low, mid or high-tech approach?

Taking a walk through the E-travel halls of the major industry fairs like ITB in Berlin or WTM in London and seeing all the technology options available leaves many hoteliers […]

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TechTrends: Top trends in hotel distribution

One of the most globally talked about topics is the changing hotel distribution landscape and the impact on hotels. This article looks at current trends in distribution, considering the past […]

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