technology

Hoteliers envision similar industry technology in 2020 as ten years ago

While hoteliers anticipate highly-sophisticated and ‘digital native’ hotel guests in 2020, their plans for industry technology remain stuck in the early 2000s. This is the startling research finding from ‘The […]

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4 Tips for Facebook’s Dynamic Ads for Travel

In our previous blog post, we highlighted the main differences between Dynamic Ads for Travel (DAT) and Dynamic Product Ads (DPA). Put simply, Dynamic Ads for Travel (DAT) is essentially Dynamic […]

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Ways Chatbots Could Change the Hotel Industry.

Chatbots are already working hard in the hospitality industry, from taking fast food orders to helping travelers plan their trips. While conversational AI is very much in its infancy in the hotel sector, […]

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2017 travel trends and hotel industry opportunities

The pace of innovation across every industry and every company is astounding today, from natural language processing and data sciences to artificial intelligence and virtual reality. How exactly these mega […]

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Oracle Identifies Drivers for Consumer Loyalty and Impact of Technology Guest Experience

Today Oracle announced the findings of two research initiatives aimed at identifying the consumer drivers for loyalty in the food and beverage and hotel industries and the impact of technology […]

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How to Create a Strong Search Strategy for your Hotel

A strong search strategy is crucial for driving direct bookings to your website. The vast majority of online experiences begin with a search engine, so the risk of a poor […]

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Harnessing the power of cloud and mobile hotel PMS

What triggered the mass movement towards cloud hotel PMS? Hoteliers have new goals to achieve today and the solutions don’t hide in a server room. Cloud hotel PMS software has […]

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Feature Disparity in Google’s Hotel Search

In recent months, Google has added new filtering options for the two main ways users interact with a Hotel Ads, localuniversal (the knowledge panel in organic search) and mapresults (Google […]

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Are You Driving Social Media Traffic To Your Website?

By now, virtually all hotels have at least one social media channel that they use – most likely Facebook. They might also use some others; Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat being […]

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6 hotel booking trends we’re watching in 2017

The travel industry has some major changes ahead of it. Virtual reality marketing, voice-controlled travel booking, and the growing ambitions of brands such as Google and Facebook all look set […]

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