technology
Proven Hacks for Hotels to Capitalize on OTAs
The Battle against OTAs isn’t just fought at the traveler’s booking stage. In this highly competitive market, hotels much deliver exceptional service if they are to succeed. OTAs are an […]
The Science Behind Increasing Direct Bookings
With the ever-growing importance of the direct booking channel and the increasingly complicated path-to-purchase behavior of the multi-channel and multi-device travel consumer, today’s hotel website can simply no longer afford […]
Massive mobile expansion planned in travel over next three years
Mobile marketing offers unrivalled growth opportunities for the travel industry, outstripping potential returns from investments in digital marketing, social media and artificial intelligence According to a survey of 183 European […]
Create Epic Hotel Marketing Content with Limited Time & Resources
The quest to create epic content is real, my friends, and it is reaching mythic levels. Everyday, SEOs write, speak, and share content about the correlation between dynamite landing pages […]
Social Media is great! Isn’t it? How to alienate guests digitally
Social media is great, isn’t it? Just go online and you’ll see that everybody is instbookingpingtweetingsnapping virtually 24/7/365. Hotels, of course, are heavily involved, and not an hour goes by […]
BookingSuite: A Lesson in Direct Revenue Strategy
Throughout my career in revenue optimization for the hospitality and travel industry, I have always stressed the importance of owning your digital assets. This means having control of your domain, […]
Possum and Penguin: Hotelier’s Guide to Google’s Algorithm Updates
NB: This is an article from HeBSdigital The realm of organic search saw a very busy September marked by not just one, but two Google algorithm updates. First, on September […]
Expedia Begins Revealing Its Big Ambitions in Hotel Services
Expedia Inc. is in the process of introducing globally a new way for hoteliers to promote ancillary services such as discounted spa treatments, loyalty points or free parking on brands […]
How Google’s new Extended Text AdWords can boost your performance
It’s no secret that consumers start their holidays online or on mobile. New research shows that for millennials it’s as many as half using their mobile to research and buy […]
Book on Google: What it means for hotels
Google has strongly burst onto the hotel-transaction scene via its Book on Google (BoG) interface, awakening plenty of curiosity and questions about the real interest Google has with this movement. […]