technology

Analytics everywhere: Using what you know

IN a digital world, the winning organisations will be the ones that successfully find new customers, discover new markets, and pursue new revenue streams using digital channels. New, digital competitors […]

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Why Can’t We Still Book Specific Rooms in a Hotel?

Have you ever wondered why it is you can’t, in most cases, book the exact hotel room you want? You know, the room that’s not near the elevator, but close […]

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Cheapflights puts flight and hotel search into Messenger

More moves in the world of chat services, with news that Cheapflights will allow users to search for both flights and hotels within Facebook Messenger. The Momondo Group-owned metasearch engine […]

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How to Prepare Your Hotel for Marketing Automation

In hospitality, marketing automation is on the leading edge of industry technology. Despite years of 50 percent annual growth, marketing automation is still the new new thing for almost all […]

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5 Reasons Why a Travel Booking is Abandoned

The travel industry spends billions of dollars each year on digital marketing, yet 81% of online travel bookings are abandoned, according to a study by SalesCycle. In 2014, Boxever estimated […]

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Focus on Social Media: Missing the big picture

Facebook has become a place where many travel agents have successfully built a personal brand through posting photos of their travels and in many cases themselves. It has turned into […]

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Expedia’s first bot is for booking hotels

Expedia today unveiled a rather smart, rather simple little bot for Facebook Messenger. The bot is designed to do one thing and do it well: It helps travelers book hotels. What’s […]

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HotelSoft pushes revenue management tool

Hotelsoft claims to be a next generation, cloud-based software and services company, providing revenue management tools for hotels. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has a […]

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Five reasons your CRM isn’t actually increasing sales

A B2B technology report from Informatica revealed that 25% of marketers don’t know their lead conversion rates, largely because they don’t have the right CRM strategy, which limits sales growth […]

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Revenue Management: Decisions vs Recommendations

In today’s world of innovative technology, it’s interesting to think about the automated outputs of our industry’s revenue management systems. In fact, a recent conversation around a colleague’s experience with […]

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