Expedia said Thursday that it will buy online booking rival Orbitz Worldwide for roughly $1.6 billion, cementing its place as the No. 1 digital travel provider while potentially disrupting the […]

It’s a familiar scenario – and as a former hotelier, I’ve seen it played out many times before. Across the hospitality sector, we’re trained to watch our competitors and react […]

Increased competition and transparency in today’s booking landscape is making effective management of inventory a high priority for today’s hotelier. In Part 1 we discussed three key aspects of creating […]

During the first few days of a new year, everyone is busy planning their personal new year’s resolutions. But although most of us spend the beginning of each year focused […]

Your hotel’s inventory is its greatest asset and represents a major part of your investment. That investment is tied up until rooms are sold, making the effective management of inventory […]

Real estate advisory Colliers International has launched its MENA Hotel Market Forecast, which predicts the performance of 29 submarkets across the region. Spanning 29 submarkets across the Middle East and […]

Tourism authorities in Dubai are expecting the emirate to add 20,000 more hotel rooms by 2016 and say it is on track to reach 155,000 rooms by 2020. According to The […]

More than 50% of online travel searches are abandoned when the shopper reaches the price screen, a new study has revealed. In response to the finding that 81% of online […]

Implementing effective upselling methodology into a hotel’s front desk protocol has long been demonstrated to have a substantially positive and immediate effect on property revenues. Also considered a subsequent result […]

There’s an old marketing saying; “To live by price, is to die by price.” Quite simply, this means; if you’re relying solely on discounting to be your strategy to attract […]