Are You Planning to Include a Payment Gateway in Direct Sales Channel?
The reactivation of the demand for hotels has led many hotels to seek information about what payment gateway to include into their direct sales
Comparing Cost Models in Metasearch: CPC vs CPA
Within each metasearch program, cost models can individually become more complicated. For simplicity’s sake, we will focus on CPC and CPA
3 Reasons Why Valuable Data, Not Cheap Deals, is Secret to Recovery
By using data to understand the real cost and impact of decisions, hotels are able to build a revenue strategy that optimizes net RevPAR and GOPPAR
5 Ways to Scale Your Hotel Upselling Efforts
As we start to rebuild and grow over the coming months, make sure to ‘build back better’ and return to your upselling initiative as we move forward
Deconstructing the Hotel Conversion Funnel
Each part of the funnel is a different hurdle in the booking process, not to mention the fact different traffic types enter the funnel at different points
A Hotelier’s Guide to the Psychology of Upselling
Basic principles of consumer psychology are highly scalable; they can be applied to almost any business to increase revenue, from start-up to corporations
How Much Are You Paying in OTA Commission and How to Reduce it?
Before you embark on a mission to reduce your OTA spend, calculate what your OTA commissions are. Assess for the value, not just volume, of bookings
The Yoga Of Change In Hotel Revenue Optimization
Now that we are experiencing guests returning to our hotels, what is changing within the revenue optimization field?
Restoring Your ADR Post Crisis
Re-building of ADR is much more correlated to the restoration of demand in the market and much less to do with the effect of price cutting during the crisis
2021 Shifts in Travel Behavior
While some travelers may go back to old ways, many will adopt a hybrid travel model, focusing more on regional drive markets or remote areas over urban