What Hidden Instagram Likes Mean for Your Hotel

While Instagram is based on creativity and building communities, some content creators tend to focus on clickbait and misleading content rather than information that ui useful to their followers.

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3 Essential Tools to Boost Hotel Website Conversion Rate

By reducing friction throughout the booking process and providing a personalized website experience, hotel brands can significantly boost their conversion rate.

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Google to List Total Prices

Google has added taxes and fees to its hotel searches as part of a series of new features, allowing consumers to see both ‘nightly price’ and ‘nightly total’.

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7 Skills to Help You Close More Business at Your Hotel

So how can you leverage the psychology of selling to become a true group sales pro? These are the seven skills that will help you close more groups and events at your hotel

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How Independent Hotels Can Use Loyalty Programs to Attract More Customers

Loyalty may be a strong word for the relationship travelers have with their hotel. If a competitor offers flexible perks, personalized service and consistent delivery many travelers will be willing to have a go

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Four Key Trends the Hotel Industry Can’t Ignore During 2020

Now that we’re all back at work, attention is turning to the year ahead. I thought I would share my predictions for the main trends that will influence hotel chains’ success in 2020.

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Great Expectations – What a CFO Wants in a Forecast

A rock-solid forecast will make your finance leader happy, a good ally to have in the age of data. Not to mention it’s always wise to have the individual responsible for payroll on your side.

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Rooms & Rates: The Less, The Better

In Revenue, offering too many options, meaning too many rooms and rates, is the equivalent, in Marketing, of “marketing to everyone to market to no one”.

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Building a Successful Revenue Strategy For 2020

Strategy can be summarised in four boxes: supply, demand, own performance and relative performance (v competition). For each of these, you will have a lot of specific KPIs, data and metrics.

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Discordant Hotel Performance at UK Hotels Continues

In a tale that is becoming all too common for the region, RevPAR at UK hotels was up in November, but profit against the same time last year was negative

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