Hotels Have Made a Mess of Instagram, Let’s Clean It Up

The importance of your hotel’s Instagram page is growing in lockstep with the popularity of the social media platform. Rest assured, it is not just for millennials… Not only does […]

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Airbnb Can’t Go On Unregulated – It Does Too Much Damage to Cities

Barcelona is an extreme case, but certainly the law needs to catch up so Airbnb doesn’t price locals out of their community. Remember the “sharing economy”? That rhetoric looks more […]

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The No-Nonsense Guide to the GDS for Independent Hotels

Three letters which have remained something of a mystery for many hoteliers: ‘GDS’. NB: This is an article from Welcome Anywhere They stand for ‘Global Distribution System’, which is a […]

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Late Cycle Supply Sources of the Occupancy Gap

The present hotel cycle is defying conventional expectations of late-cycle Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR) behavior. Over the previous two cycles, recovery began primarily with occupancy. As the cycles continued, […]

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Key to Hotel Business Success: Tracking, Trends & Time

A study of 170 travel and hospitality executives revealed an area where their organizations were lacking was effective use of data. NB: This is an article from Rainmaker It can […]

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Top 5 Things Need to Know in Hotel Digital Marketing (October)

As Q4 begins and the holidays approach swiftly, it’s time for hotel marketers to kick their digital marketing into high gear. NB: This is an article from hebs digital From […]

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Millions of Opportunities to Engage Travelers in November

Every November, consumers fire up their devices and desktops to shop online and spend billions of dollars. Last year, 64 million people shopped online and in stores during the Black […]

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The Unlimited Hotel Data Sharing Plan

With all the talk of Big Data, we are only at the most embryonic stage of establishing the interconnected hotel. In the typical hotel company, department heads still act as […]

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How Hotels Can Compete in the Airbnb Landscape

Airbnb came on the scene in 2008, amidst corporate scandal, economic downturn and instability. Initially people were skeptical, but they have gained remarkable momentum building its platform with transparency and […]

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Can You Dare to Dream of Variable Capacity in RM?

In an environment where the whole basis for RM is optimal allocation of fixed capacity, is there another way? RM forecasts demand, no-shows and allocates seats. But what if the […]

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