The digital world is a noisy place: People are bombarded with tons of content and messages every second – from online ads to blog posts and user-generated content, among other […]

When investing in hotels, recent year-over-year trends in revenues and profits, along with current performance values, are two of the metrics most frequently evaluated. Investors need to balance the current […]

Being in the business of hotel sales training, most months I spend at least six to eight days training hotel sales managers and also reservations sales agents on how to […]

Years before big data exploded into something like a phenomenon, hotels were already incorporating industry data into their revenue technologies and strategies. NB: This is an article from IDeaS But […]

Though the hotel industry as a whole has been aware of it for a while, rate mixing or ‘blending’ continues to be an area in which OTAs outstrip their hotel […]

Last month, Instagram announced new action buttons that will allow users to book a hotel room directly within the app. Users can now ‘Book’, ‘Reserve’, ‘Get Tickets’, or ‘Start Order’. […]

While OTAs have long been a dominant source of indirect hotel bookings, metasearch sites like Kayak, Trivago, TripAdvisor, and Google have recently become much more relevant in hotel marketing and […]

Would you go on a diet without knowing or controlling your weight and without using scales? Then why, as a professional, do you want to boost your direct sales without […]

Revenue management is a crucial part of any business and plays a significant role in how hoteliers best position themselves to maximize total hotel profit. NB: This is an article […]

Travellers are increasingly turning to their phones to plan and book – more than 40% of them. What are you doing to capitalise on this trend? Here are some ways […]