How To Reduce Direct Hotel Cancellations

Hotel cancellation terms are one of the major deciding factors for a guest making a booking. With OTAs promoting free cancellation as one of their major selling points consumers have […]

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Should ‘open pricing’ negate traditional contracted rates?

RFP season may have passed, but it won’t be too long before it descends on us again and perhaps now is the time to evaluate just how we contract – […]

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Improving Email Deliverability, Part 1: Dos and Don’ts

What is deliverability? It’s a way to measure the success of a message arriving in the recipient’s inbox as intended. Multiple aspects affect deliverability, such as campaign content, quality of […]

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Facebook is Changing! What Does This Mean For You?

Facebook plays a critical marketing role for most lodging operations (particularly independent ones), and they’ve recently announced some pretty significant changes that you should be ready for. In an attempt […]

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Why Airbnb is taking some lessons in hospitality from the hotel industry

The experience of staying in an Airbnb listing is simultaneously an argument for and against the platform. On the one hand, every space is unique and quirky; on the other […]

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How to encourage online reviews (and reasons why you should)

There are endless statistics that hammer home the importance of online reviews. Today, 85% of people are said to trust online reviews more than they do personal recommendations, while customers […]

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CRM: A Hotelier’s Guide, part 5 — How to maximize CRM

Over the course of the CRM: A Hotelier’s Guide blog series we’ve looked at what customer relationship management is, why it’s important, what it’s involved for hotels and its potential […]

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Hotels are Screwing Up Guest Engagement: How You Can Get it Right

You would think guest engagement is simple. They already like your brand enough to book a room. Now you just need to send them the right messages at the right […]

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How to compare hotel channel manager providers

  One of the most important pieces of technology for your hotel is a channel manager. Whether you’ve already invested in a channel management solution or are in the early […]

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Google AMP: Why Hoteliers Should Care, and How to Implement It

Introduced in 2016 as Google’s response to other mobile publishing platforms like Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles, Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages Project (AMP) is an open-source initiative enabling the […]

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