Don’t Be Creepy: Best Practices When Using Guest Data
Consumers in today’s connected world are more frequently and freely sharing their personal information. Even the most ordinary tasks—posting a photo, writing a dinner review, checking in to a location […]
How Personalized is Your Hotel’s Digital Marketing Strategy?
Amazon’s personalization efforts aren’t exactly new — but they’re certainly noteworthy. For years, its product curation and recommendation algorithm has made headlines. Amazon knows if you’re a country music lover […]
Intelligent Revenue Strategies in a Big Data Driven World
IDeaS Advisory Services answers some of the commonly-asked questions from hotels across the globe. This article outlines the different ways today’s hotels can achieve intelligent revenue strategies in a Big […]
How Metasearch Empowers the Independent Hotelier
Since 2010, the hotel industry has seen huge growth and changes to the metasearch landscape; a combination of consumer and product growth. It’s evident that this rapid growth has disturbed […]
What marketers need to know about Google Attribution
Despite the fact that it has been a priority for years, attribution remains one of many marketers’ biggest challenges. Now, Google is trying to change that with the unveiling of […]
Demise of Billboard Effect Considerably Exaggerated
Consumer engagement trends continue to evolve, in turn changing how travelers interact with online resources during the path to purchase. For hoteliers, this has made it difficult to determine which […]
Improve Your Hotel’s Revenue Strategy with Proper Segmentation
Segmentation is a key feature in any hotel’s revenue strategy. To set an overall goal for the year, hotels must break down their target markets and approach to focus on […]
Redefining hotel guest loyalty with instant gratification
Guest loyalty programs, originally crafted to reward valuable guests with upgrades or special treatment, have now devolved into a pricing game. It started with OTAs offering discounted rates to loyalty […]
It’s time to question your revenue strategy
New hotels are breaking ground, renovating or reflagging in nearly every single market. Industry consolidation continues to fuel online behemoths like Booking.com and Expedia with no signs of stopping. A […]
Search Strategies to Protect Your Hotel Branded Keywords
When hotel marketers think about their SEO strategy, they usually think about what generic keywords they want to rank for. For example, “hotels in San Francisco.” But in the process, […]
