What Airbnb’s App Can Tell Us About Travel Messaging
In the past few months — perhaps even years — much has been made of Airbnb’s impact on the hospitality industry. Between 2010 and 2015, the number of travelers who […]
How (and When) to Respond to Positive Hotel Reviews
When asked about review responses, we used to recommend that hoteliers respond to as many reviews as they can, within their own time and resource constraints. However, the results of […]
U.S. Hotel Revenue Growth Driven by Lower Chain Scales and Secondary Markets
U.S. hotels enjoyed another year of life at the performance peak in 2016 and are forecast to continue to live the high life in 2017. According to the recently released […]
How to Craft Compelling Hotel Website Content
In this month’s webinar, we were joined by Sarah Kennedy Ellis, VP Global Marketing at Sabre, and Allyson Ladley Gibson, Innkeeper at The Inn at Kitchen Kettle Village, for […]
Attribution Models: The Secret Ways Guests Discover Your Hotel
As digital marketing gets more sophisticated, the topic of attribution models has come up over and over in conversations with clients: every hotel wants to know what, where and how […]
Key Strategies to Shift Bookings from OTAs to Direct
As OTAs increasingly use aggressive marketing techniques, hoteliers are at risk of losing a significant share of their total reservations to third parties. NB: This is an article from Milestone […]
Enough Room for Everyone? How Hotels are Meeting the Airbnb Challenge
Everybody has a place to live. And thanks to Airbnb and other rent-by-owner sites, everybody can turn their spare room into a moneymaking short-term rental. In the taxi industry, this […]
U.S. Hotels Could Face RevPar Pressures in 2017
“I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s sort of a schizophrenic year,” PwC’s hospitality industry leader Scott Berman said, referencing the unpredictable U.S. political climate, as well as economic factors. “There’s […]
The (ongoing) trouble with travel distribution: Customer experience
The industry’s rapid evolution continues unabated. To profit through this turbulence, leaders must focus on what really matters—the customer. The landscape of travel distribution has been shifting. Until the mid-1990s, […]
How to Build Success with Metasearch Campaigns
The most attractive feature of metasearch is how it helps generate direct-bookings. It enables hoteliers like you to develop long term customer relationship achieve better customer retention and future sales. […]
