Create loyalty in travel by tracking the competition

If you’re looking for customer loyalty, you won’t find much of it in the travel industry. While 74% of business travelers claim to prefer booking travel through one platform, only […]

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Airbnb: the vacation rental genie is out the bottle

The vacation rental business is currently worth $100bn but Airbnb is reportedly still not profitable, and the competition is growing. Cities may be fighting to restrict it, but the Airbnb […]

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The Metric (Most Hoteliers Ignore) That Can Significantly Impact Revenue

When most hoteliers consider their revenue management metrics, they most likely think about RevPAR, ADR and occupancy. Perhaps, they would also think about historical and current local demand. But for […]

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The Science Behind a High-Performing Hotel Website

Your hotel website should be your most profitable booking channel. If it’s not, then you may be focused on the wrong things. In our final webinar for 2016, we looked […]

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How Facebook Marketing Will Look in 2017

Change always comes thick and fast in this industry but 2016 has felt like a real turning point. All the tech giants are making big things happen as we move […]

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Why UGC is the future of social media in travel and tourism marketing

Relying on user generated content (UGC) in social media marketing can be a gamble. It can work if you have a great creative idea, a sizeable existing audience and a […]

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Hotel SEO Cheat Sheet: How to improve your Google rankings

Did you know that Google changes its search algorithm up to 600 times per year? Stats like this make it tough for any hotel business to keep up. Nobody ever […]

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Fashion To Fitness: Luxury Brands are Next Wave of Hospitality Disruption

The travel industry is continually facing disruption, which often provides great benefits for travelers and a path to fostering a culture of innovation and new business models. A current trend […]

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Three Steps to Revenue Management Performance Measurement

In the hospitality industry we have heard that “A revenue management program/system has the potential to increase revenue by 3 – 5%”. By revenue management system, we are talking about […]

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3 Dos & Dont’s : useful titbits for chatbots in travel

Conversational commerce (chatbots) may be in its infancy but now is the time understand how it fits into your digital strategy With social media came the dismantling of the wall […]

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