How the Millennial is shaping hospitality future
The Millennial traveller, defined by age as being born between 1980 and 2000, already makes up over one third of the world’s hotel guests, with predictions that they will […]
Why apps are worth the effort for travel
NB: This is an article by Jon Hudson, Criterio‘s Head of Mobile, Americas That consumer browsing and buying behaviour of travel is changing is now fact. In many places, […]
Mining Guest Data for Revenue Generation
As hoteliers, we have massive amount of information about our guests. If only, we had the foresight to mine this data and use it smartly for revenue generation, we […]
Keywords: Are They Really Dead? An Experiment
A quantitative analysis of the claim that topics are more important than keywords. What’s more important: topics or keywords? This has been a major discussion point in SEO recently, […]
Expedia tech to power dialogue between hotel and guest
Expedia has rolled out new technology for its hotel partners to enable to improve the engagement and dialogue they have with guests. Conversations is part of the Expedia PartnerCentral […]
Data suggests airports are wasting time with mobile apps
NB: This is a viewpoint from Cormac Corrigan and Mark Lenahan, independent advisors to airports, airlines, retailers, and loyalty programs Airports are spending a significant portion of their marketing […]
4 Strategies Used By GMs to Improve Online Reviews
NB: This is an article by Alice. To General Managers, there might be no more important data than their guests’ reviews. While this may not seem like data to […]
Microsoft brings bots to Skype for Hotel booking
Microsoft’s recently launched, A.I.-powered bot Tay may have embarrassed the company when Twitter users taught the machine how to be racist, but Microsoft hasn’t given up on the future of […]
LA is losing $41 million in taxes from AirBnB
If property owners who rent out homes and apartments on the popular home-sharing site Airbnb were to pay taxes as hotels do, the city of Los Angeles would collect an […]
Adapting To Hotel Booking Habits Of Millennials
Baby boomers were once the most coveted demographic group for the hotel industry, but in recent years millennials have become the largest age group in the US with one […]
