The new frontiers of hotel revenue management
If the person at your hotel in charge of room booking is singularly focused on top line revenue, there’s a chance you’re missing out on bottom line profit. As booking […]
Technology. Making Digital Marketing Better.
Henry Ford said, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” So then why continue to manage online marketing the “old fashioned way” […]
4 ways to drive mobile engagement
With new mobile technologies and platforms emerging every day, businesses are faced with the constant question: Are we using all possible mobile marketing capabilities effectively? Chances are, not as much […]
How doubling programmatic spend can boost marketing ROI
A Contexxt executive at the MMA Mobile Automation and Programmatic Leadership Forum stressed the need for marketers to pivot their programmatic spend toward millennials and invest more heavily in […]
Travel and the chat bots
With Facebook making headlines this week as it launches ‘ Bots on Messenger ’ where does the travel industry stand? Pamela Whitby takes a look ‘The chat bots are coming’, […]
Hotel technology neglects design thinking at its peril
NB: This is a guest viewpoint by Stefan Tweraser, CEO of SnapShot. When you venture into the back-of-the-house in a hotel, it’s surprising to encounter a battlefield of broken furniture, […]
Lennert De Jong on Predictive Analytics for Hotels
NB: This is an article from SnapShot It seems like a common point of discussion nowadays: big data’s growing importance in the hospitality industry. And the opportunities it affords hoteliers […]
Starwood taking hotel reservations from Instagram
Everyone wants to use Instagram for sales, and Starwood is hacking it to drive reservations. The hotel chain’s Tribute Portfolio brand is partnering with shopping platform LiketoKnow.it to let users […]
Bots create huge customer service opportunity for airlines
Microsoft and Facebook have launched the “Bot Framework” and “Bot Engine” respectively, which lay the foundations for companies to use services like Skype and Messenger as rich customer-centric conversation platforms. […]
Fashion brands embrace bots as modern concierges
High-end fashion brands are turning to Facebook Messenger as their modern concierges. At Facebook’s F8 developer conference on Tuesday, the company announced the launch of its chatbot tool, opening it […]
