Business travellers split between traditional and alternative booking channels

  Figures from the GBTA Foundation show business travellers from the UK, Germany and France are fairly evenly split between booking via traditional channels and alternative methods. The study shows […]

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Hotel Contract Negotiations: Tougher Dealings, Softer Rates

The negotiating season for 2016 corporate hotel rates proved to be even more challenging than in previous years, but efforts paid off, as rate increases came in softer than forecast […]

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Hotel Marketing: dangers of duplicate content

NB: This is an article by Megan Harr, Senior Copy & SEO Specialist at HeBS Digital Defining Duplicate Web Content Even the most discerning digital marketing professionals and hoteliers need […]

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Dubai Tourism launches holiday home regulations

  Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) has revealed the Executive Resolution 3/2015 outlining detailed regulations for the emirate’s holiday home segment. This move aims to provide greater […]

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Travelport enjoys hotel booking role and payment IT growth

  Travelport hopes to strengthen its position as one of the leading hotel distributors after seeing its total number of booked room nights increased to 65 million in 2015. The company has […]

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Treat your hotel website like a beautiful store window

  NB: This is an article from SiteMinder, a leading cloud platform for hotels World-famous retailers such as Macy’s in New York and Harrods in London are renowned for their […]

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HomeAway tweaks its rental commissions, adds traveler fee

  This week HomeAway, the vacation rental platform, began rolling out a traveler fee to its US websites (HomeAway, VRBO, and VacationRentals.com), with a plan to introduce the fees globally […]

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Independent hotels in Europe must adapt to attract new guests in 2016

NB: This is an article by Dai Williams, Managing Director – EMEA, SiteMinder Independent hotels in Europe must find new ways to attract customers during 2016 in order to survive. […]

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Choice Hotels opens vacation rental platform to compete with Airbnb

  Making good on its promise from last month, Choice Hotels confirmed that it will start offering vacation rentals. Choice Hotels CEO Steve Joyce had hinted at the Americas Lodging […]

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A Guide to Hotel Data and Analytics

  NB: This is an article from Snapshot As hoteliers we don’t always consider data to be a fundamental tool in our daily operations. We’d rather focus on making our […]

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