Half of online travel searches end at price screen

More than 50% of online travel searches are abandoned when the shopper reaches the price screen, a new study has revealed. In response to the finding that 81% of online […]

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Effective Front Desk Upselling Increases Online Reputation by 25%

Implementing effective upselling methodology into a hotel’s front desk protocol has long been demonstrated to have a substantially positive and immediate effect on property revenues. Also considered a subsequent result […]

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It’s really about value, not price!

There’s an old marketing saying; “To live by price, is to die by price.” Quite simply, this means; if you’re relying solely on discounting to be your strategy to attract […]

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Are Hotels ready for the Millennial spenders

By 2020 or sooner, millennials might dominate the travel demographic. Hoteliers need to understand the nuances of this group of guests and be prepared with product and services that meet […]

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Deep Discounting Doesn’t Work

Black Friday is a day filled with discounts on every product imaginable and for days beforehand, serious bargain-hunters are strategically planning their “plans of attack”. This past Black Friday, which […]

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End of Rate Parity? Booking.com open the door

Online travel agent booking.com has offered to scrap a practice which prevents hotels from giving discounts to its rivals, in a bid to end investigations by competition authorities in France, Sweden […]

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Air trends and ticket pricing for the year ahead

Expedia, in partnership with the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), has released a new white paper, Preparing for Take-Off: Air Travel Trends 2015, that analyzes a comprehensive set of global air travel […]

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Searching for Blue Oceans in Pricing

Crisis times demand switch in pricing strategy towards less ‘discount-based’ and more ‘value-based’ one; The key to maintaining the levels of occupancy in crisis time is to retain your target […]

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Inspired by Airlines, Hotels Increase Fees

In recent years, the airline industry has generated billions in revenue by charging fees on top of base fares. Now the hotel industry seems to be having the same idea. […]

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Is it time to standardize hotel revenues?

Hoteliers around the world have come full circle in the last two decades, from guarding hotel information and data as if their lives depended on it, to understanding the benefits […]

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