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Does Your Marketing Calendar Miss the Travel Planning Window?
Hotels must align their marketing campaigns and promotions to hit a booking timeline of one to three months to match today’s travel preferences
AI Didn’t Break Hotel Marketing. It Reveals Where Demand Starts
Organizations that influence traveler introduction earlier in the journey gain disproportionate marketing visibility within AI-mediated discovery
Top Tips for Taking Reservations at the Front Desk
Whilst 80 percent of guests say it’s important to complete their reservations online, that still leaves one in five who will book through offline methods
Exploring the Frontier of AI in the Hotel Industry (Part 2)
AI has well and truly entered the mainstream and for travellers it’s becoming just as essential as Google and TripAdvisor used to be
When AI Books the Room, Who Owns the Guest Relationship?
If the conversation becomes the storefront, and the storefront shapes the shortlist, who ultimately owns the guest relationship?
How Reputation Management Impacts Visibility and Bookings
If your reviews improve, your visibility improves. When your visibility improves, more travelers see and click on your property
Hidden Cost of OTAs: Chargebacks You Didn’t Sign Up For
When hotels partner with OTAs, they expect bookings, visibility and revenue. What they don’t expect is a stream of chargebacks that show up later
Predatory OTAs Are Hijacking Your Boutique Hotel Bookings
A growing network of predatory OTAs and rogue affiliates are aggressively bidding on boutique hotel brand names and siphoning off your most valuable guests
How to Stop Guests from Running Back to OTAs
The important question is not how to increase traffic. It is why so many guests hesitate at the final stage of decision-making on the hotel’s own website
Top 6 Booking Priorities for Today’s Leisure Traveler
The study reports that a hotel’s price, location, reviews, booking options, experiences, and sustainability are the top decision points for travelers
