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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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