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Are Hotel Reward and Benefit Platforms Worth Investing In?

The sheer scale of the hotel industry means that hotels are in a constant battle for attention. In this increasingly competitive online booking space, they’re often forced to drive down […]

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Watchdog OTA crackdown is a timely reminder for independent hoteliers

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has taken online travel agents (OTAs) to task in the past week over how hotel rooms are displayed to customers, according to BBC News. […]

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How Google My Business Exploits the Hospitality Industry for Profit

The hospitality industry is being exploited by Google for their own profit. To be clear this article is not about regular search results where thousands of pages compete in an […]

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If Conversion is King, Make Optimising the Booking Experience Your Focus

The two Cs that are often referred to in e-commerce are content and conversion, we may put them together and say: Good content that leads to conversion is king. For […]

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Mapping Personalization to Profits in The Guest Journey

Through the guest journey, travelers interact with a myriad of different systems, but historically, those systems would not talk to each other. Each system would hold a sliver of information […]

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Leverage Your CRS to Improve Direct Booking and Boost RevPAR

One of the best – and worst – things about the hospitality industry is how much most hotels have in common, they’re offering relatively similar products and have a great […]

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Drive Traffic to Your Website from Pinterest with Alt Text

For hoteliers trying to reach travel planners, Pinterest is one of the best social media websites to have a presence. 28% of daily users say that Pinterest is their go-to […]

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Hotel Booking Sites Must Review How They Rank And Display Rooms

Hotel booking sites must review the way they rank and display rooms, the UK’s competition watchdog has said. Some sites may be making misleading claims about discounts, the Competition and […]

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Hotel Booking Data: Top 4 Web Conversion Metrics You Need

Even after you have worked hard on search engine optimisation (SEO) at your hotel, you must run periodic analysis to track improvements. But with so much data available when analysing […]

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You Need to be Aware of The Facebook Path to Purchase at Your B&B

In the B&B industry, there’s a lot of talk about the online booking journey and what steps you can take to improve direct booking conversions through your website. NB: This […]

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