booking
Use Special Offers and Segmentation to Snag Bookings
Running a successful hotel, when you hit the bottom line, comes back to one thing: driving profitable bookings. Will that new carpet look good in pictures? Does your staff respond […]
OTA Customers – facts, trends and some surprises
Understanding how travellers behave is critical to our business, and this insight ensures our hotel partners can connect and engage with travellers today and in the future. The $1.4 trillion […]
BookingSuite: A Lesson in Direct Revenue Strategy
Throughout my career in revenue optimization for the hospitality and travel industry, I have always stressed the importance of owning your digital assets. This means having control of your domain, […]
Book on Google: What it means for hotels
Google has strongly burst onto the hotel-transaction scene via its Book on Google (BoG) interface, awakening plenty of curiosity and questions about the real interest Google has with this movement. […]
5 Ways to Boost Direct Bookings for Small Hotels
In the hotel room booking wars, online travel agencies (OTAs) seem to be giving up a little ground, and it’s a great opportunity for small, boutique and independent hotels. Hotels […]
Win Direct Bookings with Post-Stay Feedback
NB: This is an article from TrustYou We have already discussed how hotels can drive direct bookings during the search and booking and onsite experience phases of the guest journey. To […]
The battle of the bookings: How hotels can work with, not against OTAs
Online travel agents (OTAs) may not be the ‘necessary evil’ they are made out to be, industry experts have agreed ahead of two major hotel events, with many boasting a […]
5 Simple Steps to Boosting Your Website Conversion Rate
NB: This is an article from eMarketing Do you find your website generating a large volume of traffic but not yielding enough conversions? This is one of the greatest challenges […]
How Expedia converts visitors into customers: Part two
A few weeks ago eConsultancy published the first half of my in-depth look at how Expedia converts visitors into customers. Part one looked at traffic from organic search and direct […]
How to use Google’s ‘micro-moments’ during your booking process
Google recently revealed research that identifies how travellers experience ‘micro-moments’ online. These micro-moments are defined as a moment in time when a searcher relies on their smartphone or tablet device to […]