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Tracking Offline Interactions in Google Analytics

  The trouble with web analytics is the possibility of it telling you lots about your website but nothing about your business. A browser is not the same thing as […]

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Booking.com Profits From Bidding on Hotel Names

  Many cash-strapped independent hoteliers have been relatively laid back and allowed Booking.com to bid on their trademarked names and are even handing over their digital marketing and website creation […]

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Analyzing & Controlling Rates & Segments

  NB: This is an article from IDeaS The hospitality business climate is in a constant state of flux and no one is more familiar with the ups, downs and […]

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Understanding OTAs marketing strategies

  OTAs such as Expedia, Booking.com, Kayak and Hotels.com are prolific spenders on Google AdWords, regularly logging in the top fifty search engine marketers by spending an average of $67,250 […]

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Last-click attribution is so last year

  Multichannel attribution is hot topic for travel marketers. Tom Bacon shares three tips for getting it right As we all know, most travel planning has become more complex, less […]

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Data: The 3 Biggest Challenges for Hotels

  NB: This is an article from ALICE Too little of it…or too much. That’s the data paradox. In certain instances, like trying to understand employee productivity, there’s little data […]

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Mining Guest Data for Revenue Generation

  As hoteliers, we have massive amount of information about our guests. If only, we had the foresight to mine this data and use it smartly for revenue generation, we […]

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Keywords: Are They Really Dead? An Experiment

  A quantitative analysis of the claim that topics are more important than keywords. What’s more important: topics or keywords? This has been a major discussion point in SEO recently, […]

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Data suggests airports are wasting time with mobile apps

  NB: This is a viewpoint from Cormac Corrigan and Mark Lenahan, independent advisors to airports, airlines, retailers, and loyalty programs Airports are spending a significant portion of their marketing […]

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4 Strategies Used By GMs to Improve Online Reviews

  NB: This is an article by Alice. To General Managers, there might be no more important data than their guests’ reviews. While this may not seem like data to […]

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