digital

Digitalisation of hotels to keep guests coming back

  NB: This is an article by Anton Schubert, head of design at Futurice One of the most talked about announcements in the British Chancellor’s Budget last month was the […]

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Half a Billion Dollars in Direct Hotel Room Revenue

  NB: This is an article by Tim Sullivan, President of Cendyn/ONE Leveraging over 120 million CRM Guest Profiles representing 35 billion unique data elements, Cendyn/ONE delivered 1.2 billion personalized […]

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Travel Image SEO to Get More Google Image Search Traffic

Do photos of your hotel or tours generate love-at-first-sight bookings? Image search engine optimization is how you get found by travelers who search for hotels, vacation packages, and adventure tours using Google […]

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Were reaching the tipping point in mobile commerce

  Think people don’t convert when they receive email on a mobile phone? Think again, advises columnist Jason Warnock, and he’s got the stats to back up his contention. Have […]

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Report finds smartphone bookings ‘not popular’

  Consumers don’t like booking holidays on a smartphone. That is the conclusion of leisure market analyst Mintel in its most up-to-date review of the UK holiday market. Holiday bookings […]

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Travellers start picking brands based on mobile services

  A study has found that one in five travellers would always pick a travel brand over another if it meant they could have a better mobile experience. The analysis […]

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The Painful Truth About Hotel Website SEO

  NB: This is an article from Tambourine You are a Director of Sales and Marketing overseeing all day-to-day activities for your property, maybe several properties, from meeting/group sales to […]

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Why Airbnb Won’t Be Great at Selling Hotel Rooms

  Investors have been consumed with the notion that Airbnb is gunning for the online travel agencies and that it will eventually turn from apartment rentals to hotels and steal […]

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3 emerging trends for digital marketers with an eye on APAC

Brand campaigns and technologies like programmatic may be less mature in the Asia Pacific, and to promote them you need a mascot! 1. Brand marketing needs more focus than direct […]

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Airlines: Don’t crowd the inbox

  Ancillary revenue guru IdeaWorks has taken a detailed look at six airlines post-booking email marketing efforts and suggests that “simplicity can be a virtue”. Last December it made one-way […]

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