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How Your Guest Data Platform Becomes Your Direct Booking Platform

This explains the benefit of a Guest Data Platform in relation to your new customer acquisition strategy and how it can strengthen a direct booking strategy

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Thoughts to Drive Hotel Direct Bookings Both Now and Future

Michael talks about how the hotel sector should be leveraging the direct booking desire and also outlines 3 digital marketing trends hoteliers consider

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How to Build a Great Hotel Website & Improve Conversions

A good hotel website will have several key functions that lead to conversions, customer satisfaction, and brand loyalty. We outline the main objectives:

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Benchmark Your Hotel Booking Engine Performance

Searcher conversion rate measures a booking engine’s success, whereas user conversion rate measures combined performance of your website and booking engine

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10 Direct Channel KPIs Every Hotelier Needs

Data analytics can help understand direct channel performance, but true value comes from comparing your brand to the market and identifying growth potential

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Why Book Direct is Better for Everyone

The book direct channel was second top revenue maker for Irish and UK hotels in 2021. This highlights the need guests have for a direct hotel relationship

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Mobile Bookings – How can Hotels capture the Demand?

If there is one thing hoteliers have gained over the past 2 years, it’s the rise in hotel direct bookings, and more specifically, mobile direct bookings

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Hotels Must Evolve Fast – It Will Be a Tough Future Otherwise

We touch on a number of topics with a mood of optimism that travel will return, whilst realising hotels can be short-sighted and have short memories

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Increase Website Conversions by 71.9%: Charlottehaven Hotel Case Study

The hotel was looking for a tactic to retain people on the hotel website, and encourage weekday reservations

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Powerful Strategies to Drive and Convert More Bookings

Diving into your bookings and website activity, you can better understand what’s working, what’s not, and where you are losing potential guests

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