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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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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