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How to Tailor Your Messaging to Reflect Your Hotel Brand Image

Apply these personalization and design strategies to grow your direct booking channel while ensuring that your hotel website stays true to your brand image

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The Power of Integrating AI into Your Hotel’s Call Center

While AI is not designed to replace your entire call center, it can significantly allow those employees to give full attention to more complex reservations

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Direct Pre-Authorizations Can Boost Hotel Revenue Starting Today

Pre-authorizations are an indispensable way to preserve cash flow as they protect hotels from losses like late cancellations, chargebacks and no shows

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6 Forecasting Tips to Handle Uncertainty in the Hotel Industry

Forecasting has always been valuable for revenue managers. Given current uncertainty, it is so important to be able to predict and adapt to demand

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5 Technology Trends Changing The Hotel Guest Experience

The guest experience is the sum total of a guest’s interactions with a property and its team members throughout the guest journey

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The Situation of Revenue Management in The Hotel Industry

Where there is no revenue management strategy there is no knowledge about the customer, price, positioning and target audience

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Net ADR: The Most Important KPI You Should Pay Attention To

A rigorous net ADR analysis, that also takes into account discounts and all types of costs, is a core competency every revenue manager should have

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5 Reasons You Must Have Hotel Technology In Your 2023 Budget

Investing in hotel technology may not be the answer to all of your problems, but the forward thinking hotelier will be adopting tech in the right places

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Japanese Return to Travel: Strong Demand But Little For Europe

The data testifies to a great upturn in Japanese travel demand, but for now we should still wait before seeing them embrace the streets of European cities

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blocks being stacked in the same way independent hotels should focus more on increasing ancillary revenue

How to Build Optimal OTA Mix in a Dynamic Distribution Environment

To build an effective distribution strategy your OTA mix should include a minimum of 6 channels made up of the following types of OTAs:

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