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Bleisure Trips & Workations: Hotel Positioning for Hybrid Travel Trends

Once you understand the mindset that drives hybrid travel experiences, the key is determining how to entice these guests to your hotel

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Your Hotel’s 2019 Performance Lays the Foundation for Your 2022 Forecast

Any hotel which maintained underlying principles of revenue management throughout the pandemic are stronger and poised for profit as travel ramps up

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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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5 Hotel Pricing Strategy Mistakes to Avoid

There are different pricing strategies hotels can apply to respond to market needs. But there are a few strategies hotels should avoid. Here are the top 5:

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Turn Sundays Into Fundays: 5 Creative Strategies to Drive Sunday Stays

We wanted to give you 5 inspiring ideas to market your Sunday night stays and boost direct reservations while helping guests deal with the Sunday scaries

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Don’t Be a Sheep: 5 Reasons Not to Follow Hotel Competitor Pricing

I have heard so many iterations of hotels justifying why they follow competitors pricing strategies. I have never fully understood or agreed with them

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Kick Start Social Media for Your Hotel in 2022

Hoteliers are short staffed and sometimes social media is last priority. What we have learnt these last 2 years is not to forget our transient guests

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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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Greece Showing Strong Summer Travel Demand

Travel intentions are strongly focused on the summer season: unlike Greece’s direct competitors, demand for the summer season is stronger than for spring

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Why the Way Hotels Forecast is Wrong and Outdated

Welcome to another of our Coffee Time chats. Today we talk about the way Hotels Forecast and why the current method is wrong and outdated

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