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Revenue Management – Looking Towards A Challenging Winter…

It is time to determine how we will achieve top line budget goals whilst keeping bottom line costs in check. Revenue Management strategy plays a key role

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Hotel Digital Marketing Performance: Defining Success in The New Market

Each side of the coin uses different attribution models and KPIs to measure digital marketing performance. It is not as cut and dry as one may think

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Where is Real Innovation in Hotels Happening? Digital Guest Engagement

The hotel industry has a longstanding reputation for slow technological adoption. This can be seen in the adoption of digital guest engagement solutions

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London Sees 40% Uplift in Hotel Website Conversion Rates

Despite decreasing during summer months, hotel website conversion rates in the UK & Ireland started to recover in September – uplift was higher in London

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6 Steps to build an effective distribution strategy

Too often we see revenue management teams set rates and forget about them and fail to monitor how their inventory is performing across distribution channels

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Let Us Be Clear Revenue Managers Do Not Create Demand

Connor outlines what he feels are some misconceptions of where Revenue Managers sit in the demand equation and what they are ultimately responsible for

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Booking.com Introduces “Native Ads”

This is probably the most interesting part, as native ads are mostly intended for destination searches (“hotels in Boston”) and not branded searches

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What Black Friday 2021 Has In Store For Hoteliers

Last year, we published a Black Friday report showing impact on hotel bookings. We saw a 47% jump in campaign conversions and 58% increase in direct revenue

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Marketing Audit: Not Exciting But Crucial To Your Budget

The ideology around the digital marketing budget needs to evolve, rather than asking the question “how much am I going to spend” we should be asking this

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How To Budget Plan Amidst Uncertainty

With historical forecasts irrelevant, it can be useful to do “budget sprints” or shorter budgeting windows better suited to respond to dynamic situations

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