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What Booking.com Was Doing to Gain Market Share During Lockdown
We’re living in uncertain times never seen before in the sector, as well as a change in the paradigm of online shopping and Booking.com knows it

Europe Travel Hot Spots: Spain, Italy & Greece, with Turkey Close Behind
Analysis of flight search data makes it possible to study trends in tourist demand, the travel preferences of travellers and regions with highest demand

Are You Planning to Include a Payment Gateway in Direct Sales Channel?
The reactivation of the demand for hotels has led many hotels to seek information about what payment gateway to include into their direct sales

3 Reasons Why Valuable Data, Not Cheap Deals, is Secret to Recovery
By using data to understand the real cost and impact of decisions, hotels are able to build a revenue strategy that optimizes net RevPAR and GOPPAR

A Hotelier’s Guide to the Psychology of Upselling
Basic principles of consumer psychology are highly scalable; they can be applied to almost any business to increase revenue, from start-up to corporations

Restoring Your ADR Post Crisis
Re-building of ADR is much more correlated to the restoration of demand in the market and much less to do with the effect of price cutting during the crisis

What is Your Optimum Occupancy Percentage in This Staycation World?
Staycation is here to stay. Strong occupancy is here to stay but the question remains for us all… how much occupancy is too much?

How to Align Your Distribution and Marketing Strategies to Boost Revenue
Many hotels don’t include direct within their distribution cost calculations, but for most hotels their costs of direct are around 8%+ of distribution

How Hospitality is Adapting to a Contactless World
Contactless tech is here to stay, and we’ve already seen how it doesn’t need to be a barrier to good service – in fact, it can enrich a guest’s experience

How Phuket Sandbox Campaign is Impacting Hotel Booking Trends
We provide a summary of how this phuket sandbox campaign is impacting hotel booking trends and what factors to take into consideration when reopening