Distribution Dilemmas, Rate Parity and Google ‘the Travel Company’
A day in the life of somebody dealing with hotel distribution involves fighting lot of fires. “I think distribution teams are becoming more like guardians for rate and inventory parity […]
Google Upgrades Holiday Travel Search, Offers Hotel Discounts
Google has enhanced its flight and hotel search capabilities ahead of the U.S. holiday travel season, while concurrently announcing that it has started offering exclusive hotel discounts to paying users […]
How Google Latest Experiments with Metasearch Could Impact Hotels
Just a few weeks ago, Google began testing a new hotel pricing and availability graph. This new feature shows average pricing for hotels when users carry out a branded hotel […]
How Facebook and Google Are Changing the Travel Industry
Emerging technologies are changing not just how travel brands do business but also when they do it. After years of intense focus on the moment of conversion, travel companies are […]
Google Ads Updates and Their Effect on the Hospitality Industry
In 2017, Google rolled out a number of new initiatives at their Google Marketing Next event. In 2018, this event is called Google Marketing Live, but once again we’re getting […]
Google Price Insights: New SERP Test and How to Respond
A blog post this week stated that Google is testing Google Price Insights, a new SERP element that adds price comparison features to the knowledge graph for hotels. This new […]
How to Explore Google Hotel Ads for Untapped Hotel Sales
Over the past few years Google has made a conscious effort to be a bigger player in the travel industry. Google My Business, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, and Google Hotel […]
Google Hotel Campaigns: The End Of Google Hotel Ads?
Following fast on the heels of last week’s Google announcement of the rebranding of Google AdWords to Google Ads, yesterday’s Marketing Innovations Keynote announced a plethora of new product names […]
How Google My Business Exploits the Hospitality Industry for Profit
The hospitality industry is being exploited by Google for their own profit. To be clear this article is not about regular search results where thousands of pages compete in an […]
How to Stop Slipping up in Google Search
A recent study reveals that travel companies should be worried about how Google is displaying search results but there are ways around it During the opening panel at the recent […]