hotels

No hotelier really needs to be reminded of the essential role reviews play in the holiday shopping process. But just in case you do, the latest stats show that a […]

A hotel’s marketing and revenue management departments each hold keys to data that could drive more hotel revenue. NB: This is an article from Rainmaker Often, however, revenue managers and […]

Revenue management at an airport hotel can be a lot like air-traffic control. More than it does at other hotels, the weather can cause wild fluctuations in bookings. And sudden […]

The digital world is a noisy place: People are bombarded with tons of content and messages every second – from online ads to blog posts and user-generated content, among other […]

When investing in hotels, recent year-over-year trends in revenues and profits, along with current performance values, are two of the metrics most frequently evaluated. Investors need to balance the current […]

Being in the business of hotel sales training, most months I spend at least six to eight days training hotel sales managers and also reservations sales agents on how to […]

Years before big data exploded into something like a phenomenon, hotels were already incorporating industry data into their revenue technologies and strategies. NB: This is an article from IDeaS But […]

Though the hotel industry as a whole has been aware of it for a while, rate mixing or ‘blending’ continues to be an area in which OTAs outstrip their hotel […]

Last month, Instagram announced new action buttons that will allow users to book a hotel room directly within the app. Users can now ‘Book’, ‘Reserve’, ‘Get Tickets’, or ‘Start Order’. […]

While OTAs have long been a dominant source of indirect hotel bookings, metasearch sites like Kayak, Trivago, TripAdvisor, and Google have recently become much more relevant in hotel marketing and […]