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How to Increase Revenue and ADR Without (Almost) Working on Price

The first association most people still do when they hear about Revenue Management, is pricing and rate management. NB: This is an article by Silvia Cantarella of Revenue Acrobats This […]

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Color Psychology: Hotel’s Best Secret for Boosting Web Conversion

Great marketing is all about being able to tap into the mind and predict the behavior of your target audience. Fortunately, doing so does not require any psychic abilities or […]

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5 Tips For An Influential Google My Business Hotel Listing

In the last few years, Google has changed their business listing infrastructure a great deal from Google Places and Google + Business into a single comprehensive platform called Google My […]

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Were ETSSA Right to Slam Direct Bookings

By this point, the number of studies testifying to the positive impact of direct bookings – and the sometimes harmful influence of OTAs – is approaching too many to count. […]

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Hotel Data Management: 3 Ways Hotels Use Data To Increase Revenue

For a long time hotels did not just underutilize data, but were intimidated by it – the amount of it, and where and how to even begin analyzing and using […]

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Why are hoteliers asking CRS vendors so many tough questions?

Your central reservation system (CRS) is one of the most important assets in your hotel’s overall marketing arsenal. (Yes, marketing… because pricing is one of the four “Ps” of marketing) […]

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Understanding the true cost of distribution

Hotels can make the biggest impact to their bottom line with an optimized direct channel. But a recent white paper by HEDNA found most independent properties are underinvesting and undervaluing […]

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Science Based Hotel Revenue Management Surpasses Fiction of Rules Based Models

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. ~ Carl Sagan ~ When it comes to developing pricing strategies, dealing with the competition, and […]

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Mobile and a massively missed opportunity

Markets are becoming mobile first and giving brands huge potential to reach out to travellers, but are many still missing out by failing to reach consumers on their smartphones? Creating […]

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Data Append Campaigns: Digital Marketing tactic for need times

Every hotel experiences need periods. Whether it is the shoulder season, big group cancellation, missing pace, or just a bad month, these things happen to almost everybody in our industry. […]

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