hotels

Hotels Must Simplify the Booking Experience to Compete with OTAs

The hotel industry has been losing booking share to the OTAs for several years, and the trend does not appear to be reversing any time soon. Phocuswright shows that U.S. […]

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Facebook Custom Audiences Tool: A Guide for Brands

Facebook recently removed third-party ad targeting segments, which were built into the Advanced Audience page. Called Partner Categories, these segments included supplemental material from Experian, Axciom, Oracle Data Cloud, and […]

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How to Use Customer Insights to Spur Growth

After years of focusing on controlling costs, growth has moved to the top of the priority list for many companies. In a survey of 1,600 senior executives by KPMG, 96% […]

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Increasing Importance of Mobile Speed for Organic Search Rankings

Google recently came out with a new tool to help companies compare their mobile performance against their competitors and measure the impact that decreasing mobile page load times can have […]

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TripAdvisor: What Hotel Marketers Need to Know

TripAdvisor launched in 2000 and has since grown to become the world’s most used travel website. The company’s original business plan was to drive leads to hotel websites. Today, TripAdvisor […]

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Google Testing Variable Occupancy in Germany

An important distinction travelers make when booking a hotel room is the designation of how many people will be staying in the hotel room. Business travel tends to be single […]

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On-Page Ranking Factors Hotels Need to Optimize For Great Results

Let’s break down a quick scenario. You are a hotel owner and you just spent a lot of money to create a well designed independent website. You have invested a […]

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How hotel brands are cracking the home rental market

With homesharing apps now a firm fixture on the smartphones of many travelers, big name hotel brands are increasingly looking to build their own presence in the home rental market […]

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Is Direct Booking Really Best? Right Channeling May Be Better

There’s no doubt that there are clear benefits to increasing your direct bookings, for both your hotel and your customers. NB: This is an article from Rainmaker Hotels save on […]

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Is Too Much Choice Killing Your Hotel Conversion

In today’s world choice can often be associated with freedom and autonomy but is it really liberating? Or is this plethora of choice in absolutely everything we do actually oppressing? […]

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