hotels
What Makes Your Guests The Promoters of Your Brand?
Are your guests willing to recommend your hotel to a friend, family member or colleague? If yes, then you are probably on the right path. Net Promoter Score (NPS) is […]
Five key tactics to increase corporate & group bookings
Hotel management is indeed a tricky job and requires hoteliers to don multiple hats to take various decisions. Every guest is unique and has set expectations to be fulfilled. While […]
How revenue managers navigate cancellations, OTAs
The challenge with revenue-managing a hotel often is sticking to a sensible strategy when the competing hotel up the street does just the opposite. That might be the case when […]
Boutique hotels see Airbnb as potential distribution channel
Airbnb’s founder Brian Chesky recently said on Twitter that 15,000 boutique hotels have a listing on the platform since being allowed to join last November. At first glance, hotels […]
Hotel Business Plan Development: Getting Ready for 2018 Budgeting
Before we complete our business plans for 2018, a review of macroeconomic data is in order. China’s growth might be slowing but we anticipate a fairly steady U.S. economy in […]
Back to basics: What is a chatbot and does my hotel need one?
A chat what? While the term chatbot might still be a foreign term for some hotel owners, this technology is quickly gaining momentum in the hospitality and travel industries as […]
If You Don’t Give Guests What They Want They’ll Go Elsewhere
The hotel shopping model is changing. We see it in the growth of vacation rental sites like Airbnb and HomeAway. We see it in the shift from cookie cutter chains […]
Hoteliers’ secrets of increasing direct reservations
With the commission rates of booking sites going up, and already averaging nearly 20 per cent, no wonder the hoteliers are desperate to avoid the middleman. Increasing the number of direct […]
How hotels can increase direct bookings out of season
It should come as no surprise that guests often visit a hotel’s website for more information on the hotel which they intend to book, but then are typically driven to […]
Hotel occupancy reaches new heights but rate not keeping pace
The U.S. hotel industry’s ongoing run of monthly RevPAR increases and its recent record occupancy levels are obscuring a more unsettling trend, one that many hotel groups will be unable […]
