hotels
Drive direct bookings without using direct links
Increasing traffic to your own website is one of the most important factors for a hotel’s success, as 100 per cent of all revenue from direct bookings are paid to the […]
Does my hotel social media help improve my SEO?
SEO, three little letters that are immensely important to the success of your hotel. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves maximizing the number of visitors to your website by ensuring it […]
DiBPAR – Direct Booking Revenue per Available Room
We’ve seen plenty of hotels tracking their efforts to bring bookings back to direct. But just tracking, for example, the percentage split between direct and OTA guests fails to tell […]
Taking Hotel Marketing Beyond Planning and Booking
Marketing to your guests isn’t just about winning them over at planning and at booking. There’s actually seven steps to the customer journey, and technology can help you optimize your […]
12 Simple Tools to Make Your Hotel Marketing Easier
It’s the little things that often take the most time when it comes to hotel marketing. Once your team has a consensus on the best ways to drive direct bookings for […]
Why Cancelling & Re-Booking is Killing Your Revenue
Why do guests cancel and re-book hotel reservations? Well, that’s easy: Because they can, and because it makes economic sense—people don’t want to spend more money than they have to. […]
Smart hotel marketers using marketing automation to increase revenue
Smart hotel marketers are using new, affordable marketing automation tools to close more group and meetings business. Marketing automation technology is one of the biggest advancements in the marketing world […]
Hotel 101: Understanding RevPAR
Part three of our series exploring the basics of hotel operations brings us to the topic of RevPar. To fully maximize hotel performance, we use several specific terms including RevPAR, […]
Facebook’s ambitions for travel planning and booking
There was a telling interview in Skift with Facebook’s Head of Travel, Christine Warner, that illustrates just how ambitious the company is getting about travel. Interestingly, Warner described Facebook as a […]
Ensuring your hotel website is optimized for mobile
Ensuring that your hotel’s website is optimised for mobile search is essential if you don’t want to miss out on key traffic and potential bookings. Much has been said already […]
