hotels

Amid Global Uncertainty, Hotels Must Prepare Strategy for Possible Downturn

The Asia Pacific market ended 2016 with a mixed bag of results, marginally increasing occupancy 1.6% to 69%, but also posting a 0.9% fall in average daily rate to finish […]

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Three Ways Hotels Can Tell Their Brand Stories Across Multichannel Touchpoints

In storytelling, structure and formula are often important to creating a complete narrative. The traditional stories that you remember from your childhood are often simple and easy to compose – […]

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Make your hotel website mobile friendly or it won’t rank in search

For two years now, Google has been using the mobile-friendliness of a website as a method for deciding how web pages should rank in their search engine. Pages that were […]

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Landing Pages: The Secret to Turn Paid Traffic into Hotel Bookings

Landing pages are an important part of the booking funnel. They help you convert your paid traffic, carefully targeted and acquired by your marketing efforts, into profitable direct bookings. You […]

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Reach Highly Engaged Customers With Facebook DAT

With the shift from DAP to DAT, travel brands are now able to reach a highly engaged audience. For groups like IHG, this has led to a cost per booking […]

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Difference between Segmentation and ‘True’ Personalisation

Last week’s ITB trade fair in Berlin showed us that one thing is on the minds of hoteliers and OTAs alike: data. Talks from the biggest players in the travel […]

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Understanding Guest Experience and Loyalty

Delivering great guest experience leads to loyalty and while rewards systems, points and discounts can help they aren’t the natural way to build guest loyalty. At Experience Hotel we work […]

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How Much of a Threat Does Airbnb Pose to Traditional Ski Market Hotels?

Valuation professionals specializing in hotels commonly receive questions about the impact of Airbnb’s growing popularity on the established hotel industry. For years, many within the profession shrugged off Airbnb as […]

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3 Fast, Fresh Lessons Hotels Can Learn From Dominos

In a world of lightning-fast technology and constant industry disruption, one skill has risen as a top necessity for older companies to survive: Innovation We’ll be the first to tell […]

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4 Ways to Increase Your Direct Bookings

Nary a hospitality conference is found without the token debate about OTAs and their impact on hotels’ direct bookings. This trending topic has become so prevalent and so fierce, in […]

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