hotels

Hotels cancellation fees no match for prepayment discounts

When it comes to hotel companies’ recent attempts to tweak consumer behavior by encouraging early, prepaid bookings while discouraging last-minute cancellations, the carrot appears to be working far better than […]

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Hotel Website Design and Usability: Top 10 Mistakes

NB: This is an article by Vikram Singh via wordsofvikram Hotel website design, like any kind of design, is subjective. Nothing is more painful than a website design “discussion” where […]

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Hotels Achieve 1.8 Times More Value With Direct Bookings

The average booking value hotels are realizing on their direct website is nearly double the value they are receiving from third-party booking channels, the global hotel industry’s leading cloud platform, […]

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Priceline: We Can Offer Discounted Rates, Too

Priceline Group Interim CEO Jeffery Boyd believes hotel chains should reconsider their efforts to withhold their lowest rates from the largest accommodations player on the planet. “I wouldn’t express it […]

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What if Airbnb became the boutique hotel of many?

What if Airbnb built a hotel? Ian Schrager said on stage at this year’s BLLA conference that, in some ways, Airbnb is the boutique hotel of one. So, what if […]

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Hotel Occupancy Flattens Across Global Regions

Europe Europe led the global regions in terms of hotel occupancy and average daily rate growth during the second quarter of 2016, according to STR. But industry results and commentary […]

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Hotel Chains’ New Direct Booking Strategy? TripAdvisor!

One hotel chain, Marriott International, which participates in TripAdvisor Instant Booking, and one that doesn’t, Hilton Worldwide, are now both using TripAdvisor’s comparison shopping and booking features to persuade travelers […]

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Facebook reigns supreme in hotel social marketing

  Facebook, the most popular social media platform, connects millions of people across the globe, and it didn’t take long for businesses to take notice and try to take advantage of […]

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6 Reasons Why GMs Care about Revenue Management

NB: This is an article from IDeaS Tasked with overseeing all hotel operations, general managers (GMs) are well positioned to help their organizations drive profitability by achieving a strong culture […]

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OTAs vs hotels: why ‘an old and tired story’ keeps running

From cost per acquisition to qualifying fences and ensuring rate parity with the comp set, Pamela Whitby hears what is keeping three US-based hoteliers awake at night What keeps hoteliers […]

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