marketing

Can Direct Booking Campaigns End Up With Both Sides Declaring Victory?

Shifting hotel bookings to their own websites is clearly a positive for the large hotel chains, but online travel agencies could actually come out ahead, as well. For the online […]

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Marketing Strategies for a Competitive Advantage in 2017

According to Geoffrey Moore in his book Living on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet, stock price is a measure of future potential […]

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How influencers and advocates could be the new marketing trick or treat

It’s Halloween today and soon it will be Christmas. In the search for fresh new ideas maybe it’s time to turn to the rising stars of digital marketing – influencers […]

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5 things about your hotel’s website that will scare guests away

October is always full of fright, and you might be incorporating ghosts, ghouls and goblins into your hotel decor this month. And while you can certainly spook things up at […]

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Can marketing automation raise your online review scores?

NB: This is an article from Ryan Solutions I think you’d be hard pressed to find a hospitality brand that doesn’t want to see their online review score jump a […]

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The Science Behind Increasing Direct Bookings

With the ever-growing importance of the direct booking channel and the increasingly complicated path-to-purchase behavior of the multi-channel and multi-device travel consumer, today’s hotel website can simply no longer afford […]

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Six Things Scaring The $%#@ Out Of Hotel Marketers This Halloween

NB: This is an article from Tambourine For Halloween, we asked hotel marketers from coast to coast, representing properties of all sizes, what they’re most spooked about right now. Here is […]

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Strategies for Winning the Direct Booking Wars

NB: This is an article by Revinate It’s been a busy year on the “book direct” front. Hotels of all sizes are facing off against established and emerging online travel […]

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What a promotion reveals about how Airbnb sees resort rentals

Next-generation hospitality company Airbnb has been running an old-fashioned hospitality promotion to try to grab a bigger slice of the rental market in traditional resort areas. This October, the lodging-rental company has been […]

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Massive mobile expansion planned in travel over next three years

Mobile marketing offers unrivalled growth opportunities for the travel industry, outstripping potential returns from investments in digital marketing, social media and artificial intelligence According to a survey of 183 European […]

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