marketing

Why a Mobile Website is Essential for Hotels

Last month, I hosted a webinar on “How to Build a Mobile Website That Converts.” It’s a topic that Leonardo is passionate about educating hoteliers on, especially since Google’s algorithm […]

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5 Hotel Online Reputation Mistakes You Might Be Making

The importance of online reputation management is no longer disputable. It’s also easy to make mistakes, as many hoteliers have found, as the wrong response can get a lot of […]

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8 Essentials Every GM Needs to Know About Digital Marketing

Of the most pressing issues facing hotel marketers, internal stakeholder communication and education about digital marketing continues to be often overlooked and neglected. Especially with budget season moving into high […]

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Google SERP Changes: Watershed Moment for Hotel Brands.

Earlier this year, Google ‘unveiled’ plans to change the layout of their search engine results pages (SERPs for short) whereby no longer would they feature ads on the right hand […]

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How to Make a Great Hotel Video on a Shoestring Budget

Fundamental to any great digital marketing strategy for hotels is visual storytelling. Using a blend of words, pictures, video and audio helps convey your property’s unique story to travel shoppers […]

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TripAdvisor edging closer to ‘meta’ metasearch

Over the past couple of months, TripAdvisor has been participating in Google’s hotel metasearch program. For selected hotels, consumers are seeing TripAdvisor as a place to book. Clicking on the TripAdvisor “Book” […]

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SEO Best Practices 2016: Seizing Your Opportunities

2016 SEO best practices 2016 are numerous, but can be divided into 5 categories: Multichannel & hybrid marketing Using Schema Micro-moments Meta descriptions Optimizing site-wide The impact and influence of […]

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8 Simple Strategies to Drive Bookings from Instagram

On social media today, your ability to be creative with the way you market your hotel is as important as mastering the essentials of each platform – if not more […]

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Wyndham Email Marketing is All About Loyalty

The following is the transcript of an email QA with Whitney Cripe, senior director of loyalty marketing at Wyndham Hotel Group. How would you broadly define what Wyndham’s email strategy […]

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IHG puts digital, direct bookings and loyalty first

With talk of a bid from China’s Anbang Insurance Group being dismissed by IHG, Sally White takes a look at what the future holds Pity the poor management that delivers […]

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