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Booking.com: Once Again the OTA Wins and You Lose

Two of these confusing visibility boosters are the “free room upgrade” and “free breakfast” by Booking.com. Do you know how they work?

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The Potential Impacts of Ignoring Your Hotel Price Competitiveness

In this discussion we change tack a little and look at possible medium to long term implications of not addressing your hotel price competitiveness

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How Controlling Your Hotel Pricing Could Increase Bookings by 34%

Pablo outlines concisely, how losing control of your pricing could mean hoteliers missing out on a potential 34% increase in bookings

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No, Loyalty Does Not Increase ADR, But It’s Still Worth It

Why would you expect your discount-based loyalty program to increase your ADR? It’s counter intuitive and mathematically impossible

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Reasons To Be Concerned About New Digital Markets Act

We aim to provide valuable insights into what the new Digital Markets Act means to hoteliers and its possible implications

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5 Tools in Your Hotel Google Profile to Increase Your Direct Sales

This article explains a number of different tools available to you through your hotel’s profile in Google Hotels that you probably haven’t heard about

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This is How Tripadvisor Net Commission Per Stay Model Works

This model is designed as a gateway to the Tripadvisor metasearch world, allowing the many hotels that are currently offline to try it risk-free.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Distribution

Following the path of virtuosity in the marketing ecosystem, we must try to avoid temptation and stay away from the seven deadly sins of distribution

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All You Need to Know About Trivago’s New Free Booking Links

Just like Google, trivago has enabled free ads, which are ads that do not require a bid on the metasearch engine

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booking.com are one of many otas who charge hotels fees

The Reasons Why Customers Use Booking.com (And So Do I)

Thanks Booking.com for great service. Or should I say, “thanks hotel for rolling out the red carpet to Booking.com so that they can roll it out for me?”

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