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Understand And Make The Most of Your Demand Data

When analysing direct sales, don’t overlook the booking request data you receive, both the total requests and the requests you’re unable to fulfil

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Bing Hotel Price Ads, a New Showcase for Your Direct Sales

Bing Hotel Price Ads is an opportunity to recover sales from customers who are searching for you but end up with the OTAs because they bid on your name

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Why Setting a Fixed Budget for Paid Campaigns is Damaging

In the hands of the right professionals, paid campaigns are a valuable resource that can be optimised to return a much higher ROAS than other channels

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Trivago Improves CPA With Cancellations Taken Into Account (Net CPA)

trivago is transforming its Gross CPA model to a Net CPA model for independent hotels, which will take cancellations into account when charging commissions

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Hotels Must Evolve Fast – It Will Be a Tough Future Otherwise

We touch on a number of topics with a mood of optimism that travel will return, whilst realising hotels can be short-sighted and have short memories

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Make Your Eco-Sustainable Hotel Stand Out on Google and Booking.com

Since the end of summer 2021, Google has begun to identify eco-sustainable hotels and Google Travel users can already see information about these hotels

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The Increase in Revenue of a Good Room Upselling Strategy

There is a general consensus that a good room upselling strategy brings a lot of value to the hotel. We summarise it in four points:

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Booking.com Introduces “Native Ads”

This is probably the most interesting part, as native ads are mostly intended for destination searches (“hotels in Boston”) and not branded searches

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Tripadvisor Plus New Reward Model, Everything You Need to Know

Tripadvisor is the first big, relevant and global player in the online travel industry that dares to charge the user as its main revenue stream

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How to Improve Your Hotel Distribution, Direct Sales and Your Results.

The digital advance and the growth of online sales generate a lot of important data that can suggest sales opportunities your hotel may not have considered

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