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Custom vs Ready Made Booking Engine

The idea of steering the creation of a new booking engine can be enticing, but the best results come from evaluating your chain’s needs and picking the best solution that matches your requirements.

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No Availability Dates: Is Your Hotel Really Closed?

What’s more frustrating than having prospects making a search on our booking engine to discover that the system returns a No Availability message when we still have rooms to sell in our hotel?

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3 Essential Tools to Boost Hotel Website Conversion Rate

By reducing friction throughout the booking process and providing a personalized website experience, hotel brands can significantly boost their conversion rate.

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Google to List Total Prices

Google has added taxes and fees to its hotel searches as part of a series of new features, allowing consumers to see both ‘nightly price’ and ‘nightly total’.

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Google – Your Hotel’s New Worst Best Friend?

Google is likely to expand its foothold on the travel industry, either by acquisitions or by bringing competitors to the edge of irrelevance. The trend is unlikely to revert, so it’s time hoteliers wake up

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Why Google’s “BERT” Algorithm Update is a Win For Hotel Direct Bookings

While OTAs have traditionally had their results appear in hotel branded search results, Google’s new “BERT” algorithm update has already decreased those appearances and had a significant impact

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Hotel Website Design: Complete Strategies to Win Bookings and Revenue

Hotel website design is a huge influence on the booking behaviour of travellers and should be a priority for your hotel. Travellers need a website to reflect their desires and expectations.

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How Booking Sites Like Expedia Handle Controversial Resort Fees

If you go through a third-party booking site to make hotel reservations, you’ll see certain hotels pop up first over others. In the case of Expedia Group sites, such as […]

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The Changing Landscape of Search and What That Means for Hotels

It’s up to hotels to stay on top of current marketing trends and continue to diversify the way they attract new guests. Only then will they start to recoup the organic traffic that is beginning to dwindle.

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Is Black Friday Worth It? We Take an In-depth Look

After the consumer madness and mayhem of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it’s a good time to look back on whether the results were as we expected or whether we […]

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