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Recent Google My Business Changes for Hotels

This hints that Google is not only putting more focus on building out Google My Business data to improve its hotel search user experience but that they may also drop TrustYou as a data provider.

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18 Ways to Boost Hotel Bookings and Get More Revenue!

How can I get more bookings and more revenue? This is the question that every hotelier should regularly ask themselves to keep their business thriving!

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Turn Top Direct Booking Trends into Smart Conversion Strategies

The OTAs have dominated the direct booking space for years. But now, hotels have almost caught up. Last year, the hotel industry captured 49% of direct bookings.

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How Important Are Google Reviews?

Online reviews from regular people (well, the legit ones anyway), are typically uninfluenced by external factors and give a genuine, ‘real’ insight into the quality of the property.

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OTAs Charging Commissions on Resort Fees: What Resorts Can Do

An effective hotel website will show travel consumers exactly how resort fees will fund their experience. AHLA’s research found 70% of consumers prefer the resort fee to be separate.

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Baidu Introduces Aladdin as its First Hotel Ads Product

When it comes to hoteliers, they have started to integrate with global hotel groups to attract other suppliers to participate. A number of key international hotel groups land on the Baidu search page.

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Why Travel Intent Products Are Baffling Hoteliers

Travel Intent Targeting is essentially the ability to find users who have decided on a destination but have not yet chosen a specific hotel in that destination

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Why Amazon Should Acquire Airbnb – and Not for the Love of Travel

Speculation persists on the possibility of Amazon’s entry into travel. So what should Amazon’s next move be? The answer is to acquire Airbnb.

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3 Hotels with High-Impact Website Conversion Strategies

3 Hotels with High-Impact Website Conversion Strategies

Here we showcase three hotels who have seen a significant uplift in website conversions thanks to the implementation of effective direct booking strategies working together with us

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Expedia Mulls Matching Booking on Resort Fee Commissions

With Booking.com making the controversial move of charging commissions on hotel resort fees for the first time this week, rival Expedia Group isn’t ruling out matching the new stance.

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