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What if the Only Website Ever Needed for Travel Bookings was Google
Google is positioning itself as the only website you need for anything, including finding a place to stay. Let me explain with a bit of history. HISTORY OF GOOGLE HOTEL ADS […]
Hotels Can Take Advantage of Facebook’s New Appointment Booking Tool
While appointment bookings don’t appear to be enabled on all accounts yet, we would imagine that it’s only a matter of time before all hotels can benefit.
5 Psychological Triggers to Increase your Website Bookings
In the following post, we’ll explain 5 psychological triggers that you can use to influence your customers decision-making, forge deeper relationships, and drive more direct bookings.
Ctrip vs Alibaba: 2 Approaches To The Chinese Travel Industry
Alibaba launched its online platform “Alitrip” in 2014 to compete with Ctrip. Moving forward to 2017, Alibaba decided to scrap Alitrip and build a new travel platform, Fliggy.
5 Things I Learned About the Future of Search at Google Marketing Live
It is apparent that Google aims to own and monetize this entire consumer journey. Hotels have seen this for a long time with the evolution of the knowledge panel and Google Hotel ads.
Understanding Website Analytics for Hotels
Website analytics play a very important role in improving your hotel’s online presence. By understanding the performance of your vanity hotel website, you can improve your direct bookings.
How to Increase Revenue Throughout the Customer Journey
Once every few years, a new technology comes along that surprises and delights us. Here we discuss how hotels can adopt revolutionary new tech that can help deliver record direct revenue.
8 Missing Website Components That Are Costing Your Hotel Money
Here are 8 conversion-driven website components that could help you boost online reservations and profits for your business in the year ahead:
How to Get a Fuller Picture of Your Competitors’ Room Rates
Not all room rates are created equal. As travellers, we understand this. Yet, when rate shopping as revenue managers, we can sometimes overlook this fundamental fact. If we see a […]
Independent Hotels: An Action Plan to Win the Direct Booking
Building upon the customer relationship in the Dreaming, Planning and Booking phases, utilizing CRM and loyalty initiatives, hoteliers can win guest loyalty in the Experiencing and Sharing Phases.