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How to encourage hotel guest reviews on Facebook, Google and others
Online guest reviews are more important than ever. In researching hotels, potential customers are proactively seeking information about the experiences of previous guests. Reviews and star ratings on websites like […]
9 diversions OTAs use which ruin your profits
After years of working on the OTAs, today I can update the many tricks they use which directly affect the profits of your hotel. These tricks are much more than […]
10 Ways To Ring In the New Year, With More Bookings!
January is right around the corner and although hoteliers are preoccupied with making the most out of the Christmas season, January is also a revenue opportunity not to be missed! […]
How to stop potential guests from abandoning their booking
According to Sales Cycle, 81% of online travel bookings are abandoned, with 13% saying it’s because the booking process is too long and complicated, even after selecting rooms and dates. […]
Your Hotel Reputation Matters to Your Revenue
Earlier in hospitality domain, the pricing structures and decisions were majorly based on factors like supply and demand, local events, corporate/negotiated rates, event/group bookings, majorly because of the absence of […]
How digital marketing can help you to manage distribution
Distribution falls into two camps – third party and direct. Each one has huge benefits, and potential challenges. Keeping a keen eye on both is essential to ensuring healthy […]
How mobile is fragmenting the OTA booking process
Teletext Holidays chairman Steve Endacott explains how the need for speed in an increasingly mobile world is leading to the emergence of a two-stage online booking journey and what this […]
New hotel booking sites take advantage of industry loopholes
Almost seven years since HotelTonight launched its tonight-only hotel booking app, the industry has been flooded with a host of ambitious startups looking to find similar success. At the recent […]
SEO checks to perform when switching to SSL on your hotel website
Google’s been pushing for some time that all websites use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to ensure higher levels of security across the web. More than half of the websites on […]
How To Take Your Hotel’s Instagram To the Next Level
Instagram is a treasure trove for user generated images, which will easily showcase your hotel’s personality and charm. Instagram currently has around 800 million users, 500 million of those being […]