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8 simple ways to increase your hotel’s direct bookings

Increasing direct bookings would be one of the most rewarding (but just as challenging) tasks for any hotelier. Given the vast market size and share of third party booking sites, […]

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Google’s growth in online local reviews continues to dominate, but…

The growing importance of reputation management in business growth needs no introduction. If you want a single statistic to showcase why every business person and their dog encourages great reviews […]

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How Guests Decide Whether to Buy on Your Hotel Website

Psychology plays a deeper role in online hotel booking decisions than you may think, particularly when it comes to building trust among hotel consumers. And creating that trust, experts say, […]

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9 steps to drive more direct bookings for your hotel

Getting your bookings through OTAs can be a costly proposition – often as much as 40% to 50% of your business. Of course, eliminating OTAs from your revenue stream is […]

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Hotels Drive High-Impact Direct Bookings with Metasearch

  Last year we saw the direct booking journey make the move to metasearch. For travelers, it meant a more seamless booking experience. But what did it mean for hotels? […]

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Is Google AMP the Right Choice for Hotel Websites?

You may have heard about Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project. Countless articles have been written on this very subject. First introduced in 2015, The Google AMP project aims to […]

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7 Tactics to Increase Engagement Across Your Social Media Channels

How do you measure social media success? Which metric is even more important than how many likes your Facebook Page has or how many followers your Twitter or Instagram accounts […]

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Using public relations to benefit your hotel website SEO

The old SEO mantra “Content is King” still rings true. But it’s not enough to publish a great piece of content for your website without creating a strategic plan to […]

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3 pointers to improving your e-reputation

Today everyone knows it and everyone does it: encourage customers to post comments on social networks and opinion sites. However, not everyone gets the same result. Why is that? Because […]

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Is the era of the direct bookings coming to an end?

Recent years have seen a rise in the number of the online booking platforms. They’ve become increasingly popular, and as the intermediaries between hotels and their guests, seem to be […]

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