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Your Hotel Email Marketing is Wrong. Here’s How to Fix It.

  NB: This is an article by NetAffinity According to the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing generates a whopping 2500% ROI. While there are a variety of useful channels you […]

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How to optimize travel search results with an analytics framework

  NB: This is a viewpoint by Tony Gray, senior director of North American Consulting Services at Webtrends. Recent news about Expedia’s Accelerator program for hotel listings has opinions swirling […]

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Will SERP Changes Impact Hotel PPC?

  NB: This is an article from FUEL The hotel industry has seen the Google SERP change pretty drastically over the past few years and the latest update was more […]

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Google, travel and intimacy

  Should companies involved in the travel-planning process be concerned about the release last week of Destinations on Google, a mobile format designed to help travelers get from the top […]

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Google tackles OTAs with vacation-booking tool on mobile

  Google is taking the travel industry head-on with the rollout of its newest tool, Destinations on Google, which lets consumers discover and book their next vacation entirely via mobile […]

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Its time for the Moneyball of destination marketing

  Destination marketers are rising up. Or as some of them put it: geeking up. They’re daring to bypass their ad agencies and parse big data to figure how to […]

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The Gloves Are Off: Big Brands Throwing Direct Booking Punches

  NB: This is an article from Tambourine Hotel industry giants have had enough. Like you, they appear to be sick of the big commissions, the declining customer loyalty and the […]

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Why Ranking on Page 1 in Google is Not the Goal of SEO

  NB: This is an article by John McAuliffe, President of Leonardo A lot of conversations I have with hotel marketers about SEO go something like this: John: “What’s the […]

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Where Will SEO Go This Year?

  NB: This is an article by Benjamin Spiegel, CEO of MMI Agency. In the world of SEO, 2015 was relatively quiet. Sure, search marketers had a plethora of algorithm […]

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The Facts About Hotel Reviews and Rankings on Google

  NB: This is an article by Margaret Ady of TrustYou There is much chatter these days about TrustYou data on Google and what really drives improvements in the TrustScore, […]

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