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3 Trends in Hotel Compression Nights and What They Mean

As the number of compression nights continues to decrease overall in the U.S., will pricing power be a concern in 2019? Compression nights have long served as opportunities for hoteliers […]

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3 Tips to Improve Your Hotel Occupancy Rate

The occupancy rate is a widely tracked metric for any hotel. One of the first steps in measuring the performance of your hotel is looking at its occupancy rate. First, […]

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Data is All Around: How to Harness it for Hotel Success

From check-in to check-out and beyond, every action and interaction in a hotel generates data. But don’t let that daunt you. With the right systems in place, the right data […]

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Upselling: How to Earn Extra Revenue (and How Apps Can Help)

For many people around the world, love will soon be in the air. Not only will they shower loved ones with affection on Valentine’s Day, they’ll spend big too – […]

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Use Publicly Available Data to Improve Occupancy Rate Predictions

Given that tourism is a global industry consuming a diversity of goods and services, the prediction of future trends needs to take account of the wider economic context, according to […]

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Old School Distribution Tool Can Help Hotels Boost Bookings

Most major manufacturing industries are cyclical, taking top trends from past decades and updating them to sell to a brand-new generation of consumers; the retail, interior design and music industries […]

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4 Quick Ways to Boost Your Hotel’s Checkout Conversion Rates

Ever since online travel agencies took off, direct conversion rates in hospitality have been so poor that many hoteliers had simply given up on maintaining and upgrading their websites, instead […]

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How to calculate your B&B’s average room rate and other revenue metrics

Running an accommodation business of any size is no easy feat, but small property owners in particular have unique challenges as they juggle everything from pricing to housekeeping on a […]

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Front Desk Staff Can Increase Direct Bookings & Cut Distribution Costs

Like all segments of the hotel industry, limited and select service hotels are seeing distribution costs eating away at top-line profits. NB: This is an article from Doug Kennedy, President […]

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The Hotel Upsell: Three Suggestions To Win The Risk-Reward Game

In an experience-driven industry like hospitality, online upselling is one of the easiest strategies a marketer can use to drive additional revenue. When the guest is already committed to booking, […]

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