reservations
Weakening March Reservation Pace Creates New Challenges for Hoteliers
As North American hoteliers head into the spring season, new commitments that have been added over the last month (pace) are down -1.6 percent, and committed occupancy* for the first […]
Making the Impossible Possible: The Magic of Hotel Room Allocation & Distribution Technology
The average nightly rate for a hotel room in Nashville last year was $261. In Boston, the average was $257. For the average four-night stay in either destination, a guest […]
Follow-Up On Voice Reservations Inquiries with Personalized Emails and Phone Calls
If you’re like most hotel marketing and revenue leaders, chances are that one of your major near term strategic goals is to drive more direct bookings and thus reduce the […]
Ways Chatbots Could Change the Hotel Industry.
Chatbots are already working hard in the hospitality industry, from taking fast food orders to helping travelers plan their trips. While conversational AI is very much in its infancy in the hotel sector, […]
Current approaches and attitudes toward the reservation process.
In pursuit of our mission to help hoteliers recapture guest relationships and increase conversions on their websites, we conducted a small piece of research. We asked hoteliers across the United States and Europe […]
What a Ride: A Day in the Life of Hotel Rate Codes
The Rate Code Superhighway Do you really know what your hotel’s rate code has to go through to reach its end destination? Unless you specialize in distribution, most of us […]
5 reasons you need to be tracking voice reservations at your hotel
With the overwhelming flood of new technology, mobile bookings and other reservation options, some hotels have stopped paying any attention to the phone calls they receive and the bookings they […]
How to manage high occupancy and build better guest loyalty programs
Hotels spend a vast amount of time trying to procure more bookings and increase their occupancy rates. So what if you’re really good at distributing your rooms or the market […]
100% Occupancy Dilemma for Hotels, what Hoteliers Need to Achieve?
Every hotelier is familiar with and knows that Occupancy is the percentage of available rooms that were sold during a specified period of time. It is calculated by dividing the […]
Taking the first steps toward personalisation in 2017
Hoteliers are hearing it from industry leaders constantly, in order to remain relevant in the changing hospitality industry, it’s time to ‘personalise’ the guest experience. But what does this actually […]