technology

Google SERP Changes: Watershed Moment for Hotel Brands.

Earlier this year, Google ‘unveiled’ plans to change the layout of their search engine results pages (SERPs for short) whereby no longer would they feature ads on the right hand […]

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How to Make a Great Hotel Video on a Shoestring Budget

Fundamental to any great digital marketing strategy for hotels is visual storytelling. Using a blend of words, pictures, video and audio helps convey your property’s unique story to travel shoppers […]

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Revenue Technology: Essential tools to drive bookings

NB: This is an article by SiteMinder. Hoteliers need a well-developed, actionable revenue management strategy in order to create a solid foundation for their business. A revenue management strategy should […]

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How Smart Hotels Use Messaging to Connect With Guests

Hotels are finally beginning to implement messaging strategies that make it easier for their guests to get in touch with them via SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and the like. […]

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Hotelient seeking to disrupt internet booking engine market

With the advent of cloud computing, the cost of technology has plummeted, a bit like the London FTSE the day after Brexit. The only difference is that, unlike the FTSE […]

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TripAdvisor edging closer to ‘meta’ metasearch

Over the past couple of months, TripAdvisor has been participating in Google’s hotel metasearch program. For selected hotels, consumers are seeing TripAdvisor as a place to book. Clicking on the TripAdvisor “Book” […]

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Duetto Empowers Hotels with Personalized Loyalty Pricing

NB: This is an article from Duetto Most major hotel brands have invested heavily in their loyalty programs to grow their revenues and fight off online travel agencies, but if […]

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SEO Best Practices 2016: Seizing Your Opportunities

2016 SEO best practices 2016 are numerous, but can be divided into 5 categories: Multichannel & hybrid marketing Using Schema Micro-moments Meta descriptions Optimizing site-wide The impact and influence of […]

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8 Simple Strategies to Drive Bookings from Instagram

On social media today, your ability to be creative with the way you market your hotel is as important as mastering the essentials of each platform – if not more […]

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Wyndham Email Marketing is All About Loyalty

The following is the transcript of an email QA with Whitney Cripe, senior director of loyalty marketing at Wyndham Hotel Group. How would you broadly define what Wyndham’s email strategy […]

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