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4 Budget Items to Boost Direct Bookings
It’s budget season for hotel teams. Many will spend the waning weeks of 2017 crafting budgets and tweaking business plans for 2018. A major goal of many owners and management […]
Mobile Website vs Mobile App: The Final Showdown
As we discussed in our most recent article, “Millennials + Mobile: A Match Made in (Hotelier) Heaven,” mobile is the best booking, marketing, and engagement channel available, to reach the […]
How to Use Storytelling to Connect with Travel Shoppers Emotionally
Hotel marketing ideas can come from the strangest places. For decades, the Michelin tire company promoted their products with the image of a baby sitting in the middle of one […]
Budget season tips: How to decide if you need a new hotel website
It’s budgeting season, which means your hotel is probably ready to start planning how, when, and where you’ll be investing during 2018. We’ll be offering expert tips to help you […]
How Hotel Website Design Affects ADR
Your hotel website is the first place virtually all of your future guests will engage with your property and set expectations. But more importantly, as hotels struggle to increase rates […]
5 Reasons Why You Should Embrace Content Marketing for Hotels
Content marketing. You’ve probably heard this term being thrown around a lot over the past few years, but do you know how important content marketing for hotels is when it […]
Ignoring These Website Fundamentals Is Sinking Your Social Media Efforts
Social media is very big for businesses right now: Research shows that social media advertising budgets worldwide have doubled in the past two years alone—from about $16 billion in 2014 […]
Should My Hotel Have a Blog?
I am a firm believer in the power of the blog. With enough of the right content, I can move mountains — if the mountains were relevant site traffic and […]
How to Attract Guests Online with Killer Visual Content
Online content: When it’s good, it’s great for marketing a hotel online. When it’s bad, it’s not doing anybody any favors – if anything, it’s discouraging guests from booking. This […]
Hotel Distribution and Marketing Strategies for the Customer Journey
New research sheds light on the unique booking behaviors of Mexican travelers, who show greater propensity for planning last-minute travel. Hotels might benefit from many guests paying higher prices for […]
