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Monitoring Hundreds of Booking Sites - No Longer a Challenging Task for Hoteliers
August 10, 2017
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In an internet addicted world, booking travel has also become digital with hotel rates displayed across multiple booking sites. Room rates vary according to room type, and many other inclusions like meals, Wi-Fi, and other amenities, like spa, club, local transfers, etc. Room rates also largely vary with change in demand, seasonality and other variables. No wonder with every additional room type and booking partner/OTA, the number of rates visible online for a hotel becomes a...
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Hotels, Utilize Closed User Group (CUG) Customers to Increase Revenue Through Direct Bookings
August 8, 2017
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There is no need to emphasize much about the importance of Direct Bookings for hotels, as this is a common knowledge to every hotelier and revenue manager. We have discussed at length about ways to increase direct bookings in our earlier blogs – Hotels, Let’s go direct and How to increase hotel direct bookings? In this blog, we will share how you should utilize your Closed User Group (CUG) consumers to get more direct bookings and a healthy bottom-line. To begin, let...
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Despite the best efforts of hotel brands, travelers still love to click around
August 1, 2017
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In their ongoing tug of war with online travel agencies, hotel companies have launched some clever campaigns in recent years to steer more consumers to their branded sites for commission-free direct bookings, promising that travelers always will find the lowest rates there. But a new study indicates it still pays to click around. A survey by the research firm Piper Jaffray found OTAs and travel search sites offered the lowest rates more often than hotel brand websites. ...
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14 Features to Consider Before Your Hotel Decides to Devote In a Channel Manager
July 24, 2017
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Managing rates and inventory across a single channel is a difficult task, but this problem is further compounded when the hotel has to manage it for multiple online travel agents. All the responsibility comes on the shoulders of the hotel’s revenue manager (RM) If you as an RM of the hotel are updating inventory manually across multiple OTAs, then you are missing the opportunity to engage directly with your customers and wasting your precious time, which you could have spe...
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Hoteliers, You Need a Channel Manager with an Edge to Stand out from Competition
July 18, 2017
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A recent study reveals that approximately 90% of travel bookings are done online, compared to just 50% a decade ago. This clearly explains the increasing trend of booking travel online by the consumers. It also justifies the reason why hoteliers need to master distribution and do it soon because the hotels that will invest in their channel optimization and distribution strategies will certainly emerge as the next generation of winners in the hospitality industry. To make t...
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