The Truth Behind Parity Performance Affecting Conversion Rate
There is a lot of confusion about parity performance affecting conversion rate for hoteliers.
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Como Criar um Ambiente Inclusivo para os Visitantes do seu Hotel e Aumentar o Número de Reservas
Você já ouviu falar sobre a expressão “inclusão de hóspedes” no ramo hoteleiro? Essa expressão está em alta, demandando bastante atenção do setor corportativo.
Cómo Crear un Ambiente Inclusivo para los Huéspedes de su Hotel y Mejorar las Reservas
¿Alguna vez ha escuchado la expresión "inclusión de los huéspedes" en la industria hotelera? Últimamente, ha estado generando mucho revuelo, obligando a la parte corporativa de la industria hotelera a tomar nota.
How to Optimize Data Security at Hotels
Data – it’s the currency of the modern age. The truth is that information is far more valuable than cash, which is why a growing number of criminals are far less interested in penetrating a business’s bank accounts than they are in stealing the information contained on its hard drives.
Digital Marketing Checklist for Hotels in 2022
Do you desire more direct bookings through your website? Is your hotel’s social media account not generating the same results as your competitors’?
How to Achieve Revenue Goals through Sales
The world of hospitality sales has become increasingly competitive. That means it is harder than ever to meet your revenue goals. Not only must you contend with competitors, but other distractions pull your audience’s attention away. How are you supposed to achieve your hospitality sales goals? There is no one-size-fits-all approach that will work, but we’ll cover several critical sales tips to help you reach (and even exceed) your revenue goals.
Affiliate Marketing: How Can Hotels Explore This to Their Advantage?
Did you know that you can achieve more direct sales, increase revenue, and boost your online presence with hotel affiliate marketing?
Build Effective Marketing Strategies for Your Hotel and Increase Revenue
Continuously developing marketing tactics should be an ongoing task in the hospitality industry. Normally, your marketing strategy creates opportunities to connect with your audience by creating content that resonates with your target market. Additionally, using the right combination of inbound and outbound marketing allows you to engage with wider audiences.
Omicron Impact and Future of Hospitality Industry
Are you worried about the future of the hospitality industry after the surge of Covid-19 and the new variant, Omicron, in 2022? We get you! The hospitality business all over the world has faced lots of challenges and losses in the business in the last two years due to Covid.
How to Create an Inclusive Environment for Your Hotel Guests and Improve Bookings
Have you ever heard the term “guest inclusivity” in the hospitality industry? Lately, it’s been generating a lot of buzz, forcing the corporate portion of the hotel industry to take notice.
New Pulse Surveys Explore Financial Impact of COVID-19 Business Travel Reductions
How has the pandemic, and the associated decrease in business travel, impacted businesses’ finances? Are organizations prepared for business travel’s impending return? New research commissioned by the SAP Concur organization in January 2022 suggests that while there is high demand—and likelihood—for a return to business travel this year, most organizations have yet to fully lay the groundwork.
React Mobile 2.0 Workforce Safety Platform Protected from Hosted Cloud Network Outages
A network outage can be detrimental to hotel operations. No internet service means no reservations, no guest communications, and potentially no employee safety system if the hotel is using a panic button solution other than React Mobile 2.0. The hospitality workforce safety platform is designed to deliver the highest levels of reliability during a network outage, such as the one triggered by Amazon Web Services’ US-East-1 region of data centers on Dec. 7th. Hotels relying on React Mobile and operating with an AWS infrastructure experienced no safety platform downtime when the overload occurred.
RFID Reduces Garment-Sorting Times, Boots Efficiency at Casino
The Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana opened its doors this spring with an RFID-based system that manages the uniforms and linens used by its staff. The solution, provided by InvoTech Systems, leverages UHF-RFID to identify items as they are allocated to personnel, then are returned for laundering, and received back from the laundry service. The latest deployment marks the tenth Hard Rock Casino property to install the InvoTech Uniform System. Since its deployment this past May, the system has helped the facility to ensure garments are received, laundered, and made available in a timely manner. The System also identifies any problems that may occur throughout the process, as well as the need to remove damaged garments, add items that are needed, or address cleaner or employee delinquencies. The RFID technology enables 100 percent control of the company's uniform inventory, while eliminating the need to hand-count or individually scan items, says Morgan Umali, InvoTech Systems' Sales Manager.
HRS Innovation Delivers Corporate Lodging Breakthrough: A One-Stop Shop Inclusive of Transient, Meetings and New Longstay Options
HRS, the leading global corporate lodging platform, is breaking new ground by including the new “longstay” hotel segment into its continuous procurement approach and corporate booking platform. This new segment – 8+ days – is a key feature of corporate travel’s comeback, and HRS’ innovative technology makes the entire booking-through-payment experience simple for travelers using their company’s preferred travel management channels.
Tripadvisor And Reckitt Assemble Public Health And Disinfection Expert Panel To Guide Hospitality Businesses Through Travel Recovery
Tripadvisor®, the world's largest travel guidance platform, and Reckitt's Lysol® Pro Solutions, Lysol's business-to-business offering, have joined forces to launch the Lysol® Pro Solutions Expert Panel. The panel's mission is to help hospitality and tourism business owners stay one step ahead in the ever-changing environment of recommendations and guidance.
Hospitality technology innovations: what to adopt for your hotel chain
Like in any other industry, there is no dearth of significant technology innovations in the hospitality enterprise. Many globally leading hotel chains have leveraged them in the recent past and have witnessed immense business benefits. You need to know what you want out of your technology investment. Or, in other words, what are your areas of concern that hospitality technology can help you address. For this, you must adopt the latest hotel technology at the right time to stay ahead of your competition.
Alice Joins Alpine Investors' Asg Family
NEW YORK, NY & WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - July 14, 2021 – ASG, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors that buys, builds and operates vertical SaaS companies, today announced that it has acquired hotel operations management platform ALICE from Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) in a carve-out transaction.
Hotel Room Sales Strategies: To increase Occupancy and Revenue
Hotel room sales are more than just getting another guest to walk through the doors of your property. If done right, room sales can significantly improve your hotel business in its entirety. With an efficient hotel sales strategy, you can have your rooms sold out and build a steady income source, irrespective of the season. The more hotel revenue you make from your reservations, the more you can invest in your branding, marketing, and enhancing the quality of the rooms you sell.
OTA Insight releases two innovative features and new data project to support hotel recovery; will launch virtually at ReConnect 2021
OTA Insight, the cloud-based data intelligence platform for the hospitality industry, announces today the launch of three innovative new features that have been developed to empower hoteliers to better navigate the recovery period and beyond. The Rate Insight and Market Insight product features, and data project will be officially showcased at OTA Insight’s digital ReConnect event on July 22nd, with dedicated sessions in the APAC, EMEA and AMER regions.
Dynamic Spend Management Practices in Higher Education: Three Considerations for Returning to Travel This Fall
The COVID-19 pandemic caused global disruption to daily operations at colleges and universities. In response to the seemingly overnight switch to a virtual environment, the financial accommodation for testing and personal protective equipment, and the need to address declining enrollment, higher education leaders have been forced to be more strategic with their expenditures. While travel and expense planning may seem like an element that can easily be reduced to save dollars, it is important for higher education leaders to take into consideration how travel and expense programs factor into their institutional mission and goals.