The Year in Review - 2017 Most Read Stories on Hospitality Net

As 2017 comes to an end, we took an opportunity to look back at what sparked our readers' interest this past year on Hospitality Net. We would like to share the top opinion articles published on our website in the last 12 months. Click on the links below for the full article.

January 2017

• Preliminary Hotel Industry Forecast: 2017

  By Robert A. Rauch

• 5 Technologies The Hotel Industry Can't Afford To Ignore In 2017

  By Jos Schaap

• Augmented Reality and the Coming Integration for Hospitality

  By Phil Butler

• 2017 Predictions: Emerging Trends in Hospitality & Technology

  By Margaret Ady

• The life and times of the modern hotel management system

  By Kiran Sunny

February 2017

• Top hotel marketing trends for 2017

  By Stuart Dickinson

• Unlocking a hotel innovation strategy

  By Carlos Martin-Rios and Sabina Savatin

• How Virtual Reality Will Revolutionize the Hospitality Industry

  By Paulo Tromp

• Isn't it time we all changed how we drive our PMS?

  By Kevin McCarthy

• Cloud PMS - A Safe Bet for Security, Liability and Payments

  By Jos Schaap

March 2017

• Innovating with AI: predictive analytics

  By Dan Fernandez

• The Shrinking Value of Hotel Loyalty Programs

  By Vikram Singh

• Big Data for Big Pay-Off

  By Paul van Meerendonk

• What Hoteliers Need To Know About Personalisation Technology

  By Sarah Came

• Hotel Technology - The Easiest (and Most Costly) Decision is Not to Make a Decision

  By Jos Schaap

April 2017

• What Are The 4 Segments Of The Hospitality Industry

  By Peter Novak

• 3 Tips from HITEC on Choosing the Right Hotel Technology

  By Fee Naaijkens

• These Major Trends Are Changing the Hospitality Industry, as You Know It

  By Jos Schaap

• How In-hotel Location Data Can Transform The Guest Experience

  By Prachi Gupta

• SEO for Independent Hotels: What, Why and How

  By Sophie Tremblay

May 2017

• So Many Hotel Software Systems, So Little Time: How to Choose the Best PMS for Your Needs and Budget

  By Jos Schaap

• How Artificial Intelligence will change the Hospitality Industry

  By Michael Toedt

• Hotels vs. the (OTA) World

  By Douglas Quinby

• The hotel room of the future

  By Stuart Pallister

• Optimizing your online channels: 9 proven ways to make OTAs work for you

  By Fig Cakar

June 2017

• 5 Hotel marketing tips for better Google search results

  By Stuart Dickinson

• Cloud-based hotel software has failed, but a new paradigm is on the horizon

  By Keith Gruen

• 7 Must-Have Hotel Marketing Technologies

  By Alex Shashou

• The future of hotel design

  By Rob Sykes

• Hotel restaurants - the next boom trend for hospitality technology?

  By Matthew Stubbs

July 2017

• Social Media Marketing in the Hotel Industry: Trends and Opportunities in 2017

  By Jimmy Quach

• Software as a Service? Better Focus on the Service!

  By Jos Schaap

• Revenue and cost strategies for boutiques, independents

  By Robert A. Rauch

• Will Blockchain Technology put Airbnb, Expedia, and Priceline out of business?

  By Frank Wolfe

• Hospitality Technology as a Guest Service Differentiator

  By Amanda Wisell

August 2017

• How Social Media Marketing Strategies can help in Enhancing Brand Identity?

  By Hardik Oza

• The Four Pillars of Hospitality Technology

  By Larry Mogelonsky

• 3 Innovative loyalty programs to be inspired by

  By Stuart Dickinson

• Innovation in luxury hospitality

  By Suzanne Godfrey

• The 2017 Social Media Universe in One Infographic: Introducing The Conversation Prism 5.0

  By Brian Solis

September 2017

• 3 Hotel KPI Revenue Management Experts Use

  By Patrick Landman

• The Thief Hotel, a new benchmark for luxury hotels?

  By Youri Sawerschel

• The next 12 months in Hotel Tech

  By Terence Ronson

• How Hotel Owners Can Fight Back Against Chargebacks

  By Robert Harrow

• Trade in Sentimentality for a Future Proof PMS

  By Kevin McCarthy

October 2017

• The Top 5 Hotel Revenue Management Trends in 2018

  By Patrick Landman

• OTAs vs Hotels: The Age-Old Battle Over Online Booking

  By Dan Lawrence

• Three Customer Service Rules That You Need to Follow Correctly

  By Katie Scheer

• Business Travel's Influence On Employee Retention, Recruitment And Results

  By Monica Sanchez

• How to Design a Boutique Hotel

  By Lillian Connors

November 2017

• Are you giving your guests a room or an experience?

  By Lara Salomon

• 5 ways AI is transforming hotel marketing

  By Casey Munck

• Hotel Room: Things that Matter Most to Your Guests

  By Lillian Connors

• Redefining Customer Loyalty in 2018

  By Yunny Byun

• The 2017 State of Digital Transformation

  By Brian Solis

December 2017

• Hospitality Trends 2018 - What's Happening in Hospitality

  By Robert A. Rauch

• Your Holiday SEO Checklist

  By Sophie Tremblay

• On social sustainability: An alarming global trend and how to disrupt it

  By Jan Edwards

• Sustainability. Really? Not yet.

  By Nicolas Dubrocard

• The key trends shaping the hospitality industry in 2018

  By John Seaton