With social media, understanding your differentiators is easy since the public comments about your hotel can be analyzed alongside the comments about your competitors. By understanding how your hotel compares to its competitive set, marketers can be very targeted in promoting strengths that are backed up by positive customer comments. Hotel marketers

The Future of a Revenue Manager 2.0 - Part Human, Part Computer, All Profits ... Hospitality Net Simply stated, technology can only benefit your hotel if you have the right Revenue Manager at the helm. With that said, I am very opti

Over the past couple of years, hating the OTAs has become an international pastime. So much so that I think that they’re planning on naming it an official sport in the upcoming Olympic Games in London, alongside the triathalon and archery. But no matter your opinion on the OTAs, they are here to stay. While it is possible to operate a hotel without listing your property on any OTAs (after all, it

Images are very effective in generating interest, showcasing your product and drive a person to a call to action. Adding images to a site also leads to...

In 2012, hoteliers face more challenges than ever. From resolving to concentrate on “SoLoMo” (social, local, mobile marketing), to navigating “new” distribution channels, to implementing a Google+ strategy, to improving local search rankings via citations, it is near-impossible for a hotelier to distinguish viable strategies from trendy or temporary opportunities without a dedicated digital market

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113,006 trade visitors (39,7% of them from abroad) came to obtain information about all sectors of the international travel industry from the 10,644 exhibitors from 187 countries. 59,126 people from Berlin and Brandenburg came during the weekend to find out about holiday destinations and new travel offers.

Coming to you live from the Corporate Meeting Summit, presented by Cvent, join our video broadcast session, "Strategies to Get Your Meeting RFP Top Priority Attention." Cvent has gathered senior leadership from top hotel...

Shouldn't the goal be the same in the airline and hotel industry: full capacity at any fare/rate? Wouldn't a better policy be "no plane leaves with an empty seat, ever" or "we'll fill every room tonight if we have to let them...

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RoomKey.com will scour through the available hotel rooms across several lodging chains, offering up the best deals. In a world where Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz Worldwide, and priceline.com do essentially the same thing, why should Room Key stand out?

Close to 500 new hotels - or 496 to be exact - are being built in the Middle East Africa region, according to STR Global, the hospitality consultancy.

Revenue management Rules,for Meeting planners might think that revenue managers are people who sit in a...

The best revenue manager can raise RevPAR 3 to 7%. Use these tips to spot top talent and improve your chain’s bottom line Hospitality’s quest for every spare dollar available makes the corporate revenue manager one of the...