How to Segment Your Guests: 5 Basic Tips to Boost Conversions
Understanding your guests is key to standing out as a hotel. But with diverse demographics and travel styles, a one-size-fits-all approach simply won't cut it. This is where guest segmentation comes in, a powerful strategy that allows you to personalize your offerings and communication to resonate with each guest on a deeper level. This article explores the power of guest segmentation for hoteliers, from understanding its core benefits to implementing a successful segmentation strategy within
What Is EBITDAR and Why Does it Matter for Hotel Profitability?
EBITDAR is a financial metric that stands for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and restructuring or rent costs. It is sometimes used by hospitality businesses to assess financial health. As a metric, EBITDAR is important because it helps to level the playing field when comparing businesses with different structures and rent costs. This allows financial assessments to focus on core operational performance. In this article, you can find out more about what EBITDAR is
Digital Marketing Strategies Transforming the Hospitality Industry
The hospitality industry has undergone a dramatic transformation through the integration of digital marketing. Hotels, resorts, and travel brands are moving away from traditional advertising to adopt Digital Marketing Strategies, transforming the Hospitality Industry, leveraging data-driven insights, real-time engagement, and online platforms. This digital revolution allows hospitality businesses to connect with guests on a deeper level, offering seamless online booking, mobile check-ins, and immersive virtual experiences that align with evolving traveler expectations. Using Data to
Hotel Energy Solution: Save Money and The Planet
The right hotel energy solution is a major concern for any hotel business. Rising energy costs can dramatically affect your bottom line. In addition, today's eco-minded travelers are increasingly concerned with the impact of their stay on the environment. In this article, you'll learn how your hotel business can reduce costs, attract more guests, and care for the planet at the same time. Table of Contents: Understanding the Hotel Industry: Hospitality, Accommodation and More Sustainable
How Luxury Hotels Use Technology to Elevate Comfort and Convenience
The hospitality industry has always been about anticipating needs before guests even realize they have them. But today's luxury hotels have taken this art to an entirely new level, weaving technology so seamlessly into the guest experience that it feels less like innovation and more like intuition. Walk into a top-tier property now, and you'll find yourself in spaces that respond to your preferences, remember your habits, and somehow manage to feel both cutting-edge and warmly personal at the same time. Here's how they're doing this. 7 Ways Luxury Hotels Use Technology to Elevate the Guest Experience Here are seven
Hotel Marketing Checklist and Tips for Pre-Opening Success
Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel To ensure a successful launch, what key actions should be on a hotel’s marketing checklist in the months leading up to a new opening? (Question proposed by Kamila Zawadzka.) Our Marketing Expert Panel Kamila Zawadzka - Marketing Lead, The Orange Studio Michael J. Goldrich - Founder & Chief Advisor, Vivander Moriya Rockman - Chief of Marketing, Smiling House Luxury Global Max
How Hotels Use Revenue Tools for Trend Prediction and Guest Insights
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: How can hospitality organisations leverage revenue management tools more effectively to uncover deeper insights into guest behaviour and forecast booking patterns with greater accuracy? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Chaya Kowal - Director of Revenue Management, Potato Head Family Pablo Torres - Hotel Consultant Massimiliano Terzulli - Revenue Management Consultant, Franco Grasso Revenue Team Mariska van Heemskerk - Owner, Revenue Management
Hospitality Leaders Reflect on Career Lessons and Growth Tips
Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel Knowing what you know now about career paths, developing skills and gaining experience in the hospitality industry, what advice would you give to your younger self on first entering the workforce? Our Marketing Expert Panel
9 Top Tips for Effective Pricing Strategies for Hotels & Resorts
An effective, data-driven room pricing strategy is the cornerstone of hotel distribution management, with the ultimate goal of finding the ideal price per room that ensures you can maximize revenue without losing guests to competing properties. 9 Effective Strategies for Rate Pricing While overall rate optimization is the main objective,
Why Context is Everything in Hotel Analytics: Six Real-World Lessons
In hotel management, numbers are everywhere: dashboards, reports, presentations. These numbers offer a sense of control and clarity. But numbers on their own don’t tell the full story. Relying on isolated metrics can lead to misguided strategies, missed opportunities, and costly mistakes. It’s the context that brings meaning to the