What Marketing Strategies can Hotels use to Grow Direct Bookings?
Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel What marketing strategies can accommodation providers use to increase direct bookings? What % of total bookings should direct bookings represent? What is the minimum that hoteliers should aim for? Our Marketing Expert Panel Daphne Beers - Owner, Your-Q Hospitality Academy Adele Gutman - Culture and Guest Experience Expert, Hospitality Reputation Marketing Podcast Tamie Matthews - Revenue, Sales & Marketing Consultant, RevenYou
Room Attendant Guide; Meaning, Job Description, Duties & Technology
The room attendant's role is vital to hotels because it can have a huge bearing on presentation and overall customer satisfaction levels. In this article, you can learn all there is to know about the job, including a definition, an outline of the key duties and responsibilities, and an overview of associated technology. Table of Contents: What is a Room Attendant in a Hotel? The Importance of Hotel Housekeeping 5 Main Duties of a Housekeeping
Hotel Housekeeping Guide: 11 Tips & Tricks to Clean Your Hotel
Hotel housekeeping is one of the most important elements of customer service because all guests want to stay in a clean, tidy, comfortable, aesthetically appealing hotel that is organized or arranged appropriately. In this article, you can learn some tricks and strategies for keeping your hotel just as guests like it. Table of Contents: What is Hotel Housekeeping? Devising a Hotel Housekeeping Strategy Using Your Hotel PMS for Housekeeping Housekeeping Trolley: The Most Crucial Tool
How can Hotels Overcome Challenges around Rate Parity?
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: Rate parity continues to pose challenges for hotel revenue managers. What are the top recommendations to resolve rate parity issues? (Question proposed by Tamie Matthews) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Pablo Torres - Hotel Consultant, TSA Solutions Nikolas Hall - Owner, H. Hall Consulting Krunal Shah - Cluster Director of Revenue, Dorsett Hospitality International Fabian Bartnick - Founder, Infinito Tanya Hadwick
Check Out Hotel Processes: Tips to Optimize Guest Check Outs
A check out hotel process is the procedure a hotel requires guests to go through when departing at the end of their stay. This is typically the stage where the customer settles the bill and returns their room key. The hotel check-out process is important because customers want a smooth, swift exit. It is a final chance for your hotel to impress guests and can even be the difference in whether or not you earn a positive review. In this article, you can access tips to optimize guest checkouts and learn about different types of checkout processes. Table of Contents:
Top 3 Hotel Rate Parity Issues and How to Fix Them
Are you a hotelier struggling to maintain rate parity in today's ever-changing hospitality industry? If so, you're not alone. Despite the challenges of the last few years, rate parity remains a significant issue for hotels, and it's only getting more complicated. Top 3 Hotel Rate Parity Issues As a result of the pandemic, many hotels focused on generating short-term business and revenue, often at the expense of rate parity. However, maintaining consistency across distribution channels
Mastering Ancillary Revenue: Key Lessons and Strategies
A revenue management strategy is a common practice among hotels. What’s less common is having an ancillary revenue strategy, though. Nevertheless, it’s beneficial for hotels to have one. It’s one of the first steps to unlocking a new, powerful revenue stream and improving the hotel’s positioning and branding while enhancing the guest experience. Here’s a closer look at the other attractive benefits and how to implement this strategy. What Is Hotel Ancillary Revenue, and Why
Metaverse Tourism: Overview, Benefits, Examples and More
The idea of the metaverse has existed since the 1990s and has become a more well-known concept recently as technology has advanced. This has opened up metaverse tourism opportunities, which businesses in the sector are keen to capitalize on. In this post, you will find details on the metaverse as
6 Easy Ways to Spruce Up Your Hotel’s Website
Have you ever seen a great deal online and hesitated once you reached the seller’s website? Most of us spend a lot of time on the Internet, and we develop a sense of which websites are legitimate and which aren’t. Most people are reluctant to spend their money on a
Hotel Maintenance Tips to Optimize & Increase Profitability
Hotel maintenance staff have a crucial role to play in the success of a property because they are responsible for ensuring technology, equipment, and facilities are in full working order and for fixing problems when they arise. In this hotel maintenance guide, you can access tips to optimize your maintenance