How to Get Started With Google Hotel Ads
Where do you start your online search for products and services like hotels? Good chance it is Google. Google Hotel Ads has been the fastest-growing metasearch engine across all regions since its debut. In this article, you'll learn how to increase your visibility in Google Search, resulting in a growth of hotel bookings. Google Hotel Ads: How it All Started There was a time, not long ago, when the typical booking process involved, chronologically: More
Protecting Your Hotel’s Cash Flow & Improving Asset Valuation
Hotel revenue management plays a central role in protecting, forecasting, and strengthening a hotel's cash flow and overall financial position by enhancing the cash position of the asset. Additional revenue generated by a revenue management system directly flows into the amount of cash available. This higher rate of cash flow—combined with detailed forecasts that enable expense management—has a number of benefits critical to operating through this era of business disruption. Cash Is King From giving
How to Hire the Best Hotel Staff for Your Hotel?
It is impossible to run a successful hotel without hiring the right hotel staff. After all, success in the industry relies hugely on customer service, and many additional tasks and duties need to be carried out. For instance, most hotels need marketers, receptionists, HR staff, accountants, cleaners, IT support workers, chefs, waiters, concierge staff, etc. Here, you will find tips on how to hire the best hotel staff for your needs. Table of Contents: Reasons
Is a CRM Essential For Delivering Personalised Hotel Experiences?
Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel Personalised guest experiences are becoming increasingly important and maintaining rich guest profiles helps hotels deliver on preferences and anticipate needs. Is a CRM essential for personalisation? Our Marketing Expert Panel Adele Gutman - Culture and Guest Experience Expert, Hospitality Reputation Marketing Podcast Thomas Dieben - Founder, Becurious Tamie Matthews - Revenue, Sales & Marketing Consultant, RevenYou Reshan Jayamanne - Digital
Revenue Management System: Not Just for Booms, but for Bumps Too
When a big event is on the horizon, expectations run high. You plan for full occupancy, increase your rates, and prepare your team. But what happens when the bookings don’t come as expected? That’s when a revenue management system becomes more than a nice-to-have. In this article, we’ll explore how a revenue management system (RMS) helps hoteliers navigate that gap between forecast and reality, using real examples from the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel and Germany’s rate-capped Euro summer. The Real Test of RMS? When Things Don’t Go to Plan We say it all the time: the real magic
Interview with CEO and Co-founder Ari Andricopoulos of RoomPriceGenie
We're interviewing Ari Andricopoulos, the CEO and Co-founder of RoomPriceGenie. Ari developed automation that helps hoteliers determine the best pricing policy for any given moment. It's not just a flat number, either. But as an easy-to-understand analysis that both provides advice and explains the reasoning behind the decisions. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? Before RoomPriceGenie, I spent fifteen years creating trading algorithms as a partner
11 Hotel Marketing Podcasts Every Hotel Professional Should Listen To
Hotel marketing podcasts offer an excellent way for hotel professionals to access advice, learn new techniques and strategies, and hear first-hand insights and experiences from marketing experts. In this article, you can explore the rise of hotel marketing podcasts and read a list of 11 of the best podcasts available. Table of Contents: The Hotel Industry Explained What Are Hotel Marketing Podcasts? Why Is It Beneficial to Listen to Hotel Marketing Podcasts? Top 11 Hotel
Changes in Post-Covid Breakdown of Direct Vs OTA Bookings for Hotels
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: When reviewing the number of direct website bookings Vs OTA bookings, have you seen any difference in this breakdown post-Covid? Has there been a shift in B2B and B2C? (Question by Ricardo Sereno) Our Revenue
Mythbusters: Revenue Management Technology
Do you run a smaller hotel or B&B that uses only manual processes to manage all your reservations, pricing, and inventory allocation? Have you avoided implementing technology to help support your internal operations because you worried that the solutions would cause more problems than they would solve? If so, then
Marketing to Millennial Travelers: 5 Strategies for Hotels in 2023 & Beyond
Marketing to millennial travelers has become a top priority for many hotels and resorts. The generation travels at higher rates than any other, but considering their unique shopping behaviors and expectations is a must. Here are five tips for successfully marketing to millennial travelers. Marketing to Millennial Generation Millennials are