The hotelier’s guide to TripAdvisor – a round-up
Love it, hate it, respect it or loathe it, TripAdvisor is a goliath of the travel industry and affects your hotel whether you know it or not.
Insights, best practices and news from the accommodation and tourism industry.
Love it, hate it, respect it or loathe it, TripAdvisor is a goliath of the travel industry and affects your hotel whether you know it or not.
The new year brings with it a sense of revival. New budgets are forecast and plans devised to make the year ahead a fruitful one, allowing hotel owners to redesign their offerings and cater for the ever-evolving needs of guests.
A well-designed questionnaire can give you invaluable insight into the general guest experience and overall quality of your hotel. A bad one will not only generate very little feedback, but annoy guests in the process.
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The tourism trade contributed about US$7.2 trillion to the global economy in 2015, and with so much wealth at stake, you can be certain that the accommodation market is going to remain hugely competitive. Unfortunately for hoteliers,...
Online travel agents, social media and review sites are fantastic places for prospective travellers to scout for information that will help them choose the right hotels, activities, and restaurants for them, but the online world is also a...
In the modern travel market, online travel agents have successfully retained the lion's share of online travel bookings made by users – according to a 2016 Phocuswright study, 66% of British travellers booked their accommodation through an...
Have you ever noticed that there is often some disconnect between a rating you received from a guest in an online review and the comment they wrote with it? This happens more often than you think – and even galvanised a team from Cornell...
While the old saying may claim there’s no such thing as a free lunch, that doesn’t stop some unscrupulous guests from blackmailing freebies out of hotel management.
By now it’s no secret that social media is an invaluable sidekick when it comes to building a brand and engaging with customers. And there are almost no platforms better than the little blue bird.
It is officially time to stop giving lip service to being ’mobile friendly’, and optimise. Not only does today's traveller expect your site to be mobile friendly, but not being easily discoverable or bookable on mobile will lose you money.