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Tripadvisor is the world’s largest travel site, and, as such, cannot be ignored by serious hoteliers. Having an active Tripadvisor listing has become almost compulsory for your hotel’s image, and this is achieved by ensuring that as many...
Gone are the days when hoteliers had to physically visit their competitors’ establishments or send their friends over to “spy” on them. With the advent of online review sites and online travel agencies (OTAs), your competitors can see...
By now, almost every hotelier is doing online reputation management (ORM) of some sort, even if that only means checking their Tripadvisor reviews once a month and giving themselves a congratulatory pat on the back or having a quick cry in...
Collecting email addresses from people, like any other personal information, is becoming increasingly difficult. People are suspicious of any attempt to collect personal data, some for strangely paranoid reasons, some because they have...
You can get more direct bookings by enhancing your presence on online travel agencies (OTAs). It sounds odd, doesn’t it? But no, we have not lost our minds. A 2013 WIHP study observed that 20% of direct bookings happen after someone sees a...
There are several long-term approaches to social media and plenty of theory behind it that will deepen your understanding of the social media phenomenon and allow you to create fantastic social media marketing strategies – but no one has...
Online reputation management (ORM) used to be a rather obscure term, mainly just something for massive hotel chains to worry about. But, since the rise of social media sites, online travel agencies (OTAs) like booking.com and review sites...