Your weekend bookings are amazing. Too bad every day can’t be Friday, Saturday, or Sunday! Unfortunately, the average Wednesday is lackluster, even during peak season. How can you get your hotel occupancy rate up, even during the middle of any given week? Here are some hotel marketing ideas that may help.
Read >Yield. It’s ensuring you're getting the best possible outcome from everything you do as a hotel marketing manager. Increasing that yield is one of the biggest issues facing the hospitality industry today.
Read >The market is flooded with online travel agencies; it seems like a new service pops up at least once a quarter. Online travel agencies (OTAs) can be quite helpful when it comes to filling up unsold rooms and making it through the slow season, but generating more direct bookings brings a much more advantageous revenue stream. More direct bookings equal a healthier bottom line.
Read >It’s time to have a discussion about conversion. All the traffic in the world will not translate into booked rooms and profitability if you lack the ability or capacity to convert. Your online presence plays a starring role here. Let’s shine the spotlight on how effective hotel website design can drive your brand toward its goals and objectives.
Read >Overwhelmed by the thought of developing a comprehensive - ultra-effective - hotel marketing plan? It is a major endeavor, but one with the potential for significant returns on your investment and time. Ready to increase your visibility, traffic, conversion rates, and profits? We thought so!
Read >One of the difficult aspects of trying to make a hotel more profitable is that you have to wear a number of hats. You have to be able to juggle accounting with HR with PR. Leveraging hotel online marketing is one more - potent - trick you can pull out of your hat. Here we’re going to break down hotel SEO, so you can enhance your internet presence - and increase your direct bookings.
Read >Hotel social media marketing is key to building a thriving brand in today’s fast-paced world. Are you leveraging Facebook to its full potential?
Read >Digital has revolutionized the hotel industry; it did so - and continues to do so - largely by influencing and expanding consumer expectations. While technology has changed the face of hotel digital marketing, more fundamentally, it has altered what guests want and need from their accommodations.
Read >Great location: check. Comfortable, clean rooms: check. Terrific amenities: check. Killer value-adds (hello, evening reception with wine and snacks, passes to location attractions, and even free parking in some cities!): check.
Read >Hotel SEO is a bit like a puzzle; no, it’s not that it’s difficult (though it is complex). It’s that there is a variety of pieces. When they come together correctly, they form a complete picture. And when they don’t… well, you have a pile of disparate pieces. When you follow best practices, though, a picture begins to emerge.
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