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MARCH 15, 2024

Direct booking plugins are apps that will further reduce your reliance on OTAs by bringing more features and greater functionality to your existing booking engine.

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JULY 11, 2024

In the not-so-distant past, hotel PMS were glorified booking engines, handling reservations and basic operations like housekeeping. Fast forward to today, and the hospitality world demands a PMS that can juggle more than just bookings.

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JULY 23, 2024

The majority of our rooms are booked online.” Despite the pundits’ predictions, the phones continue to ring with incoming reservations leads even now in the mid-2020s, and yes, even at branded hotels across all segments. I’m sure some readers are thinking “Well not us.

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JULY 24, 2024

Bookings for the Grand Prix began as early as December 2023, significantly impacting hotel demand. This early surge in reservations has led to an unprecedented increase in hotel occupancy rates, with many premium and centrally located hotels reporting near-full bookings months in advance.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

This innovative partnership aims to enhance the guest experience by promoting and streamlining real-time spa bookings through Crave in-room tablets, AppLess mobile and web solutions.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Mobile bookings are now a common method of securing hotel reservations. Guests can easily research and book travel from their smartphones, making mobile bookings incredibly convenient.

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MARCH 22, 2024

A hotel booking app is an application or website that travellers use to book a stay at a hotel. Often travellers will use apps via their mobile devices to research, book, and pay for hotel accommodation. Some well known examples of hotel booking apps include Booking.com, Airbnb, or HotelTonight.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

A higher booking window indicates strong occupancy and revenue guaranteed in advance. The company forecast third-quarter room night growth to be between 3% to 5%, compared to 7.1% growth in the second quarter and 14.9% growth in the year-ago quarter.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holiday bookings refer to the reservations made by individuals or groups for accommodation, travel, and other related services during their vacation period.

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JUNE 14, 2024

Join Daniel Foreman and Jeff Eskew from Lighthouse’s Revenue Strategy Services team as they unravel the critical role of demand drivers in shaping the booking curve. Transform your approach to booking strategies with insights that empower you to make informed, data-driven decisions.

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MAY 30, 2024

Even in today’s digital age, the voice channel remains powerful for hotel bookings. Our 2024 Hospitality Benchmark Report found that the voice channel maintains the highest average booking value of any channel, and outbound call campaigns can net properties an additional $1,717 per room each year on average.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Hotels looking to increase booking conversions and customer conversations should consider using custom landing pages in combination with their social media marketing efforts.

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MAY 13, 2024

If you’re looking for avenues to amplify revenue and create a more loyal guest base, look towards fine-tuning your hotel’s direct booking strategy.

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JUNE 12, 2023

In the hospitality world, where competition is fierce and the consumer is king, offering attractive direct booking benefits is not just a complementary strategy—it’s a potential game-changer.

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JULY 23, 2023

A hotel booking site, also known as an online travel agency (OTA), is a platform where travellers can book accommodations over the internet. These sites often provide comprehensive information about the hotel, including room availability, amenities, prices, location, and user reviews.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

To help you efficiently and effectively boost bookings and meet your advertising goals, our digital experts consistently analyze our exclusive first-party data. This data contains valuable insights including travel trends, market conditions, travel intent, and more.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

with the introduction of an unprecedented Web3 hotel booking interface. Excitement abounds at Sleap.io takes a bold step into the travel future, weaving together advanced decentralized technology and cryptocurrency, setting a new standard in user experience.

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JUNE 13, 2024

This year, we are focusing on Hotel Direct Bookings and we are inviting hotel chains up from 3 properties to provide their feedback. Your participation in this study will help the industry better understand hotel direct booking strategies and tactics, as well as emerging trends.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Paris hotel bookings for the 2024 Summer Olympics are pacing above 60%, according to CoStar’s latest Forward STAR data. CoStar is a leading provider of online real estate marketplaces, information, and analytics in the property markets.

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MAY 13, 2024

Meeting and event booking sites have created a flood of leads, which can be overwhelming for those working in a sales role equipped and staffed for the era when leads came in by phone or website inquiry forms. Today’s hotel and event salespeople work in completely different environments than most of their leaders experienced.

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MAY 13, 2024

Meeting and event booking sites have created a flood of leads, which can be overwhelming for those working in a sales role equipped and staffed for the era when leads came in by phone or website inquiry forms. Today’s hotel and event salespeople work in completely different environments than most of their leaders experienced.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Comparing data for both months with the same period in 2023, SiteMinder also reveals that the total volume of bookings in the country has increased by 29%. This is according to SiteMinder, the name behind the only software platform that unlocks the full revenue potential of hotels.

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JULY 29, 2024

ATLANTA, Georgia, United States, July 29, 2024 – Shiji proudly announces the successful implementation of a WeChat booking engine for S Hotels & Resorts’ SAii hotel brand, marking a significant leap forward in guest convenience and accessibility.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Group bookings across the industry’s largest portfolio of economy and midscale hotels will soon take minutes—not days—thanks to Groups360 and the rapid rollout of over 5,600 Wyndham hotels to the GroupSync™ Marketplace.

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JULY 17, 2023

Who would have thought that two junior accounting clerks working in Food and Beverage Control (a department that doesn’t even exist anymore) would be writing a book—and a Foreword for said book? Yet, here we are, with career paths that intersected through CP Hotels and Fairmont Hotels over the last forty years.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Shaw has unveiled her new book, “Who Watches the Kitchen?” With 48 million people falling victim to preventable foodborne illnesses annually, Shaw’s book hopes to serve as a beacon of knowledge. Her book looks at the life of a health inspector, addressing issues and experiences that inspectors often shy away from discussing publicly.

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MAY 12, 2023

Inspirational, educational, and chock full of tips and tricks to familiarize yourself with the inner workings of the hospitality industry—including links to online videos to supplement your learning—this book puts financial literacy at your fingertips.

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JUNE 11, 2024

P3 Hotel Software, a leading innovator in hotel booking solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its groundbreaking new product module, P3 Ancillary.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Data from SiteMinder, the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, reveals that hotel bookings for September in Spain are off to their strongest start in five years. SiteMinder’s World Hotel Index shows that hotel bookings in Spain are currently at 116.3% of 2019 volumes – 10.8% higher than the global average. of 2019 levels.

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JUNE 5, 2024

In this episode of the Hotel Moment podcast, Karen Stephens, Revinate CMO, and Kathleen Cullen, Executive Vice President at PTG Consulting, explore the ways that hoteliers are leaving money on the table and why change starts and ends with a direct booking strategy.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, with the rise of social media and online booking platforms in recent decades, the process of travel planning has become fragmented and largely impersonal. These seasoned experts tailored recommendations based on your specific needs as opposed to the masses.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

SiteMinder’s Hotel Booking Trends is the most authoritative analysis of the hotel bookings made by the world’s travellers. Findings from the report are based on more than 40,000 hotel customers, which in 2023 used SiteMinder’s platform to secure more than 115 million bookings valued at more than US$45 billion in revenue.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

As part of the initiative, Sheraton and Reese’s Book Club (RBC), a part of Candle Media’s Hello Sunshine, have partnered to launch the first-ever Reese’s Book Club x Sheraton Lobby Library at select Sheraton locations worldwide.

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JULY 5, 2024

Together, they discuss the technical and financial aspects of providing a weather guarantee and how Sensible partners with hotels and booking platforms to integrate this service seamlessly into the booking flow. In this episode of Hotel Moment, host Karen Stephens is joined by Nick Cavanaugh, Founder and CEO of Sensible Weather.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Building international booking volumes remain the driving force behind Portugal’s booming summer of travel. This is according to new data from SiteMinder, the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform.

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APRIL 30, 2024

In today’s digital age, a user-centered hotel website plays a crucial role in attracting and converting potential guests into bookings. With travelers increasingly relying on the internet to research and book accommodations, having a website that prioritizes user experience and meets their needs is of utmost importance.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This case study focuses on a hotel company aiming to boost bookings for their branded hotel in the United States. Prior to engaging with our services, the company had experimented with Google Ads but had not achieved the desired outcomes.

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