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The most effective way to be really successful in business is by challenging the status quo. Especially in a highly saturated industry like hotels, to compete and outperform the market you need a disruptive business model which delivers on a level competition cannot reach. There are many options to disrupt your local hotel market ...
Do you know what the conversion % is of your hotel's reservations department? We seem to put a lot of focus on our website conversion statistics, but how many calls are we actually converting in to bookings. Phone sales is a very important direct sales channel for hotels, consumers are making the effort to contact you directly, and should be easy to convert. Why is it though that many hotels have such a poor sales process? Is hotel management not on the ball ?
Yes 2012 will be all about distribution in the hotel industry. There are some major developments that demand attention of hoteliers in order to stay in control of the market mix and distribution cost. Here some of the hot topics of next year: Google Hotel Finder, Meta-Search and Rate Parity, OTA Commission Levels, Direct Sales …
I actually would like to rephrase this. I recommend to stop all online marketing spend. Just kick it out of your budget. Save some cost for a change. I simply would like to take back what I wrote in previous blog posts, and what I said during any of our seminars and workshops about hotel internet marketing and social media marketing. I now run a 100 room hotel and I have got it all figured out .
Last month we discussed the apparent need for hotels to implement a Revenue Management strategy for their spa in order to maximize the profitability of their business. So let’s now take a closer look, and define the Key Performance Indicators that need to be measured.
Where to start when implementing a hotel marketing strategy? How to promote a hotel with the internet moving so rapidly with new developments every day, week and month … Here is a 10 step plan on how to market a hotel.
Last week Htel Serviced apartments reached the number 1 spot on Tripadvisor on specialty lodging. And we'd like to celebrate this with them. Here's a short version of what happened to Htel Serviced Apartments, and the implementation of a Hotel Social Media Marketing campaign that got them to this spot.
There seems a lot of disagreement if blogging is still effective in the days of micro-blogging sites like Twitter and age of social media like FaceBook. At Xotels we have been managing hotel blogs, and are achieving good results through a well thought out strategy. And this is the key for hotel internet marketing; you need a plan to get somewhere.