best practices
Best Practices for Displaying Special Offers on Your Website
Special offers play a major role in your hotel website's overall complexion to help drive direct bookings. Here's how you do it properly.
Looks Matter for Corporate Bookings: What Hotels May be Missing on GDSs
When you break it down, hotel distribution is a complicated labyrinth of massive databases, each with its own purpose. Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport (which includes Galileo, Worldspan, and Apollo), connect a database of hotel inventory to travel agents around the world. Travel agents and tour operators continue to make up a [...]
Maintaining Brand Integrity Starts with Technology: Secure Your Hotel Media Management
Great photography defines a brand. Beautiful photos show off the careful decisions your hotels made to look their best. Don’t put all that at risk by sharing hotel photos by email, Dropbox, or, even worse, USB key. There are asset management solutions specifically designed for the needs of the hospitality industry. When a [...]
The World’s Best Captions and Short Descriptions in Hospitality Marketing
Find out the best practices for writing captions and short descriptions for your online images in the hospitality industry.
Highlights from the Best Ever HSMAI Digital Marketing Conference
Highlights from HSMAI's annual Digital Marketing Strategy Conference in New York. From macro Trends, to SEO and social media, see what's shaping hotel marketing in 2017.
Building a Winning Social Media Strategy – Insights From Our Webinar
We had so many questions roll in from our audience during January's webinar, "How to Build a Winning Social Media Strategy," we couldn't answer them all! Guest speaker, Greg Bodenair, has kindly taken the time to answer some of them in this article.
Webinar Recap: How to Build a Winning Social Media Strategy
In our latest webinar, we were joined by Greg Bodenair, Area Marketing Manager for Kimpton Hotels of Boston & Cambridge, to get the scoop on how to build a winning social media strategy with trackable ROI.
How TripAdvisor’s Algorithm Works & How to Rank Higher
TripAdvisor reviews are an important part of the travel shopping journey. So what can you do to ensure your property listing gets seen by more people? In this article we outline how TripAdvisor’s Popularity Ranking algorithm works and what you can do to improve your ranking.
Intrusive Pop-Ups To Be Punished by Google
In an attempt to improve the browsing experience on mobile devices, Google will begin penalizing mobile websites with intrusive pop ups on January 10, 2017.
How We Used Storytelling to Build an Effective Hotel Website – One That Converts!
Storytelling can help you get more business through your website, and it's not hard to get started. Woody Hinkle shares how he did it for Sunset at the Palms in Negril, Jamaica.