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SiteMinder: Traveler confidence surges post-pandemic

Hotel Business

SiteMinder’s new Hotel Booking Trends report, a hotel commerce data analysis of more than 36,000 hotels and 450+ connected booking integrations, has revealed travelers booked their trips on average eight days earlier, and canceled their bookings 17% less year-on-year in 2022, despite a 24% increase in the average daily hotel room rate.

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What is a booking engine? How to increase profitability and direct bookings

Cloudbeds

Many hoteliers question if it’s worthwhile investing in a direct booking strategy or if they can solely rely on online travel agencies (OTAs) like Airbnb, Booking.com, or Trip.com to fill occupancy. Integrating with these engines and offering real-time pricing and availability ensures that guests book directly instead of with an OTA.

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Why properties should consider midterm bookings this summer

SiteMinder

Additional data from SiteMinder’s Hotel Booking Trends indicated that the average length of stay is also on the rise, with 2022 recording longer stays than previous years. This was particularly true for Spain in summer, which had the longest average stay length in August.

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Hotel investment: What is a good hotel ROI?

Little Hotelier

With their scale and global reach OTAs provide hotels with a cost-effective way to increase bookings on a pay-per-performance basis. And the most effective way to navigate the world of OTAs is with the use of a channel manager that will allow you manage your connections through one platform.

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How decision intelligence unlocks hotel data for better insights

Cloudbeds

Consider booking patterns, cancellation rates, average length of stay, guest preferences for room amenities or dietary restrictions, website and app metrics, competitor rates, and market trends—the list goes on. Decision intelligence unifies the full range of pricing decision-making through both OTAs and direct bookings.

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SiteMinder’s Hotel Booking Trends: New analysis of 100 million reservations shows surge in global traveller confidence for 2023

SiteMinder

SiteMinder’s new Hotel Booking Trends report, the only hotel commerce data analysis of more than 35,000 hotels and 450+ connected booking integrations, has revealed travellers booked their trips on average eight days earlier, and cancelled their bookings 17% less year-on-year in 2022, despite a 24% increase in the average daily hotel room rate.

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Reaction to KeyData Article About Trends Heading into 2024

TravelNet

Occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR are all down compared to 2021 and 2022 (but higher than 2019); booking windows and average length of stay are down, and; shoulder season performance is slightly up. KeyData’s October 2023 overview of industry trends reveals a few potentially worrisome trends as we head into 2024.