Hotelogix

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This blog outlines simple, actionable strategies that hotels of all sizes can use to grow their business, from direct bookings to pricing strategies and everything in between. While OTAs help bring in new customers, relying too heavily on them can hurt your bottom line. This builds trust and encourages them to avoid OTAs.

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Hotelogix

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Not only this, a Hotel PMS plays a crucial role when it comes to helping you with all crucial business-related data, otherwise known as KPIs. Hotel night audit evaluates and closes daily cash flow into and out of the hotel’s account and it ensures the rollover from one business day to the next day.

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STAAH

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Tip for Hoteliers: Look for a cloud-based PMS that allows real-time updates, offers mobile access, and can easily scale as your business grows. Channel Manager Managing multiple distribution channels, from Online Travel Agents (OTAs) to direct bookings, can be complex without the right tools.

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Hotel Business

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Unified reservations handling: The enhanced connection facilitates seamless booking updates between Cloudbeds and Sabre, ensuring that every reservationwhether from OTAs, direct bookings or GDSis immediately logged in the Cloudbeds PMS.

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STAAH

MARCH 17, 2024

The Indian hotel no longer struggles with the aftermath of manual inventory and rate management, including overbookings and loss of staff efficiency. It offers free parking and multiple facilities, including a well-equipped fitness centre, restaurants and a business centre. It also resulted in lost staff morale.

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Hotelogix

OCTOBER 4, 2024

For small and mid-size hotels, having the right OTA ( Online Travel Agencies ) channel manager is critical. Choosing the right OTA channel manager can streamline your hotel’s online distribution strategy, prevent overbookings, and boost overall profitability. This prevents overbookings and reduces manual work.

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STAAH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Spread across vast acres of lush green land in Kampala, Uganda, Dolphin Suites is a thoughtful oasis for business and leisure travellers alike. The striking brick hotel sits amidst the quiet countryside while also offering guests access to the bustling business district of Kampala.

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Hotelogix

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Online Travel Agents for hotels or OTAs serve as important distribution channels for hotels. OTAs are online platforms or websites that sell hotel rooms to customers. An excellent marketing strategy incorporates OTAs to boost sales and revenue. These statistics show why OTAs are essential for hotels.

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Hotel Speak

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

26, 2024 – Cloudbeds, the hospitality management platform powering more reservations and happier guests for independent lodging businesses around the globe, today released its 2024 State of Independent Lodging Report. Online travel agencies (OTAs) have returned stronger than ever. In 2023, OTAs generated 60.5%

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SiteMinder

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As the largest hotel in Dalat with many room types, Terracotta Resort was in a situation where inventory management on more than 10 OTA channels became increasingly difficult,” said Mr. Triết, “The inability to update rooms and rates immediately is a potential obstacle to revenue flow and a constant obstacle for employees.

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STAAH

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The need to solve a juggling act Featuring multiple room types and being connected to a number of OTAs as well as their own booking engine meant that staff at River Beach Resort & Residences spent a considerable time updating availability and rates across every channel.

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Hotel Speak

AUGUST 13, 2024

A popular and cost-effective way to optimise this visibility is to leverage the Billboard Effect – where hotels can advertise for free on third-party websites, like Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) and metasearch platforms. Online visibility leads to occupancy.

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Hotel Speak

JULY 24, 2024

Hotels have worked with third parties such as airlines, travel agents, online travel agents (OTAs) and the Global Distribution System (GDS) for decades. However – based on the experience in France where rate parity has been disregarded since 2014 – it could in fact lead to a loss of direct business.

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SiteMinder

MARCH 25, 2025

For example, during peak travel periods, an efficient reservations manager using a modern property management system (PMS) can swiftly allocate room blocks for group bookings or special events, maximising occupancy without overbooking. Efficiently managing OTAs and direct bookings is key to maintaining high occupancy rates.

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Hotelogix

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Introduction: The Hidden Revenue Killer for Hotels Did you know that hotels utilizing a mix of OTAs, metasearch engines, and direct booking strategies experience significantly higher revenue growth than those relying on a single channel? The 5 Most Powerful OTAs in the USA (You Can’t Ignore These!) Why use niche OTAs?

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STAAH

JULY 7, 2024

CityBlue is a borderless, branded group of business-centric hotels in Eastern and Southern Africa’s major cities, supported by a world-class digital infrastructure. As an African-born business which was founded in 2013 with immense passion, the ambition of this decade is to consolidate CityBlue as Africa’s fastest-growing local hotel chain.

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SiteMinder

MAY 21, 2023

With a two-way connection between the hotel and online travel agents (OTAs), the PMS automatically updates reservations made through any online booking channel. This eliminates manual updates, increases bookings and revenue, and eliminates concerns about overbooking or missing bookings.

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SiteMinder

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Tripadvisor owner login is a gateway for hotel owners and operators to manage their business listings on Tripadvisor. Table of contents Why should hotels use the Tripadvisor business login? Using the Tripadvisor business login can make a big difference in how you manage your hotel online. What is the Tripadvisor owner login?

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STAAH

MAY 5, 2024

Coordinating availability across multiple channels was a cumbersome task, often leading to overbookings or missed opportunities. Setting up new online travel agents (OTA) channels during and after the initial set-up was simple. The platform’s reliability and efficiency helped mitigate disruptions and ensured continued business success.

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STAAH

JULY 23, 2023

Hotel Span International (Cochin), a 4-star business hotel with an inventory of 37 rooms deployed STAAH’s Channel Manager in 2018, resulting in an impressive 80% surge in direct online bookings. The hotel struggled with overbooking during peak seasons and rate disparities leading to errors and irate customers.

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Little Hotelier

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Since then, she has hired two staff members and expanded her business to nine distinct rooms. Shortly after that trip, I went live with Little Hotelier, and it was the best business decision I’ve made.” We recently sat down to chat about her business success and the role Little Hotelier has played in it. That’s a huge relief.”

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Inn Quest

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By implementing an inventory tracking system, hotels can minimize underbooking, reduce overbooking risks, set competitive prices and provide a seamless guest experience, ultimately leading to increased revenue and improved operational efficiency. This prevents overbooking and rate disparities, enhancing the guest experience.

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STAAH

APRIL 16, 2024

Integration with Distribution Channels: Seamless integration with distribution channels such as online travel agents (OTAs) , global distribution system (GDS) , and direct booking channels is essential for efficient inventory management and distribution. Scalability and Flexibility: As your hotel grows, so should your RMS.

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Little Hotelier

JULY 14, 2024

Room management simplified In the early days of opening, the business suffered very few teething issues since it began life backed by Little Hotelier’s all-in-one solution – perfect for small properties. “I It’s ideal for new business owners.” For him, customers mean everything.

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Little Hotelier

JULY 20, 2023

Channel automation and integration to manage different bookings Since the beginning of its activity, SoloQui B&B has focused on the online presence, thus being available on several OTAs. With the booking engine, we guarantee guests all the simplicity offered by OTAs with lower accommodation costs.

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SiteMinder

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The modern, community-oriented, Ariv Apartments in Zug, Cham, offer an option for expats and business travellers looking for flexible stays ranging from one night to three months. Thanks to this automation, the risk of overbookings or double bookings has significantly decreased, leading to higher customer satisfaction.

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Hotelogix

APRIL 4, 2025

No guests = No hotel Guests are your business's lifeblood. 👉 Read Also - Master Hotel Overbooking: Strategies That Work Hold onto your room keys, because the average consumer is reading a whopping 10 reviews before they trust a business. Stay on top of your online presence to prevent PR nightmares.

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SiteMinder

MAY 2, 2023

They told us about how SiteMinder has improved their day-to-day business and even helped them to increase their online sales. We used to manually manage our profiles and rates across different OTAs and our website. At the same time, availability is adjusted across all channels, which reduces the risk of overbookings. “We

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Hotelogix

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Not sure how online travel agencies (OTAs) work Social media feels overwhelming Don’t know how to manage online reviews Here’s what you can do: Start small: Pick one platform (like Facebook) and master it before moving on. Partner with local businesses: Team up with nearby restaurants or tour guides.

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SiteMinder

MARCH 20, 2024

Fon Panananda Leeyawatanakul , Director of Sales , about the business and finding success with SiteMinder’s platform. Knowing by now that smart solutions are required to grow businesses and achieve success, Fon was glad to join Neera since it had already committed to leveraging the best technology available. We recently spoke to Ms.

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SiteMinder

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

“SiteMinder creates a seamless reservation process that saves us several hours of manual work every week and drastically reduces the risk of unwanted overbookings,” Jon highlights. It’s way easier to try additional channels now because SiteMinder connects to so many OTAs”, he said. But adding partners used to be challenging.

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Xotels

MARCH 3, 2025

Guest actions Who makes direct bookings versus through OTAs, and how can you influence them? Channel Management System Managing multiple OTAs, your website, and other channels manually? That’s a recipe for overbookings and lost revenue. Reduce dependence on OTAs and drive more traffic to your website.

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Little Hotelier

MAY 12, 2024

As a new business, it was vital to attract customers and create business turnover. When we first started the business, we didn’t know which channels to sell through and what to do if overbooking occurs when selling through multiple channels at the same time,” said Licha.

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Hotelogix

APRIL 18, 2024

What induces anxiety and ennui in those who manage such businesses Well, we asked this question to hundreds of hoteliers in the past few months and came up with this word cloud that you see below. Depending on where a hotelier is in their business journey, a particular set of pain points seems to take precedence over others.

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Cloudbeds

JULY 15, 2023

For growing hospitality businesses, a channel manager is a fundamental part of successful revenue management and distribution strategy. In this guide for hospitality professionals, you’ll learn all about Channel Managers, from how they work to what makes great software for your business specifically. What is a channel manager?

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SiteMinder

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Agoda, being one of the leading online travel agencies (OTAs), provides a vast and valuable audience. In the cases of the best hotel channel managers , this availability is then synced across all other OTAs as well, such as Booking.com – a channel manager is OTA agnostic.

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STAAH

OCTOBER 18, 2022

From before they arrive and visit third-party sites or OTAs to look for accommodation or online reviews to your website, email communications and the actual stay – everything contributes towards guest experience. Do you leverage a business website to drive direct bookings? Clever ideas to improve guest experience. #1 Mobile friendly.

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