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How to be present for your guests at every stage of their hotel booking journey?

STAAH

The booking can be via an OTA, your website or other travel companies. Make sure your website is findable on the world wide web, i.e. search engine optimisation (SEO) and paid search marketing. Leverage the power of OTAs and metasearch. Stage 5: Sharing Don’t just count on your guests sharing their experience.

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Advanced distribution strategies for hotels

Cloudbeds

A basic strategy might involve listing your property on a few key online travel agencies (OTAs) like Airbnb and Booking.com and leaving it at that. A specific OTA may help increase occupancy , but it might not actually be profitable for your hotel. Instead of trying to outbid large OTAs, focus on finding the right balance.

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Disadvantages of Using a GDS for Hotels

Hotelogix

GDS helps hotels increase visibility and occupancy: By connecting to a global distribution system, hotels can increase their visibility as their rooms and rates are showcased to thousands of travel agents and OTAs worldwide. Read Also: Tips to increase bookings for hotels from OTAs 2.

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How to personalise your hotel website to get more bookings?

STAAH

Gone is the cookie-cutter approach to online marketing. Hotel marketing today is all about how personal you can get. Competing for guests online is now harder than ever, with so many options out there for them to choose from. A staggering number of OTA users believe they’ll find better prices or deals on an OTA.

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How To Boost Your Revenue With More Direct Bookings

eTourism

In an online market dominated by online travel agents with steep commission rates, every hotel wants to increase the number of bookings made directly through their property's website. Here are 5 ways to wrestle control away from the OTA's and maximise rev

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How To Rev Up Your Website’s Selling Power For More Direct Bookings

eTourism

The ultimate aim of every hotel's online marketing campaign should be to drive direct bookings made through their property website. True, the OTAs have a pretty strong grip on travel consumers, but that doesn't mean you should lie down and accept their do

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Hotel revenue management strategies and solutions

SiteMinder

That said, one has to ask: why are so many hotels’ margins still being eroded away by OTAs ? The growth of metasearch OTAs often outperform individual hotels in metasearch positioning and cost-per-click (CPC) performance. Some OTAs still use cached pricing.