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4 Simple Strategies to Boost Your Direct Bookings

STAAH

To truly drive success, your focus should extend to drawing more visitors to your booking engine through a well-crafted digital marketing strategy. Your target audience should define which channels you advertise on and which OTAs you partner with. Online Travel Agents OTAs are your billboards to acquire guests.

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13 ways to attract more direct bookings for your hotel

Cloudbeds

Direct bookings are reservations guests confirm directly with a property without using an online travel agency (OTA) or 3rd party intermediary. Direct bookings are beneficial because they connect lodging businesses directly with potential customers and increase hotel revenue through money saved from OTA commissions.

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Strategies to Manage Hotel Revenue & Increase Profit

Hotelogix

Train your staff to identify and capitalize on upselling opportunities. Increasing your Hotel's Market Share Growing your market share requires strategic marketing and distribution efforts. Strategic marketing and distribution: Optimize your presence across all distribution/sales channels.

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8 Essential Reasons to Optimize Your Hotel’s Booking Engine

STAAH

If you are a smart hotelier or any type of accommodation provider, you would not want to miss the chance of converting your website visitors from an OTA (or any other source) and bag the commission-free direct bookings. With the right analytics tools, hotels can make data-driven decisions to optimize their revenue and marketing strategies.

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11 hotel eCommerce strategies for selling more rooms online

Cloudbeds

eCommerce sites include hotel websites and booking engines , online travel agencies (OTAs), metasearch engines , and other online platforms where hotels advertise and sell rooms. Develop a search engine marketing (SEM) strategy by exploring paid advertising options on Google, Facebook, and other social media sites.

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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.

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What is Yield Management: Guide for Hotels

SiteMinder

The use of yield management should factor in the costs of channels – from GDSs, OTAs, wholesalers, meta search sites and property websites to direct calls – and therefore how to better yield your inventory by channel, customer and more. What are the elements of hotel yield management?