Smart Hotel Room; What Are the Benefits for Hotel Owners and Guests
Smart room technology is a key trend for hotel owners to be aware of, and the desire to create a smart hotel is growing for a number of reasons. In this article, you will learn more about a smart room, why smart hotel technology is so important, and how smart hotel rooms can benefit hotel owners and guests alike. Table of Contents: What is a Smart Hotel Room? Why is Smart Room Technology Becoming Important?
Smart Hotel: What Are the Benefits for Hotel Owners and Guests?
One of the most important technological trends within the hotel industry today is the rise of smart hotel technology. This technology can benefit both hotel owners and guests alike, potentially improving financial results as well as the customer experience itself. In this article, you will learn more about a smart hotel, why technology is becoming so important, and the various plus points. Table of Contents: What Is a Smart Hotel? Why Every Hotel Should Become
Let’s Get Digital: Creating a Smart Guest Journey for Your Hotel
Coronavirus threw a lot of well-established routines and best practices overboard without warning. Within only a few months, almost every aspect of hotel operations had to be re-examined and updated in ways nobody would have predicted at the start of 2020. To help you navigate this transition, this article sums up actionable tips on how you can adapt your guest journey to the new reality. New Automation Standards Due to The Corona Pandemic New, strict
Why Simplifying Group Bookings Is the Secret to Business Hotel Success
Group bookings are vital for business hotels, but outdated, fragmented systems complicate the process. Managing accommodation, meeting spaces, and event services across multiple platforms often results in errors, wasted time, and client dissatisfaction. By adopting integrated technology, hotels can simplify operations, minimize mistakes, and improve profitability, ensuring they meet growing demand and operate more efficiently. Simplifying Group Bookings for Boosting Hotel Efficiency and Revenue Managing group bookings is often a double-edged sword for business hotels.
What Tech Trends Are Impacting Revenue and Guest Experiences In 2023?
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What Tech Trends Are Impacting Revenue and Guest Experiences In 2023? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Chaya Kowal - Cluster Director Of Revenue Management, Potato Head Family Diego Fernández Pérez De Ponga - Director of Revenue Management, Palladium Hotel Group Pablo Torres - Director, TEDUKA & Hospitality Consultant, Torres Hospitality Consulting Mariska van Heemskerk - Owner, Revenue Management Works Fabian Bartnick
How Targeting Hotel Audiences Ensures a Personalized Experience for Each Guest
The key to meeting the expectations of today's guests, with or without technology, is a targeted approach. No one has the time or headspace to process and filter out irrelevant information in the information overload era. After engaging in a great deal of comparisons, analysis and filtering in their search for accommodation, asking your guests to put in this work is becoming more and more unthinkable in hospitality. Audience Segmentation This is one of the
Top Tactics to Drive Direct Bookings at Your Hotel
The last few years have seen major shifts within the hospitality industry. Along with the uneven demand and staffing challenges caused by the pandemic, there was one significant upside – a shift in confidence that saw guests book directly through the hotel vs. relying on OTA websites to find the best deal. As the industry continues to recover, some of those booking perks disappeared, and there’s been another shift as many guests once again feel
Pricing Personalization & the Future of Hospitality
Pricing personalization allows hotels to move towards total profit optimization by combining the power of the guest profiles in your CRM with revenue management forecasting to deliver the right price to the right guest at the right time during the guest journey. Guests Have Increased Expectations for Personalization Personalization is
Pricing Your Rooms in 2022 – Getting The Best Results in Times of Uncertainty
Cast your minds back to midnight on new years eve. You probably weren’t thinking about your room pricing. But if you had been, would you have felt confident about how demand will play out this year? How much would you bet on being right? If you are in charge of
Which Matters Most for Winning Guests – Price or Loyalty?
Regardless of who you are, competition in the hospitality industry is increasingly fierce, and winning new customers is a major challenge even for experienced hoteliers. So, what makes the most significant difference in getting guests to stay at your hotel versus the one down the street? Is it price? Is
Practical Tips to Increase Hotel Sales When Demand is Low
In a low-demand context, hotels must focus on maximizing their conversion rate. A proactive sales strategy augmented by Artificial Intelligence (AI) proves instrumental in navigating these difficult times. Practical Ideas to Increase Direct Conversion Rates In these low-demand times, every reservation counts. Just making hotel direct booking easy from a
Changes in Post-Covid Breakdown of Direct Vs OTA Bookings for Hotels
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: When reviewing the number of direct website bookings Vs OTA bookings, have you seen any difference in this breakdown post-Covid? Has there been a shift in B2B and B2C? (Question by Ricardo Sereno) Our Revenue
Boost Hotel Revenue by Understanding Post-Covid Guest Booking Behavior
The most challenging period the global hospitality industry has faced to date is finally over in most regions. Lockdowns and travel restrictions are largely a thing of the past, and people are comfortable traveling again. But guest booking behavior has shifted. In this article, you’ll learn about 4 data-driven insights