Tips to Boost Your Hotels Upsell Conversion With Powerful Visuals
Images can prompt strong emotions and move people to take action. Since you probably know this already, you use beautiful photos on your website to convince site visitors to make a reservation. But have you ever thought of applying this to pre-arrival upselling and cross-selling to increase your conversions? Read on to learn how you can leverage the power of representative photos to help sway guests in favour of your upsell. The Right Images for
4 WhatsApp Tips for Hotels to Improve Guest Satisfaction
WhatsApp is one of the world's most popular mobile apps, and the single most popular mobile messaging platform in 128 countries, according to Market Intelligence Insights. Given that hotel guests are rarely far from their smartphones, it is understandable that many want to communicate with hotel staff via WhatsApp. Meanwhile, the rise of hotel chatbot technology also makes this a more appealing proposition for hotel owners. In this post, you will learn more about how
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
20 Hotel Website Mistakes To Fix To Avoid a Low Conversion Rate
The hospitality industry has strong competition and the rivalry for guests is going to be even more fierce these days. Hotels compete online for guests not only with other hotels but with other players, such as OTAs and Search Engines Hotel Markets. Therefore, hotels should ensure that their website attracts customers. In this article, you’ll find the 20 most common “deadly” mistakes that kill your website’s conversion rate and you can learn how to turn
What Is Hotel Revenue Management?
For those operating in the hotel industry, revenue management is a key concept, as it enables hotel owners to predict levels of demand and optimize things like distribution and pricing in order to maximize financial results. In this article, you will learn more about hotel revenue management, why it is so valuable to hotel owners, and the necessary conditions for implementing a hotel revenue management strategy. Table of Contents: What is Hotel Revenue Management? Necessary Conditions for Hotel Revenue Management The Importance of Hotel Revenue Management What is the Difference Between Revenue Management and Yield Management Hotel Revenue Management Strategies
What Is an Occupancy Rate?
Occupancy rate is a KPI used by those within the hotel industry to assess a hotel's performance. As a metric, it is concerned with the percentage of a hotel occupied, and can be used alongside other KPIs, such as ADR (average daily rate) and RevPAR (revenue per available room), as part of a revenue management strategy. Table of Contents: What Does the Occupancy Rate Stand for? What Influences the Hotel Occupancy Rate? How to Calculate
Hotel Revenue Management System Adoption: Tips for a Smooth Transition
A revenue management system (RMS) is a fantastic tool for attracting demand from high-value guests, driving efficient operations, improving revenue performance, and increasing profitability. Of course, the best tools in the world won't do your property much good if your staff isn't bought in on their proper usage and equipped with what's needed to get the most out of them. Tips for Successful RMS Implementation and Adoption Introducing a change to an established routine will
The little-known Housekeeping Data That Can Boost Your Hotel Business
Are you measuring housekeeping data? You should. Your guests or the activities drive the housekeeping services it takes to run the property. After all, a room must be cleaned because someone slept in it. So, to understand your property's operations, how costs are created, and how to improve, you need
15 Strategies to Boost Hotel Food and Beverage Revenue
Managing hotel restaurants may be challenging. Ultimately, one might say maintaining a hotel as a whole is likely enough effort in and of itself, not even to mention trying to figure out how to ensure the hotel restaurant operates to its fullest potential. However, in the long run, it pays
Where is the Data? How Hotels are Changing Targets for Data Collection
Data is the blood life – or oxygen – for businesses, but only if one knows how to make sense of it. The sheer volume and scale of data available to hoteliers today are immense, and operators are finding new ways of turning the overwhelming deluge of information from a