3 Ways to Streamline Upselling Across Your Entire Hotel Chain
Once it’s in place, an automated upselling system brings countless advantages, like a more personalised guest experience, increased revenue and a more efficient workflow. Achieving these results at a single property may feel relatively straightforward. But how can you replicate them at all hotels across your chain or brand? 1. Facilitate System Adoption The easier you make it for teams at your brand’s hotels to begin using your new system, the more likely they are
How to Get Started With Google Hotel Ads
Where do you start your online search for products and services like hotels? Good chance it is Google. Google Hotel Ads has been the fastest-growing metasearch engine across all regions since its debut. In this article, you'll learn how to increase your visibility in Google Search, resulting in a growth of hotel bookings. Google Hotel Ads: How it All Started There was a time, not long ago, when the typical booking process involved, chronologically: More
Protecting Your Hotel’s Cash Flow & Improving Asset Valuation
Hotel revenue management plays a central role in protecting, forecasting, and strengthening a hotel's cash flow and overall financial position by enhancing the cash position of the asset. Additional revenue generated by a revenue management system directly flows into the amount of cash available. This higher rate of cash flow—combined with detailed forecasts that enable expense management—has a number of benefits critical to operating through this era of business disruption. Cash Is King From giving
How to Hire the Best Hotel Staff for Your Hotel?
It is impossible to run a successful hotel without hiring the right hotel staff. After all, success in the industry relies hugely on customer service, and many additional tasks and duties need to be carried out. For instance, most hotels need marketers, receptionists, HR staff, accountants, cleaners, IT support workers, chefs, waiters, concierge staff, etc. Here, you will find tips on how to hire the best hotel staff for your needs. Table of Contents: Reasons
10 Hotel Rewards Programs to Maximize Revenue & Guest Loyalty
Hotel rewards programs are among the most powerful tools available to hoteliers. A strategically leveraged program will both increase repeat bookings through incentives and provide guest data that can be used to provide further growth. The process builds up a defensible market share, pushes up RevPAR, and reduces the overall cost of acquisition. In this article, you'll learn how the programs operate and relate to ROI metrics, benchmarking, competitive strategies, and methods to prioritize guest retention. All while using consumer data and predictions to stay ahead of industry trends. Table of Contents: What Are Hotel Rewards Programs? Why Hotel Rewards
Interview with Founder and CEO Kristian Valk of Hotelchamp
In this article, we interview Kristian Valk, the founder and CEO of Hotelchamp. Through Hotelchamp, Valk has combined multiple science-based methods to improve the guest experience and drive increased direct revenue for hoteliers. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I was born and raised in the Netherlands, near Amsterdam. I'm the proud father of two kids, a boy and a girl. Sports are a real passion
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
AI in Hospitality: Power Up Your Content with Generative AI
In today's competitive hospitality industry, staying ahead is essential for hotel marketers. The advent of cutting-edge technology has introduced a game-changing solution that is revolutionizing hotel operations: Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence). This powerful technology empowers hoteliers with opportunities to streamline their operations, work more efficiently, and elevate their marketing efforts
How to Use Your (Guest) Data to Increase Revenue?
The recent years with a turbulent and unpredictable market have made hoteliers used to dramatic change. Guest booking behavior and previously established travel patterns have been replaced by new ones belonging to a hotelier's daily challenges. New travel trends and changing guest behavior are here to stay; they must act
Should Hospitality Marketing be Managed In-House or Outsourced?
Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel Should hospitality marketing be managed in-house or outsourced to an external agency? With many hospitality brands operating with smaller teams, what marketing activities could be outsourced easily? Our Marketing Expert Panel Dustin Caromano - Director of