Hospitality Net

MAY 30, 2024

Even in today’s digital age, the voice channel remains powerful for hotel bookings. Our 2024 Hospitality Benchmark Report found that the voice channel maintains the highest average booking value of any channel, and outbound call campaigns can net properties an additional $1,717 per room each year on average.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

Revinate, a direct booking platform transforming the hospitality industry, announced an integration with ResDiary, an online reservation system that helps over 10,000 restaurant, bar, club, and hotel operators attract table bookings and provide efficient service.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

P3 Hotel Software, a leading innovator in hotel booking solutions, has announced that Herbert Park Hotel and Park Residence, a renowned four-star boutique in the heart of Dublin, has achieved significant boosts in revenue and direct bookings by implementing P3’s Custom Booking Engine.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Direct booking plugins are apps that will further reduce your reliance on OTAs by bringing more features and greater functionality to your existing booking engine.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Mobile bookings are now a common method of securing hotel reservations. Guests can easily research and book travel from their smartphones, making mobile bookings incredibly convenient.

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JULY 24, 2024

Bookings for the Grand Prix began as early as December 2023, significantly impacting hotel demand. This early surge in reservations has led to an unprecedented increase in hotel occupancy rates, with many premium and centrally located hotels reporting near-full bookings months in advance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Most people are calling to book especially when the online booking system says there are no available reservations, so many patrons call anyways thinking there is likely still capacity left. Access to the POS/online booking system if necessary. The most common asks are to make a reservation, ask a Frequently-Asked-Question (e.g.,

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Hospitality Net

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Hotelchamp announces the launch of their innovative Booking Engine—the fourth product in a suite of direct conversion tools designed to help hoteliers drive traffic, improve the experience on their websites and drive direct revenue.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Balancing distribution channels between Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) and direct bookings is essential for maximizing revenue and maintaining control over the guest experience. While OTAs can drive significant traffic and bookings, relying too heavily on them can lead to increased distribution costs and diminished profit margins.

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Hospitality Net

MARCH 22, 2024

A hotel booking app is an application or website that travellers use to book a stay at a hotel. Often travellers will use apps via their mobile devices to research, book, and pay for hotel accommodation. Some well known examples of hotel booking apps include Booking.com, Airbnb, or HotelTonight.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

with the introduction of an unprecedented Web3 hotel booking interface. Excitement abounds at Sleap.io takes a bold step into the travel future, weaving together advanced decentralized technology and cryptocurrency, setting a new standard in user experience.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Singapore, 07/January/2025: Hotelogix, a globally leading cloud-based hospitality technology provider, has introduced hourly booking module to help hotels maximize revenue opportunities while empowering them to offer flexible check-in and check-out times to accommodate their guests evolving itineraries.

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Hospitality Net

MAY 13, 2024

If you’re looking for avenues to amplify revenue and create a more loyal guest base, look towards fine-tuning your hotel’s direct booking strategy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is naturally having a knock-on effect on the hospitality industry. This shift in behaviour is welcome news for the hospitality sector and presents a unique opportunity for anyone considering launching their own business. Ready to make up for lost time during lockdown, bookings jumped by a staggering 300 per cent.

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Hospitality Net

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A recent study highlights how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming digital advertising, providing hotels with new opportunities to increase direct bookings and better compete with online travel agencies.

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Hospitality Net

JUNE 10, 2024

Hotels looking to increase booking conversions and customer conversations should consider using custom landing pages in combination with their social media marketing efforts.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

This book envisions the future of tourism in an economy that is largely automated. Robonomics’ is the term given to this economic system that relies on robots, artificial intelligence and automation technologies for the production of goods and delivery of services instead of human labour.

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JUNE 14, 2024

Join Daniel Foreman and Jeff Eskew from Lighthouse’s Revenue Strategy Services team as they unravel the critical role of demand drivers in shaping the booking curve. Transform your approach to booking strategies with insights that empower you to make informed, data-driven decisions.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Eight months before the start of Oasis’ sold-out tour, host markets in Europe are already seeing a significant impact on occupancy on the books, according to Forward STAR data from CoStar. CoStar is a leading provider of online real estate marketplaces, information, and analytics in the property markets.

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Bill Marler

JUNE 7, 2021

It was about this time in 1993 that Bri Kiner – who became the face of the litigation – was still months from discharge from the hospital – see Video . It was an honor to try and do justice for her – see the book Poisoned – soon to be a documentary.

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Hospitality Net

JULY 23, 2024

The majority of our rooms are booked online.” Despite the pundits’ predictions, the phones continue to ring with incoming reservations leads even now in the mid-2020s, and yes, even at branded hotels across all segments. I’m sure some readers are thinking “Well not us.

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MARCH 26, 2024

BLLA proudly presents a new book from a coveted partner, KiwiTech: Reimagining Global Hospitality: Envisaging the AI Hotel of the Future.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

ROH, the hospitality industry’s first payments and revenue management platform designed to help hotels increase profitability, today announced that Loews Miami Beach Hotel, an iconic hotel with an enviable oceanfront location, has selected ROH to streamline operations and empower its sales and finance team.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Officials of Hovr, an online quality content provider that encourages greater guest engagement, today released the first annual “2024 State of Travel and Hospitality Buyer’s Journey.”

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

To help you efficiently and effectively boost bookings and meet your advertising goals, our digital experts consistently analyze our exclusive first-party data. This data contains valuable insights including travel trends, market conditions, travel intent, and more.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Auckland hotel booking levels are as high as 84% for Coldplay’s ‘Music of the Spheres’ World Tour next month, according to data from CoStar. CoStar is a leading provider of online real estate marketplaces, information, and analytics in the property markets.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

On-the-books refers to the confirmed room revenue already secured for future dates. You may also know it as business on books or BOB.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Berlin, Germany – Hotel bookings during Oktoberfest are pouring into Munich and are set to account for 32% of the host city’s reservations this autumn.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Group bookings across the industry’s largest portfolio of economy and midscale hotels will soon take minutes—not days—thanks to Groups360 and the rapid rollout of over 5,600 Wyndham hotels to the GroupSync™ Marketplace.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

This innovative partnership aims to enhance the guest experience by promoting and streamlining real-time spa bookings through Crave in-room tablets, AppLess mobile and web solutions.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

With a focus on providing a warm welcome and a memorable stay, they deliver an exceptional guest experience from check-in to check-out – but up until recently, their direct booking journey wasn’t quite so smooth.

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MAY 13, 2024

Meeting and event booking sites have created a flood of leads, which can be overwhelming for those working in a sales role equipped and staffed for the era when leads came in by phone or website inquiry forms. Today’s hotel and event salespeople work in completely different environments than most of their leaders experienced.

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Hospitality Net

AUGUST 12, 2024

HelmsBriscoe, the global leader in hotel site selection and the placement of meetings and events, announced today that they have hit the $1-billion mark for room revenue booked so far this year. This is the earliest in the year the company has ever achieved this booking milestone.

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MAY 13, 2024

Meeting and event booking sites have created a flood of leads, which can be overwhelming for those working in a sales role equipped and staffed for the era when leads came in by phone or website inquiry forms. Today’s hotel and event salespeople work in completely different environments than most of their leaders experienced.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Paris hotel bookings for the 2024 Summer Olympics are pacing above 60%, according to CoStar’s latest Forward STAR data. CoStar is a leading provider of online real estate marketplaces, information, and analytics in the property markets.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

With Loyalty Lite, hoteliers can boost direct bookings by offering exclusive rewards and member rates to logged-in visitors, without the complexity or costs of traditional loyalty programs.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Comparing data for both months with the same period in 2023, SiteMinder also reveals that the total volume of bookings in the country has increased by 29%. This is according to SiteMinder, the name behind the only software platform that unlocks the full revenue potential of hotels.

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