Anyone notice that Google Alerts are basically broken? https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/07/30/google-alerts-are-broken/ Thank goodness for Revinate! If anyone has any info on great
A Hotelier’s review of Google Glass, one month on….. so far? Pretty good, but too utilitarian to proffer forth overly giddy testimony.
I am a hotelier, and got these through the explorer program “#IfIHadGlass” and was able to buy them. I wanted to be able to use these in design and dev / construction, so I could be on site at a hotel
Social Media is a telephone, not a billboard. Quick and dirty guide for hotels – what am I missing in here?
Easiest way to consider social media: It’s isn’t a revenue generator. You need to disrupt the booking process to create revenue – so ad spend, articles, etc. But social media is a telephone, and luxury
Facebook is not alive and well for hoteliers, and fluff articles like this are damaging to our industry
*Upshot*: Facebook is *NOT* the #1 way you engage with guests. Organic Google Search is. The fact that our industry does not understand this means a heads up for some of us…. & a whole bunch of pain for everyone else down the road.
Revenue Management tools, Yield Management, Rate Shoppers, Channel Management, Booking Engines, and some hotel tech: PRICEMATCH.FR!
As of now, the only commission free booking engine I know of is buuteeq’s, which doesn’t interface and provides a nightmare for inventory management. The only interfaced to PMS, commission free booking engine that I have ever heard of or known is Mirage Hotel Systems, who built their own that they offer with their PMS, which is also my favorite. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy it, in a heart beat. It’s astonishing more PMS don’t do this to secure more clientele.