Beyond the monstrous shift in business culture, as well as our hospitality industry moving from hospitality into a wall street money business (forcing a clamp down on labor, and the amount paid to find
Google + Plus = Importance. How Hoteliers might understand what Google Plus is – in two pictures.
You should add these to your hotel website. You should claim your hotel Google Plus Business Listing, You should create and or merge your page with that listing. You should add all the snippets you can,
A bit of a hospitality firehose: news & articles of the last few weeks Oct 2013
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
Open Letter to Tripadvisor & Market Metrix re: Review Direct
If Tripadvisor’s popularity index can be equated to revenue, then paying to increase your popularity seems very, *VERY* much a grey area.
What if independent hotels put a splash page like this on their website? = Book directly with a hotel, and not with Expedia. Here’s why.
OTA’s were a stopgap solution when the non-tech hotel industry was being left behind during the early days of online distribution. Now, distribution has changed, and continues to change in rapid and meaningful ways. OTA’s aren’t as necessary anymore.