Our independent hotels are a really great outlier, as the majority of our hotels do not use OTA, and are 100% direct. What *are* & *should be* direct bookings get siphoned into different ecosystems, whether a legit bait and switch, or just being swallowed by the black hole of Google. Our metasearch has done wonders,…
The intersection of travel and virtual reality.
I am incredibly curious about Virtual Reality and how it will relate to, and impact, our industry of travel. Here’s where I am at, right now, and you can see why I am so interested! So up here at the top, the TL;DR is what real-world travel “games” or software have you seen in VR? Google Earth…
REVENUE MANAGERS: Please consider this anti-competitive behavior, and explain how independent hotels can battle it.
Remember… I’m not a blogger, a marketer, or a web guy. I am a hotel ops guy, and I’m just trying to produce content at my leisure, as best I can. So with that out of the way, there’s 2 things I am worried and confused about, and I hate being alone on an island,…
Experience trumps product. Does your hotel’s digital presence reflect this?
https://www.travelweekly.com/Arnie-Weissmann/Passages-and-passion It’s encouraging that people are realizing products, stuff, consumerism is out…. and experience is in. Please revisit this post
A quick missive on the effectiveness of Hotel Tonight for independent boutique hotels.
Hotel Tonight is a bit like that https://hackertable.com that I use…. I might not be able to eat at the precise restaurant I want, at the precise time, at the last minute…. but I can find of the best