Optimizing rates and availability – the strategy for 2019/20
Already today, distribution strategies based on maximizing the number of sales channels require additional effort and specialized tools. In the times of extremely competitive market environment, increasingly digitalised reality, growing role of OTAs and...
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YieldPlanet at the Bookassist conference next to TripAdvisor and Google
Direct Booking Congress is an event organised by Bookassist during which world-class experts and hospitality market leaders share their experience through presentations and workshops. The event will gather specialists of the HoReCa sector.When: 19 November...
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Technology for small and medium-sized facilities
Not long ago, advanced hotel system infrastructure was a domain of big hotel chains. Today, in the era of digital revolution, ignoring technologies, services and solutions provided by software producers can prove to be an enormous obstacle on your way to development....
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How to increase your revenue using YieldPlanet’s Channel Manager?
YieldPlanet is a Channel Manager founded on the Yield philosophy. As the name implies, its function is yielding, or, in other words, ensuring maximum profitability of your rates and hotel distribution in an optimised and effective manner.YieldPlanet’s...
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How to map an AirBnb in YP’s Channel Manager?
Airbnb is one of the key platform that allow you to reach out to your potential customers from Poland, as well as the most remote locations of the world. Airbnb is a hugely popular platform and, for many travelers, the first choice in the search for a...
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Automating your facility with PMS and Channel Manager
KajWare, PMS KWHotelThe perfect duet of the hospitality industryAutomation is a key term for the hoteliers of the 21st century. Only slightly over a decade ago relying on a notebook and your own memory was a standard procedure in property management. Yet...
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Alternative Hotel and Vacation Rental Listing Websites
You're probably familiar with the top listing sites for your region. But do you know these alternative sites? Check these categories to see if they can make your distribution more effective.1. Specialists in set MarketsLooking for channels popular in North...
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New Channel Manager features: MaxLOS and CTD
Paweł Rytel MaxLOS or maximum length of a stay defines a maximum number of days a guest can stay at a hotel, while CTD or Closed to Departure blocks a guest from checking out a property at certain dates.Both MaxLOS and CTD can be already found in channel...
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Malvern Group ceases trading
Malvern Group incorporating Superbreak Mini Holidays Limited and Late Rooms Limited has filed a Notice of Intention to Appoint an Administrator on 1st August 2019 and have ceased trading with immediate effect. Both firms had about 53,000 customers between...
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Hotel trends: what not to miss in 2019/2020
Bookassist For the hotel industry autumn is a time to reflect on marketing plans for the coming year. It is a particularly good time to analyse trends. Looking forward, we should not forget that there is little sense in trying out novelties before we have...
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How does overbooking influence hotel revenue?
Booking cancellations and no-shows are common phenomena throughout the hospitality industry. While they disrupt normal functioning of a hotel, they also afford an excellent opportunity to generate additional income. Unfortunately, using this opportunity to...
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How to forecast apartment occupancy and prices
Much like managing a hotel, managing apartments consists mainly in anticipating and managing the future. Naturally, this is no easy task as financial results are influenced by numerous factors. Despite the obvious difficulties connected with development of...
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Google Hotels – a new tool for hotel marketing
There are many different models of working with Google for hoteliers to promote their property. You can choose the most common way of promotion – the Google Ads. You pay and a link to your hotel’s website appears directly in the sponsored links in the...
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New connection: Traveliko.com
YieldPlanet has a new connection to the Channel Manager with an OTA: Traveliko.com.Traveliko.com offers the cheapest distribution channel for hotels to sell their room online and compete with other OTAs. The OTA channel aims at rebalancing the online...
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How to increase revenue from apartment rental
Both hotels and apartments base their distribution strategies on multiple mutually complementary sales channels, as this is the only way to achieve success on this extremely competitive market. However, management of a large number of channels may yield...
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Google Assistant revolutionises the hotel industry
Modern technology has established itself in hotels for good and it seems like this is unlikely to change in the near future. Quite the contrary: the expectations of guests and their shopping habits change quickly, forcing hotels to continually modify their...
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Consortia as a source of corporate bookings
GDS distribution is the entry point to worldwide corporate travelers. The GDS feed most consortia, providing a major source of business for hotels that capture strong corporate demand. How to join TMC & Consortia hotel programs to make the most of your...
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The best apartment rental websites
Which channels to use to efficiently boost profits on renting apartments ?A successful sales strategy involves the use of a variety of diverse and mutually complementary channels. Using of only one or two distribution channels in an extremely competitive...
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Why do you need to be on GDS now
GDS business can be a significant source of incremental bookings. Who...
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Build a distribution strategy for apartments
Increasingly often, short-term rentals are the first choice over traditional accommodations, primarily among individual customers, but also among business customers. However, continuously growing interest and, as a result, competition, have made property...
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How to maximize your peak season earnings
With the high demand that peak season brings to your distribution channels, together with Booking.com we are sharing some tips to show you how your business can benefit. This is how you can attract more guests to your property. 1. Improve your visibility...
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Consortia – a quick guide for corporate reservations seekers
As explained in the ‘Why do you need to be on a GDS now? A guide to the GDS market for hoteliers’ GDS white paper elaborated by YieldPlanet, diversification of distribution channels is one of the key factors that make your property perform better....
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YieldPlanet at the Polish–African Business Achievement Investment Forum and Awards
YieldPlanet will be participating in the Polish–African Business Achievement Investment Forum and Awards event.This prestigious event will be held on the 11th of June 2019 in Warsaw. Wojciech Borowy, Board Member and founder of YieldPlanet S.A., will be...
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New connection: Apaleo PMS
YieldPlanet has established a new connection with Apaleo. The two-way integration enables hoteliers to connect YieldPlanet’s Channel Manager directly from Apaleo’s store. Apaleo is an easy-to-use property management system that connects to all your...
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New connection: Smartbox Group
YieldPlanet has established a new connection with Smartbox Group - the pioneer European and worldwide leader in the experience gift market. YieldPlanet’s clients can connect to Smartbox and benefit from this platform. The connection allows YieldPlanet...
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Rate leakage: Hotelbeds wants to support hoteliers and property owners to prevent Rate Leakage
Redistributing of inventories and reselling offers from one channel on another is not a new thing but with the more widespread use the booking-basic rate on Booking.com in European hotels since December 2018, the rate leakage topic has been fueled again.A...
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Case study: Aurora Luxury Hotel & Spa, Greece
The first hotel to take full advantage of the interface between YieldPlanet’s Channel Manager and OperaAurora Luxury Hotel & Spa is an independent vacational, four-star property, located in the island of Santorini, in Greece, and the perfect place to...
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Booking.com AV Resell Feature – new way booking.com handles cancellations
Booking.com has started testing the AV Resell Feature. This can be a great chance for properties which depend heavily on bookings from OTAs. Booking.com informed us that they started testing the AV Resell Feature. With this feature, booking.com is...
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YieldPlanet now has 500 connected partners!
We are happy to announce that over half thousand partners have trusted us and are officially connected with us.Who are our connections?• The 506 partners belong to one of 7 categories: OTA, wholesalers, PMS, RMS, CRS, GDS and booking engines.• The most...
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YieldPlanet listed one of Booking.com’s most trusted partners globally
We are excited to inform that YieldPlanet has been listed among Booking.com’s most prestigious partners in the Connectivity Partner Programme for another consecutive year.YieldPlanet has been included among 50 leading partners of Booking.com globally to...
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