Website photo gallery
The website photo gallery is the hotel’s visit card. Thus it should provide visitors with the first impression of the place where they’ll be staying...
France prohibits Rate Parity clauses by law
As expected, on July 9th, the French National Assembly voted in favor of suppressing rate parity clauses in contracts between hotels and online...
Start growing your mobile bookings today
With 335 million devices sold around the world during Q1 2015, smartphones are ubiquitous and their usage keeps growing. Travellers are no exception...
Get started with wholesale distribution
It is no news that the wholesale segment has been losing out a significant share of online business to OTAs. Nevertheless, hotels should still...
Generating direct bookings with metasearch engines
Nowadays, metasearch engines are a fast-growing advertising model in the travel industry. They can be an alternative channel for generating traffic...
Google Instant booking
The fast grow of metasearch engines has attracted Google to the sector. The search giant is now rising in importance in the hotel online...
3 tips to make the most of hotels’ partnership with OTAs
OTAs are here to stay and - like it or not - there isn't much hotels can do about it. What hotels can and should do is to strengthen their...
Catering to Russian market
Russian travelers are increasingly booking trips abroad. Seeing as high-spending guests, each hotel should the possible and the impossible to cater...
Russians hunger for travel
Russia is one of the largest outbound markets in the world. Last year, nearly 40 million Russians traveled overseas, making them the world's...
South Americans change travel patterns
Between 2009 and 2013, South American outbound travel grew by 50% in terms of the number of trips, twice as much as the overall global increase....