You have someone to support you during conflicts, whether big or small, with mediators. You have undoubtedly argued at some point with an online agency (Booking.com, Venere, Expedia), about things like your stars, or asking them to not bet on advertisements for your label, that they don’t reduce your prices without permission, or about them…
The eternal game of cat and mouse: The intense desire to gain better conditions enlivens the imagination of each intermediary, who carries out all kinds of measures to offer something better than the rest. Hotelier beware! Avoid allowing any channel to offer your hotel better conditions or you are putting the entire system in danger.…
A well-known story for hotels: Powerful middlemen that dominate the market and put pressure on the hotel manager to lower the prices and increase the commission. Before it was the tour-operators, now it is Booking or Expedia, that have managed to continue with the same model adapting it to the new ways of doing things.…
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Do confidential deals attract new clients? Do they fill empty rooms which, otherwise, people would not use? How? Must the price be lowered? By cooperating with a Madrid hotel, Mirai has experimented, leading to interesting results. In addition to gathering facts worth analysing, in thirty days we have explored and made comparisons, discovering how exactly…
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In the first part I wrote about the inconvenience of receiving too many bookings for the hotel through Booking.com. Now, I’d like to talk about the 6 reasons why many hotel websites don’t get good results: 1: Investment in advertising Channels won’t grow without advertisement. Booking.com uses a big amount of the commissions it receives…
Selling too much? It sounds like a joke. There is never “too much”. Any reservation is welcome, and the more the merrier. I’d like to talk about an issue I have heard mentioned by several hotel managers, they’re worried about their excessive dependence on the high percentage of reservations that they get through Booking.com, while…
