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How AI is reshaping the hospitality digital marketing industry

AI is revolutionizing hotel marketing, offering new opportunities and challenging the dominance of OTAs like Google, Booking and Expedia, which are already adapting to the change....

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Book on Google (2 of 4): What it means for hotels

Google has strongly burst onto the hotel-transaction scene via its Book on Google (BoG) interface, awakening plenty of curiosity and questions about the real interest Google has with this movement. At first, it presents many similarities in regards to the twist carried out by TripAdvisor with Instant Booking. However, at the same time, it's very…

The perfect meta is yet to come

None of the main meta search sites or metasearch engines, among which we include Trivago, TripAdvisor, Google and Kayak have fully convinced hotels, especially independent ones, to “connect” their direct sales. This is somewhat paradoxical because it would be a highly positive relationship for both parties Hotels would reduce their dependence on OTAs and would…