DMA impact on hotels: 0.8% loss of direct reservations
The DMA reduces EU direct hotel bookings by 0.8%, with Hotel Ads decreasing its relative share by -33%, profiting OTAs and increasing your distribution costs. ...
Find out moreThe DMA reduces EU direct hotel bookings by 0.8%, with Hotel Ads decreasing its relative share by -33%, profiting OTAs and increasing your distribution costs. ...
Find out moreLarge Internet companies are evolving with a common objective: occupying the whole life cycle of the client, focusing especially on the most interesting and juiciest part from a money point of view, the booking or the hotel transaction. Historically, the life cycle phases have been occupied by the giants of the industry with well-defined limits.…
Recently, TripAdvisor notified users of a change in its security settings that does not affect the Business Listings traffic but that may interrupt its tracking in Google Analytics. All of the websites that do not use the HTTPS protocol shall stop registering referral traffic on TripAdvisor through Google Analytics. At Mirai, we have detected that…
The potential sales sources of Booking.com may be classified in the following way: Not all of these booking origins are new sales for your hotel. Some of them just compete with other channels (including your own website) for the same clients (existing sale), thus unnecessarily increasing your distribution costs. On this post, we will focus on…
With the celebration of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, we have analysed the mobile impact on websites of hotels in Barcelona and Madrid. Is mobile more used to visit the hotel website or to book? Which is growing faster? What country is more mobile? How come? Barcelona hotels register more mobile clients…
There are all kinds of cases: hotels that don’t offer them, hotels that let you choose, others that only have them on certain dates… Is there a criteria to go on? Any specific guide of what to do? What does it depend on? Here are a few ideas that may help you. The option to…