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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. ...

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Against price parity / 3

In this series of articles I have tried to destroy the myth of the parity of the final price as a positive strategy. I called into question the arguments defending it (1st part) and I have performed a detailed analysis adding essential elements that people usually tend to not take into account (2nd part) In…

Hotel Slang: atrocities and anecdotes

Every sector and every profession creates its own jargon. In some cases this process is justified by the need of having to find a name for new concepts or concepts that do not exist yet, but in most cases, this jargon is unnecessary, dangerous and ends up creating confusion. This happens also in our market:…

Bad customer reviews on your hotel website

For a few months, two web sites have been offering the hotel own the service to integrate clients’ reviews in the official hotel website: TripAdvisor and HotelSearch. In both cases, they provide the hotel with a module that integrates into their website. The only technical operation they need to perform is only the initial integration.…

Expect the 2008 observing 2007

The demand From our privileged view point we can see what dates are the more sought after ones by thousands of visitors. Every time a visitor introduces some dates, his request is registered. After collating all these requests, we are able to know exactly how was the demand distributed for every destination throughout the year.…