Large 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…
Tomorrow February 15th, the Barcelona Convention Bureau will release rooms for the Mobile World Congress. You will sell them at a great price, we have no doubts about it. However, will you sell them with the minimum distribution cost? We provide a few ideas According to Booking.com, today Feb-14th Barcelona is almost fully booked (93%)…
After the recent launch of instant booking (read our post “What is instant booking and how does it work?” for a complete analysis), TripAdvisor has caused a stir and now wants to compete face to face with the main OTAs. Therefore, has TripAdvisor become an OTA? Despite them saying that they are not an OTA…
Once we have analysed instant booking TripAdvisor’s new product (what it is and in detail) comes the big question: should I participate with my direct sale? On one hand, the first reaction would be to resist. It does not seem ideal to advance towards a scenario in which the direct sale, whose main objective should be…
Once we have analysed what instant booking is and how it compares to Business Listings and TripConnect CPC, we move on to analysing the many questions that this new product comes with. Will it be available in all markets? For now, instant booking is available only for users in the United States, Canada and United…
TripAdvisor continues to grow and, whether we like it or not, is going to become an important figure in the hotel industry. It was created as a hotel review site and it has become the number one site in that field. It grew by adding price comparison, competing with Trivago and Kayak. Now, it has…
