Take a look at foursquare. Pretty cool. It is a location based social service when users can „check –in” to any sort of establishment like, restaurant, gym or hotel and tell about it to their network. This service is becoming more and popular every day and in already reached 5 million user according to TechCrunch. As…
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Adwords is popular in travel industry and intermediaries like Expedia invest nearly $6 million monthly (source: Adage) in Google Adwords campaigns – inverting the money they get from partners. Pay Per Click sponsored results bring more and more attention of indivual hotels as well but many questions and doubts arise: Will Adwords bring more reservations?…
When starting in Facebook, the main question for hotels is deciding what type of online presence they should choose for their business: A “page”, a “profile” or a “group”? The answer is clear, A PAGE has many advantages: A page and its content will be visible for all, without having to become a Facebook friend.…
Google launched a new service that may change the way we use Google for search. Since 8th September, results in a search engine (www.google.es) are shown instantly during typing, there is no need of pressing [enter]. Google suggests 4 most popular searches that refer to written phrase showing complete results (including maps, sponsored links) for…
English Version | Version française El 6 de mayo Tripadvisor lanzó un anuncio oficial diciendo que alrededor de 12.000 hoteles de todo el mundo se había subscrito a su programa Perfil Plus, que les permite publicar la dirección de su web, su email y su número de teléfono en Tripadvisor. Cinco meses después del lanzamiento, París…
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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…
Every time a user request information regarding availability through Mirai-HotelSearch, the dates he’s introduced are recorded. These data means several millions requests and allow us to collate a very reliable demand calendar. Knowing what the historical demand has been is one of the key details that any hotelier must have to forecast for 2009 and…
