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A potential recession is looming and hoteliers need to prepare. These tips will help you recession proof your hotel marketing and survive with smaller budgets and higher costs

The best OTA strategy for hotels doesn’t include OTAs. Well, sort of.In many cases, leveraging OTAs to be a complimentary piece of your hotel’s overall goals is necessary.However, if you’re looking to build more direct bookings and revenue, and avoid paying costly commission fees to Kayak, Trivago, Expedia, and countless other OTAs, you’re in the…

Hotel marketing is an incredibly complex web of tools, programs, sites, and third-party systems.  In order for your marketing to work at it’s potential all systems must be functioning, and when you built them… they did.  Unfortunately over time things break, stop working, change or are simply just forgotten.  One of the oft-forgotten aspects of a great hotel marketing effort is going back and checking what you “think” is working great.  When you do this, you’ll more than likely find that what you thought was a fine-tuned marketing machine is in dire need of some maintenance.

In a time when travel is bouncing back heavily post-pandemic, it is imperative that hotel marketers compete at a championship level. New trends continue to swirl through the towns of hospitality and tourism like a tornado and hotelier storm chasers are left trying to keep up. But, before diving into the deep end of the…

Facebook ad campaigns can be highly effective for hotels – but your efforts are useless if you are not targeting the right audience. Learn top tactics for reaching the right travelers at the right time.

TravelBoom just concluded an extensive survey to frequent travelers to uncover insights into how the rising cost of travel will impact 2022 and beyond. Over 2,000 travelers completed the survey and the data will absolutely impact how hotels adapt to inflation and rising costs. Rising gas prices, and travel costs in general, are a major…

Local SEO for hotels is a crucial component of online success and determines whether someone searching for hotels in your area sees your property on the search engine results page (SERP). This stage in the hotel booking process is incredibly important for hotels, as prospective customers are typically looking for the best option that matches…

In this article we’re going to cover what remarketing and retargeting are, how they work, and why hotels and resorts should be using these tactics to increase their occupancy.

With the announcement of the Topics API, Google is steadfast in preparing web users, websites, and advertisers (that includes you, fellow hotel marketer) for a 3rd-party cookie-less world. In this article, we’ll explain the whats, whys, and hows of the Topics API and its effects on hotel marketers and hotel PPC campaigns. What do hotels…

You may have read plenty about how Apple’s iOS 14.5 update would affect Facebook advertisers across all sectors, including travel and hotels. Specifically, how the update would impact user tracking for website remarketing audiences. But unless you haven’t been running Facebook ads lately or experimenting for yourself, you may not have an idea how the…

One benefit to being an independent hotel is the freedom to choose – in this case, the freedom to choose a content management system for your hotel website. With more than a handful of content management systems to pick from, making the right choice can be intimidating. We’ve highlighted what to consider when choosing a…

There are three main reasons why hotels can have a high unsubscribe rate on their email marketing, and it all comes down to just one main point.  Your emails are not relevant to their needs or travel habits.