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Though inevitably a bit stressful, opening a new property is undoubtedly an exciting task. Increasing brand awareness and generating demand will be key in ensuring your hotel is successful moving forward. Prior to promoting your hotel before it opens, you’ll want to develop the essential elements of your brand, including your logo, color scheme and brand…

Increasing occupancy during the off-season remains one of the hotelier’s biggest challenges and can require a lot of creativity for your digital marketing strategy. Hotel marketers should utilize every platform, including email, social, paid search, and website content, to promote sales during the off-season. As challenging as it may sound, there are several tactics that…

When properly executed, email marketing for hotels opens a direct line of communication to past, present, and future guests, providing them timely, relevant information and offers – and increasing your direct bookings. But, for hospitality email marketing to reach its full potential—and provide the return on investment you’re looking for—your communications must be efficient and…

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.

It’s a known fact that Google has goals of becoming the complete funnel for many of the searches and transactions we make online. They’ve already made great strides with their airline system and they have their sights squarely aligned with the hotel/travel space. Lets dive into what Google has done this year alone in setting the stage to become the Hotel Demogorgon (cue the spooky Stranger Things music).

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.