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The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) is one of the industry’s leading advocates for intelligent, sustainable hotel revenue growth. The association provides hotel professionals & their partners with tools, insights, and expertise to fuel sales, inspire marketing, and optimize revenue. One of their recent articles, entitled 8 Essentials Every GM Needs to Know About Digital Marketing Today, caught our eye and that is the subject of episode 21 of the Fuel Hotel Marketing podcast.

In this week’s Hotel Marketing Podcast, we talk about the hottest new digital trends for the hotel industry and mention a few of our favorite vendors.

This is the 11th edition of Fuel’s COVID-19 Consumer Sentiment Study. As the virus continues to impact the state of travel and the hospitality industry, we want to continue to provide insights on the sentiment of consumers. This version of the survey was timed so that we could ask about both Thanksgiving travel behavior that…

This is the 10th edition of Fuel’s COVID-19 Consumer Sentiment Study. As the virus continues to impact the state of travel and the hospitality industry, we want to continue to provide insights on the sentiment of consumers.We hope that you find the information useful. The survey was sent out on September 17, 2020, and received…

The leisure travel market has seen wholesale shifts in behavior, technology, expectations, the economy, and more. As a result, hoteliers need to reinvent their marketing strategies to find and attract guests to fill rooms.  In the past hotel marketers have had a relatively easy job due to the huge demand for travel resulting in strategies…

Rising virus cases and concern of others not taking the virus seriously have likely weighed heavily on would-be travelers. So it’s no surprise in our latest consumer sentiment survey that the biggest reason people are cautious about staying at a hotel right now is: fear of guest interaction. This has been the top choice since…

Before you send that exclusive offer for the umpteenth time to your entire email database, you’re going to want to read this.Thanks to our latest consumer sentiment survey results we’ve identified the top things people want to hear from hotels right now. Staying in touch with guests on the topics they care about now will…