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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

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.

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…

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…

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.  

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…