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The hotel industry is evolving—and fast. With third-party cookies on the decline and OTAs charging hefty commissions, accessing the untapped power of first-party data in hotel marketing becomes critical. Independent hoteliers who adopt a smarter, more sustainable strategy leveraging first-party data to personalize email and CRM marketing, see better results. This direct approach not only boosts guest loyalty but also increases profit per available room (ProPAR) and drives long-term growth.

TravelBoom’s 2025 Booking Trends Study has revealed a clear and valuable insight: U.S. travelers overwhelmingly prefer to plan and book their trips within a 1–3 month window. For hotel marketers, this predictability creates a prime opportunity to align promotions, timing, and messaging with real guest behavior.

Discover the must-have features of a high-converting hotel website in 2025 to boost direct bookings, reduce OTA reliance, and drive higher profits.

Just like your other physical assets, your property photos become outdated and need to be replaced. And, unlike that alarm clock, great photography can lead directly to a great RevPAR. Learn why hotel photography is so important and how it can make or break a website experience.

Learn why the mobile experience matters more than ever and how to optimize your hotel website to improve every step of the mobile booking journey.

This guide explains how to personalize the hotel marketing funnel across the entire guest journey: from the first website visit to post-checkout engagement.

Content repurposing for hotels can save time and maintain publishing frequency, without starting each creative initiative from scratch. If you or your marketing team could use a break from creating posts, videos, and blog content, or you’re over-extended during the busy season, consider updating your hotel’s content strategy to include repurposed materials. Taking a systematic approach…

Link-building is a critical element of SEO for hotels that improves the user experience and lends a website authority, increasing its search visibility. Internal and external links are on-page SEO tools that can earn websites backlinks—valuable off-page ranking factors that build your site’s reputation and authority. When your content creation includes internal and external link-building,…

Looking for examples of schema markup for hotels, an important element of SEO for hotels? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll demystify schema markup for hotels and travel sites, plus offer examples and clear answers for travel-industry pros seeking guidance.

Other industries use massive sales at the end of the year to push their profitability from the red to black, the reason behind the term Black Friday. Even among the massive success in other industries, far too many resorts and hotels aren’t taking part in this giant annual shopping spree. Millions of dollars in bookings are lost yearly. The sooner hoteliers can make Black Friday sales work for them, the sooner revenue projections and rate yielding for the following year can take place. 

If Google’s announcement to phase out third-party cookies for hotels and its recent change of heart have you confused, you’re in the right place. The original decision to sunset cookies on Chrome and enhance user privacy carried significant implications for the advertising industry, particularly for hoteliers who rely heavily on targeted campaigns to reach potential…

A hotelier’s guide to creating a disaster marketing and communications plan. You may have heard about the 6 P’s, “Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.” Regardless of where you apply the 6Ps, they will always lead you to success. For the purposes of this article, and from a hoteliers perspective, the 6 P’s mean your…