Is Your Hotel Ready To Navigate Economic Uncertainty?
From COVID-19 To Economic Uncertainty. Your Hotel Can Thrive In The Face of Adversity
Diversify Your Traffic Sources
Another aspect that hoteliers should not overlook is attempting to promote themselves directly on channels where OTAs have a presence. This not only includes placing ads on travel sites such as TripAdvisor, but also includes focusing on increasing visibility on Google, Bing and META search sites like Google and Kayak. To ensure optimal performance when competing against OTAs on these channels, hoteliers should be selective on the types of inventory that they push out to OTAs, and instead should leverage more popular items for their own marketing campaigns in order to entice guests into booking directly. Following such a strategy can maximize a hotel’s ability to capture bookings independently of OTAs by outbidding them or by optimizing ads to appear above OTA-sponsored content.
Actionable Tools To Succeed, Including:
- Using added value to help guests make decisions
- How you can diversify your traffic sources
- Using your local market to fill soft periods
- Leverage soft periods to make property improvements
- Why you should think twice before cutting your marketing