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Hotel Internet Marketing
Many Meeting Planners Like To Do It At Home
It seems that the age-old practice
of creating familiarization trips, to check-out hotels and facilities, is
another victim of the economy. This economy has caused many planners to
research travel information via the Web to help ease their shrinking travel
budgets. Apparently meeting planners rely on guest comments, too.
Hoteliers and OTA's, Partners or Opponents? The firestorm, which began when the negotiations between Choice Hotels and Expedia broke down on October 15th, stirred-up a lot of deep-seated feelings about OTA's and Expedia in particular.
Growing Tension Between Hoteliers & OTA's I just got through reading an article titled "Growing Tension Between Hoteliers and OTA's". There are so many of things in this article with which I don't agree, I don't know where to begin.
What's Your Hotel's Online Market Share? Online, your competition set amounts to those hotels which appear, with yours, on search results. At this point, your hotel's title and description tags are of critical importance, but more about this later. I'm sure you can name all the hotels in your local market, but do you know which hotels compete with your hotel online?
3 Hotel Internet Marketing Tactics From Outside The Box
There have been a torrent of articles and webinars extolling the virtues
of social media for hotels. Social media is certainly applicable for
hotel franchise brand-building, but this writer is still unconvinced
about the marketing value of social media for individual hotels.
Mastering the Art of Online Sales Through Hotel Website Content The content on your proprietary website performs two separate, and extremely important, functions. The first is to attract visitors to your site through organic search; second, to generate interest and drive visitors to your site's booking page.
Weighing-in on Hotel's Use of TripAdvisor Tools
Recently, I read an
article discouraging hoteliers from posting a website link to TripAdvisor or
posting TripAdvisor reviews via the TripAdvisor widget on their website. In
my opinion, making
broad
statements like this, is absolutely absurd and demonstrates a lack of
understanding how and why people choose a hotel online.
Let's be Honest, Does Your Hotel's Website Suck? There's only one way to know whether or not your website is doing its job and, that is, to check the number of reservations it's generating. If you have an independent hotel, this is an easy task; your booking engine's analytics should tell you.
Website Content Management...Boon or Boondoggle? Imagine having the ability to change and update the content of your hotel's website on your own; change text, add information, that would be great. At the onset, it sounds terrific. No more waiting for your site developer to make the changes and additions you requested.
It's Time to Seek Advice From a Hotel Internet Specialist When... To win in 2009, you will need your hotel's website to contribute to your reservations production. So, here is a countdown of the Top Ten Tip-Offs that your hotel website needs attention. It's time to seek advice from a hotel Internet Specialist, when:
Nine Reasons Why Some Hotels Are Getting More Bookings From The Internet Finally, most hoteliers would agree that the only way to measure the effectiveness a hotel website is to track the number of reservations being generated from it.
Hotel Website Marketing - What You Should Do Now, Not later
Times are tough and, as a
result, budgets tend to shrink. In times like this, more and more hoteliers
are looking to the Internet and other electronic sales channels to generate
new revenue. There is actually no other sales channel that has a greater
potential return on a relatively modest investment; it offers the biggest
bang for your buck.
Organic Search On The Internet Can Be Elusive For Hotels
Today, more
than ever before, hotels need the exposure and marketing power that only the
Internet can provide from a cost-effectiveness standpoint. Your website may
look great, but can Internet searchers find it through generic search?
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