How hoteliers can optimize operations through design - Smart hotel design can elevate the guest experience, boost staff efficiency, and advance sustainability initiatives.

Sep 18, 2024 • Hospitality

New benchmarking scorecard for hotel marketers - Cogwheel's new Hotel Digital Marketing Benchmarking Scorecard enables hotels to measure their performance against key metrics from comparable properties.

Sep 18, 2024 • Hospitality

What are travelers looking for in a hotel? - From research to post-stay, consumers are now expecting a smooth travel experience with tailored services for their needs.

Sep 18, 2024 • Hospitality

Expedia offers curated trip recommendations - The OTA is launching a feature in its iOS app called Travel Shops where creators can share and save their travel recommendations.

Sep 17, 2024 • Hospitality

Hotels not dependent on platforms, says Booking.com - Booking.com's latest PR initiative tries to make the case that while concerns about companies becoming dependent on certain platforms may be valid, hotel distribution is certainly not.

Sep 17, 2024 • Hospitality

Travel price growth slows amid cooling inflation - According to the U.S. Travel Association's Travel Price Index, lodging prices rose 2% in August from the previous month.

Sep 17, 2024 • Hospitality

The consumer has changed, distribution has changed - Accor has discontinued the global distribution of static rates and now works exclusively with four online distributors - Expedia, Infinite, Webbeds and Hotelbeds - through direct connections.

Sep 17, 2024 • Hospitality

Price matching: OTAs are doing it, should you? - With Expedia's investment in Automatic Rate Match, price matching has become critical to staying competitive, sending a strong signal to hotels to consider a similar approach.

Sep 16, 2024 • Hospitality