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OTAScanner Goes Live for Hoteliers Looking to Optimize Revenue

Phil Butler

Greek digital marketing company AboutHotelier has just launched a new hotel rate shopping and intelligence platform called OTAScanner. According to the news from the agency, the tool helps hoteliers scrutinize their revenue management strategies for optimized profitability.

7 years ago

SiteMinder Aims to School Crete Hoteliers on Best Practices

Argophilia Travel News

SiteMinder, a leading cloud platform for the global hotel industry, will travel to Crete to meet with local hoteliers and advise them on best practices in global distribution.

7 years ago

Hoteliers, HTTPS Is Imperative!

Mihaela Lica Butler

Besides being an SEO ranking factor, HTTPS is an imperative for user’s peace of mind. Sites marked “not secure” in Chrome may loose vistors and ROI.

7 years ago

The New TripAdvisor Looks Like Evil Genius to Me

Phil Butler

TripAdvisor has just unveiled a new site/mobile experience launching in late 2018 that may dramatically effect the digital travel landscape.

7 years ago

MyGuestXP Provides Curative for Negative Hotel Reviews

Phil Butler

A new and innovative online platform I ran across is taking aim at mitigating negative hotel guest reviews. MyGuestXP connects any hotel Wi-Fi systems, allowing hotel management to step in before negative reviews hit websites like TripAdvisor.

7 years ago

Luxury Ukrainian Hotel Leopolis Improves Revenue with RateTiger

Argophilia Travel News

Leopolis Hotel, a landmark Ukrainian hotel has successfully optimized online distribution connectivity to improve their hotel occupancy and revenue, by leveraging RateTiger. The property, which has been using RTConnect for channel management, ARI updates, and Reservation Delivery has seen a substantial improvement in efficiency resulting in minimizing overbookings and reducing workloads.

7 years ago

Travelotopos Adds CarMates to Growing Business Network

Phil Butler

Greek technology company Travelotopos has just announced a new cooperation with CarMates, a new car rental company in Greece and Cyprus. News of the cooperation in between Travelotopos and the agency connected to RentalCars of the platform booking.com promises a new competitive dynamic for a small Cyprus startup company. But there may be more to the Travelotopos story than meets the eye. 

7 years ago

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Hotelier: Frank Reeves

Argophilia Travel News

The most confusing aspect of hotel technology these days is discerning real innovation from PR buzz. The need to market and sell products and services always skews the reality, but by taking technology (any technology) down into its basic form consumers can sift through the buzz to discover the real value. With this kind of consumer focus, we thought this great breakdown from Avvio might help sort some of the confusion. 

8 years ago

Smart Assistants Are Here To Make Your Travel Even Easier

Aleksandr Shatskih

Smart assistants are not that powerful and versatile today, but things will change fast. An infographic by Techiespad compares some of the best-known smart assistants currently available.

8 years ago

A Guide for Hotels: Simplifying Provider Selection

Phil Butler

The job of the hotel director gets ever more complicated as traditional business is forced to adapt to the ever-changing marketing and technology innovations and services. However complicated these new tools and services may be though, age old business logic still applies.

8 years ago

EyeWide Digital Marketing Wins Big At the Greek Hospitality Awards 2018

Phil Butler

EyeWide Digital Marketing participated in three categories at the 2018 Greek Hospitality Awards, and was distinguished in all at the Greek winning one Gold and two Silver awards.

8 years ago

The Reality of Hotel Website Conversion from FASTBOOKING

Phil Butler

A new report out from FASTBOOKING reveals that the average hotel website conversion rate is only 2.2 %. The same report also tells us that the top 20 % of hotels convert at a rate of 5.6 %, while the bottom fifth only convert at a pitiful 0.3%. Clearly, the spread in between leaves a gulf of disparity. For hoteliers wanting to get a grip on how to bring their properties into optimization, this FASTBOOKING paper offers help.  

8 years ago

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Apoini hosts the 17th Mesara Gastronomy Festival on July 30, celebrating Crete’s European Region of Gastronomy 2026 with local flavors and traditions.

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2026-07-08 By Mihaela Lica Butler

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