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Hotel Marketing Post Pandemic: Being Human Before Counting Beans

2020-05-21 by Phil Butler

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Using Sweden COVID-19 booking advice as clickbait, is absolutely the wrong strategy in a post pandemic world.

Tags: Coronavirus 2019, coronavirus deaths, COVID-19 cancellations, CRM, eHotelier, Europe hotels, Forbes, HospitalityNet, hotel marketing, Juanjo Rodriguez, Lidköping Stadshotellet, Marc Rollan Serrano, RevPAR, startups, staycation, Sweden coronavirus, Sweden hotels, The Hotel Network, TopHotelNews

Expedia Profits Slow: Shares Drop

2012-02-10 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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The financials are in from Expedia. According to the reports, wile quarter 4 revenue was up by 6.7% at $787.1 million compared with the previous year, expenses took their toll virtually eliminating and growth for 2011.

Tags: Expedia, Forbes, hotel profits, hotels, online travel, OTA profits, stocks, travel companies, travel profits, travel stocks, TripAdvisor, Wall Street

Hungary Convention Tourism Booming This Year

2010-11-09 by Phil Butler

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Hungary is emerging as something of a conference tourism hub for Easter Europe. So far this year, the country’s conference attendees are up 76 percent, and growth in the segment is actually better than before the recession. Hungary tourism appears about ready to take off as maybe the first boom tourism economy out of the economic chaos.

Tags: Aggtelek National Park, Budapest, Budapest news, Budapest travel, Cafe Kor, conference travel, European Travel Commission, Forbes, Hungarian Convention Bureau, Hungary tourism, MICE, tourism, tourism industry, travel economy, travel industry news, travel news, Várhegy, visit Hungary

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Easter tourism in Crete slowed as geopolitical tensions and new EU biometric border rules led to a spike in safety concerns and travel delays.

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Heraklion begins a major €2.9 million urban landscaping project, with 11,000 new plants that will change the waterfront.

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