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Hotelising Cranks Up Digital Marketing Services Offer

2021-07-31 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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Hotelising has announced having added digital marketing services to its offerings for tourism and hospitality companies.

Tags: digital marketing, Hospitality marketing, hospitality news, hospitality tech, hotel marketing, Hotelising, Katerina Petropoulo, Katerina Petropoulou, Trastelis Group

Hotels’ Meeting Rooms as Xmas Corporate Headquarters 2020

2020-11-21 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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The Hospitality industry is counting down the days until the end of lockdown 2.0, but this Christmas Season will be completely different. Here’s a look at some innovative ideas.

Tags: Christmas 2020, hospitality industry, Hospitality marketing, hotel marketing, hotel tech, meetings, MICE, Royal Lancaster London, Tomasz Janczak, travel

OTA Insight Re-shapes Real-time Market Intelligence with Market Insight

2020-06-29 by Argophilia Travel News

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OTA Insight announces the launch of Market Insight, an industry-first predictive market intelligence solution.

Tags: hospitality, Hospitality marketing, hotel market, Market Insight, Market intelligence, online marketing, online travel, OTA Insight, OTAs

Wakeup Call: Print Media Remains Top Tourist Preference

2019-06-10 by Argophilia Travel News

tourists prefer print

According to a survey conducted by Bentley’s Center for Marketing Technology (CMT), print media still rules hospitality marketing.

Tags: Bentley’s Center for Marketing Technology, CMT, digital media, Hospitality marketing, hospitality PR, media, media outreach, print media, Travel marketng, travel PR, Visitor International

How to Handle Fake Posts on Travel Review Sites

2013-02-21 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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Hospitality firms with online presence can introduce and sell their products not only to actual customers directly, but also to the networks reached by customer feedback. More people reading customer reviews means a wider market reach, as any people use travel review websites in planning trips and sharing travel experiences. It’s been shown that three quarters of online travelers use three or more travel review websites before final booking. But there’s a problem…

Tags: fake reviews, Hospitality marketing, hospitality rating, hospitality SEO, hotel reviews

Three Great Hotels That Could Use A Website

2012-08-01 by Phil Butler

Albatroz Seafront Hotel

One of the most crucial aspects of any online business is the landing page of the website. Nowhere is this more crucial than for any hospitality company, and in particular hoteliers. We have typed ourselves to bloody fingers, talked ourselves blue in the face, but still even wonderfully lavish hotels offer up hamburger to their prime rib consuming visitors.

Tags: Aenaon Villas, Albatroz Bayside Villa, Albatroz Seafront Hotel, AWWWARDS, Hospitality marketing, hotel marketing, hotel websites, marketing, Simon Foster, Tiergarten, Ulf Acksel, Volkspark Friedrichshain, web design

Library Hotel Collection Moves With WIHP

2012-06-28 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Wine and cheese at Casablanca Times Square

Selected to reinvent all Library Hotel Collection’s websites, hotel marketing agency WHIP expands their already considerable brace of interdependent hotel clients with four extraordinary boutiques in New York, and more to come from Budapest to Toronto in the coming weeks. The hospitality sensation of ITB Berlin, WIHP Convert website design renders a result ending the way Every hotel website should look like, at least according to Robin Wauters at The Next Web.

Tags: booking portal, Convert, hospitality, Hospitality marketing, hotel booking, Hotel rooms, hotel tech, hotel websites, hotel websites platform, Independent hotels, Library Hotel Collection, marketing, New York accommodations, New York bookings, new york city, New York rooms, New York stays, online booking, OTA's, Robin Wauters, The Next Web, WHIP, WIHP Hotels, World hotels

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