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WIHP’s DirectPack & Trivago – Direct Bookings Imminent?

2012-10-02 by Phil Butler

trivago

World Independent Hotels Promotion (WIHP) has just announced a sweet partnership with leading meta comparison site Trivago, one which could end up being a sort of strategic masterpiece. Testing their so called DirectPack ad platform with Trivago, WIHP’s test hotels achieved a 10x ROI with no sweat, according to WIHP’s Marketing experts. The implications of this news may not be readily obvious, we suggest you read on.

Tags: booking, booking engine, DirectPack, Global Hotel Exchange, hotel marketing, marketing, marketing tools, OTA's, ROI, Room Key, treovi, TripAdvisor, Trivago

Digital Marketing System buuteeq Looking Up

2012-08-19 by Phil Butler

Web, mobile, social

News from budding marketing marvel buuteeq suggests their dital marketing system (DMS) for independent hotels is gaining momentum. Powering online reservartions online, on mobile, and via social media, the startup launched back in 2011 is now engaging hoteliers across 15 countries.

Tags: booking, booking engine, buuteeq, Convert, distribution, DMS, Grafetee, hotel marketing, marketing, mobile bookings, OTA, Robert Scoble, Stay.com, Teovi, WIHP Hotels

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

Augustus Collection Teams up with The Cliff Hotel & Spa

2012-06-05 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Augustus Collection, the boutique umbrella sales and marketing specialists for hotels, hotel groups, travel technology and travel media companies, has today announced a new partnership with one of Bulgaria’s most prestigious Black Sea resorts.

Tags: Augustus Collection, Augustus-Lite, Black Sea, Black sea resort, Cliff Hotel & Spa, hotel marketing, Obzor Bay, sales and marketing, travel marketing

WIHP Hotels Solves Hotel PPC Pain

2012-05-01 by Aleksandr Shatskih

WIHP at ITB Berlin

World Independent Hotels Promotion (WIHP), in a deal with TripAdvisor, has enhanced their “Show Price” PPC ad capability there by including budgetary control for hoteliers.

Tags: ad revenue, ads, hotel ads, hotel marketing, hotels, online ads, pay per click, ppc, Show Price, travel ads, TripAdvisor

WIHP Convert Reveals Value to Guests & Hoteliers

2012-03-11 by Phil Butler

WIHP Convert - a cut above

Have you ever Google’d before going on a trip, only to run across one crappy website after another in search of a hotel? Face it, despite all the technology advances, the mobile breakthroughs enabling us like never before, hotel websites still suck. WIHP aims to change all that.

Tags: Ares Hotel, Convert, hospitality, Hotel Ares, hotel bookings, hotel marketing, hotel news, hotel websites, marketing, Martin Soler, rooms, site builder, travel websites, web design, WIHP

Fusion Hotel: Prague Hospitality Evolved

2012-02-03 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Fusion Hotel Prague

In hotel news, Prague will see the opening of the Fusion Hotel. This chic affair coming to the city center should satisfy city visitors with a contemporary taste for the edgy, even the funky. €15 million, and a play at being the most moody and raw accomodation in all the Czech Republic, hotel marketing gurus WIHP called the Fusion design something “Andy Warhol and Le Corbusier would have collaborated on.”

Tags: Czech hospitality, Czech hotels, Czech Republic, Czech tourism, Europe hotels, Florence Hotels, Fusion Hotel Prague, hotel marketing, hotel openings, Loft Hotel, Prague deals, Prague hotels, WIHP

Meritus Hotels & Resorts: A Cut Above, Still

2012-01-17 by Aleksandr Shatskih

The Meritus Touch

Meritus Hotels & Resorts has announced a campaign to celebrate, among other things, four decades of Meritus signature hospitality in Asia. These luxurious hotels are encapsulated in a new commercial campaign of extraordinary beauty and clarity.

Tags: . YouTube, Asia travel, hotel commercials, hotel marketing, Luxury Hotels, marketing, Meritus, Meritus Hotels & Resorts, Michael Sengol, Singapore hotels, Singapore tourism, Singapore travel, TV commercials

White Line Hotels – There In Black and White

2011-07-07 by Phil Butler

Town Hall London

Paris, London, New York, or even a Caribbean cruise, what’s the one thing all vacations have in common? The place a traveler stays after arrival, for one. Argo Travel News went far afield today in search of the extraordinary. After all, while we seek pattern and commonality in travel, many times – isn’t it the “unique” that is so often missing?

Tags: Aegean Suites Hotel, Croatia travel, France travel, Greece travel, Hotel Blaue Gans Salzburg, hotel marketing, hotel promotion, hotel reviews, hotels Europe, Inis Meáin, Ireland travel, Korčula, Les Pleiades, Lešić Dimitri Palace, Skiathos Island, Spain hotels, Tnooz, White Line Hotels, World hotels

TripAdvisor & Others at HotelWebsiteMarketing Conferences

2011-02-22 by Phil Butler

Hotel marketing in the digital age

HotelWebsiteMarketing.com has announced a series of conferences to take place across Europe in May and June, 2011. Also, TripAdvisor, Availpro.com, Meetingsbooker.com, reviewPro.com, TIG Global, and other leading travel companies have joined the conferences to speak and contribute. The focus will be on hotel sales, marketing, revenue and e-commerce, among the many other topics.

Tags: AvialPro, Europe travel, hotel bookings, hotel conference, hotel marketing, hotel visibility, hotels Europe, HotelWebsiteMarketing.com, Meetingsbroker.com, reviewPro.com, TIG Global, TripAdvusor

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