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Why Bad Translations of Hotel Documents Are Bad for Your Business

2015-01-20 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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Globalisation and advances in transport technology have brought something new to the table for all service providers: millions and millions of foreign potential customers. The hotel business is one of the most competitive markets where the battle for customers is in full swing all the time. Nowadays, hotels need to really fight for their foreign guests and the easiest way of doing that is to offer added value.

Tags: globalisation, hotel websites, hotels, multinational, translations

hotelBrain and Other Smart Ideas to Transform Greek Hospitality

2014-08-05 by Phil Butler

HotelBrain landing page

hotelBrain, Greece’s largest hotel management company, has taken aim on ramping up the branding and management of existing hotels. With Greek tourism revenues and economies at the forefront of the resurfacing economy there, the marketing company with gray matter shows promise in a land of largely unwired hotels. With some additives, this management firm could […]

Tags: Balkans hotels, Greece hotels, hotel revenue, hotel websites, Magnuson Hotels, Panos Paleologos, websites, WIHP, World Travel Awards, WTA

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

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

Great Travel Websites of 2012 – Global Hotel Alliance

2012-01-19 by Phil Butler

Drill down on GHA site

A big part of our job as a travel news source is visiting and evaluating all the tourism & hospitality stuff there is out there on the web. For you readers, as travel enthusiasts or genuine globetrotters, the evaluation process is really the same. In effect, we just “short cut” or enhance the process for you. With this in mind, Argo Travel presents the best digital expriences in travel. This weeks showcased site is the Global Hotel Alliance portal.

Tags: Conde Nast, Europe hoteliers, GHA hotels, Global Hotel Alliance, Hilton Worldwide, hotel bookings, hotel brands, hotel sites, hotel websites, Kempinski, Pan Pacific, top hotels, top sites, top websites, website design, World hotels

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