Yesterday, thousands of tourism businesses canceled millions of reservations. Tomorrow, every cruise line, hotel, and air carrier will wake to a new world.
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Airbnb Writing on Expedia’s, Bookings’ and Hoteliers’ Profit Walls
Airbnb, the online brokerage dreamed up by schoolmates Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia has apparently eclipsed Expedia’s booked room nights.
Hotel Marketing: Yes, Social Media Influencers are Still “In”
This report reveals for hoteliers a much better guide to social media influencers, and into the marketing strategies that work.
Greek Hoteliers Get Ready for 2020 Season Balancing Act
Greece’s 2019 tourism season warns of a disastrous 2020. Unless stakeholders think outside the box, Crete and other markets will suffer.
Winners and Losers of the Crete Hospitality Games
Whoever came up with the idiomatic expression “The devil’s in the details,” must have made a bad hotel choice or two in their lives. Since retiring from the travel public relations and marketing game, I notice an uptick in sloppy marketing efforts that are almost completely reliant on Google ads, OTAs, and the big tour operators. For hoteliers here in Greece, the lost opportunity costs of such reliance will eventually tell. It is with this eventuality in mind that I present the following.
Making a Dent in Marble Headed Greek Beurocrats
In the late Spring of 2018 the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Hellenic Ministry of Tourism and the Greek National Tourism Organisation helped organize an amazing cultural event in Heraklion. The Contemporary Minoans design event held 11 and 12 May at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum should have been made Crete branding exercise, but it wasn’t. Instead, the event stands as a stark reminder of what the term “uncommitted” means for Greece.
A Prescription for Recovering from Our Marketing Disease
Digital communications has for too long been reclassified as only a function of marketing. Public relations communicators should have been in the lead all along.
m2C Conference to take place January 29th in Prague
The “marketing to China” m2C Conference is scheduled to take place on January 29th& 30th,2019 in Prague at the Carlton Congress Hotel. The “marketing to China” conference is a new concept of knowledge sharing event between world-class professionals focused on Chinese digital marketing& e-commerce and Western companies interested in entering the Chinese market with its promotional campaigns and sales activities.
A Guide for Hotels: Simplifying Provider Selection
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.
EyeWide Digital Nominated for Greek Hospitality Awards
EyeWide Digital Marketing Agency, one of Europe’s leading hospitality marketing companies, has been nominated for several Greek Hospitality Awards for 2018.
Instagram in a Destination Discovery Context
Since forever I’ve advised my clients to make the best use of images and video, of media that will capture the imagination of potential clients. It’s 2017 and many have still not grasped the simplest concept, that a captive audience travels on the visual. As a wordsmith and someone who enjoys telling a story, using Instagram as a story place marker helps me convey the reality of a place and experience. Let me show you how to use Instagram mixed with a contextual storyline.
AccorHotels Acquires VeryChic
The anticipated AccorHotels acquisition of VeryChic is now complete according to the hotel chain. Now Accor can complete digital private sales of luxury hotel rooms and apartments, cruises, breaks, packages and more.
Airbnb Really Is the Big Bad Wolf
The hotel industry is in a nightmare of dire concerns over a beleaguered hospitality market. Airbnb and the impact the so-called “sharing economy” is on every hotelier’s mind, and understandably. The industry is for all intents and purposes, lost in a forest like Little Red Riding Hood trying to figure how much business the Big Bad Wolf […]
Key Data Integrations for Hotel Intelligence
Market segment, the new paradigm hotel revenue people seek to optimize and utilize, it can be an elusive beast. Using guest analytics and loyalty data will become more and more useful, but the key segments, and those data sets, will power the coming hotel operations shift toward predictive analytics. Here are some resources that should be […]
Snap Traveller White Paper Reveals the Secrets of Influence Marketing for Hoteliers
To celebrate the relaunch of its official site, redesigned as a network to build solid relationships between hotels, journalists and bloggers, Snap Traveller released an authoritative report on influence marketing and its role in the hospitality industry.