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Resilient Business Ecosystems: The Only Vaccine for Travel & Hospitality

2020-08-24 by Phil Butler

COVID alternative

The only way to weather the COVID-19 storm is to be lean, efficient, and flexible in the short and long term.

Tags: COVID-19, Deloitte, Doug Satzman, Greece COVID, Greek hotels, hotel business, hotels, investing, lean business, Liberty International Airport, Magnuson Hotels, pandemic economics, RevitUP, RevPAR, ROAS, Sevi Boutique Hotel, Tom Magnuson, XpresCheck, XpresSpa Group

STR Releases Europe Hotel Performance for July 2020

2020-08-21 by Argophilia Travel News

Fodele Beach Hotel

A report from STR reveals Europe’s hotel industry’s improved but low performance, according to July 2020 data.

Tags: ADR, Europe summer, hotel profits, hotels, RevPAR, STR, Summer 2020, summer numbers, UK hotels

Hotel Marketing Post Pandemic: Being Human Before Counting Beans

2020-05-21 by Phil Butler

Post Pandemic Marketing

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

A Thin Light Shines On Greek Hotels From Beyond the Pandemic Tunnel

2020-05-04 by Phil Butler

Minas Liapakis

The pandemic is destroying the businesses of countless Greeks. There are some bright points, however, for those capable of taking advantage.

Tags: EyeWide, EyeWide Digital Marketing, EyeWide Digital Marketing Agency, Greece hospitality, Greece tourism, Greek hotels, Harry Theoharis, hotels marketing, Minas Liapakis, RevPAR, tourism, tourism minister

Why “NOT” to Believe Dreamy COVID-19 Recovery Predictions

2020-03-26 by Phil Butler

Tacoma COVID-19

The COVID-19 situation where travel and hospitality are concern, is largely understated by most experts who project a mid-term leveling out.

Tags: Asia Pacific, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Double Check, Europe hotels, Greece hotels, hotel revenue, Le Bijou, London, london hotels, Madeleine Hübner, McKinsey & Company, RevPAR, STR, US hotels, World hotels, WTTC

Greece Hospitality Conundrum: Is Airbnb the Real Enemy of Hoteliers?

2019-11-26 by Phil Butler

Fort Ft Lauderdale Sea Ranch Motel

Alexandros Vassilikos, who’s President of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, is calling a solid framework to regulate the activities of the short-term rental market in Greece. On the opening day of the Xenia 2019 exhibition, one of Greece’s most successful hoteliers presented the forum and the Greece Hospitality with a unique potential. Here’s my take. aaa Speaking […]

Tags: AirBnb, AIROTEL, Alexandros Vassilikos, Dr. Cindy Y. Heo, Greek hotels, Greek Travel Pages, GTP, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, hotels, Maria Theofanopoulou, RevPAR, sustainable hotels, Xenia 2019

The Reality of Hotel Website Conversion from FASTBOOKING

2018-01-19 by Phil Butler

A new report out from FASTBOOKING reveals that the average hotel website conversion rate is only 2.2 %. The same report also tells us that the top 20 % of hotels convert at a rate of 5.6 %, while the bottom fifth only convert at a pitiful 0.3%. Clearly, the spread in between leaves a gulf of disparity. For hoteliers wanting to get a grip on how to bring their properties into optimization, this FASTBOOKING paper offers help.  

Tags: Bookings, FastBooking, hotel bookings, hotel conversion, hotel conversion rates, hotel data, hotel marketing, hotel website, Jean-Louis Boss, RevPAR, website bookings, website conversions

UK Hotels Outlook Stagnant: Eastern Europe Growing

2016-02-24 by Aleksandr Shatskih

According to data from Statista, UK hotel occupancy across 2,393 hotels, guesthouses and bed and breakfast properties show the industry as “flat” according to the surveys. Within the European market, only Eastern and Southern Europe show significant growth for revenue.

Tags: Europe hotels, Hotel occupancy, hotel revenue, RevPAR, STR Global, UK hotels, UNWTO

Expedia Accelerator: Step Right Up, You Hotelier Fools

2016-02-23 by Phil Butler

Expedia Accelerate

Yesterday I wrote a short post on LinkedIn “Pulse” with my view on Expedia’s new “Accelerator” marketplace. The experiment where hoteliers get to bid for the hotels’ visibility on the OTA, it resembles a carnival act for me. At least one comment on my LinkedIn, suggesting I was a mean spirited ranter because of my […]

Tags: Expedia, hotel revenue, hotels, IHG, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Pulse, OTA's, RevPAR, World hotels

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Beats Q1 Expecations

2013-04-30 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Good news in the hospitality sector, at least for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., first quarter earnings exceeded Wall Street expectations. According to RevPAR, performance of Starwood same-store hotels grew worldwide by some 3.4 percent.

Tags: hotel profits, hotels, RevPAR, Starwood Hotels, Wall Street, World hotels




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