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What is a booking engine? How to increase profitability and direct bookings

Cloudbeds

On your booking engine, showcase your different rate plans like breakfast included, early-bird, or extended-stay discounts so that travelers can choose the plan that best fits their needs. Integrated booking engines come equipped with in-depth reporting capabilities since data is centralized from your PMS and channel manager.

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Top 7 KPIs every hotelier must track

Hotelogix

Hoteliers across the world, in order to optimise their operations and enhance their profits, closely monitor their KPIs. That being said, there are a handful of KPIs for hotel general manager which help hoteliers meet the benchmarks set. The ALOS metric is calculated by dividing the occupied rooms by a number of bookings.

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111 – TMG Hospitality Trailblazers: Patrick Pahlke

Travel Media Group

And, at one point, when I was six years old, we stayed, we lived in a hotel for, for three months, and that hotel was my playground and the general manager of that hotel was like a god for me. It was in Jakarta and it was the Hilton International in 1981. Still remember very well. Any final thoughts?