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Direct Booking Strategies: How to Promote Your Booking Engine Effectively

STAAH

Flexible Cancellation Policies : In an unpredictable world, flexibility matters. c) Speed Things Up A slow site kills intent. Promote direct booking perks like free breakfast, flexible cancellation, or early check-in. d) Flexible Booking Policies Reduce booking anxiety by allowing free cancellations or easy date changes.

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How Data Analytics in the Hospitality Industry and AI Are Transforming Hotel Operations

AskSuite

Pattern recognition: Machine learning algorithms can identify guest behavior trends (such as when and how guests are most likely to book or cancel) and recommend actions automatically—adjusting rates, triggering follow-up messages, or flagging leads for the sales team.

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How Data Analytics in the Hospitality Industry and AI Are Transforming Hotel Operations

AskSuite

Pattern recognition: Machine learning algorithms can identify guest behavior trends (such as when and how guests are most likely to book or cancel) and recommend actions automatically—adjusting rates, triggering follow-up messages, or flagging leads for the sales team.

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Booking.yeehaw! riding the Booking.com ranking reshuffle rodeo

eHotelier

“Over the years, we evolved from serving only hotels to serving home-stay properties and multi-national chains, so the system has to also change to adapt to how the market is today, and it needs to behave in a fair way both for the accommodation and the traveller.” Do stricter cancellation policies impact revenue? It depends.

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157 – 2025 Hunter Hotel Investment Conference with Sarah Moss

Travel Media Group

Ryan Embree: Welcome to Suite Spot, where hoteliers check in, and we check out what’s trending in hotel marketing. And I know that’s very intentional from your team to build that in lot of meetings being done. So we try to, like you said, be super intentional about the timing there at the conference.

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Hotels under pressure to respond as OTA competition for guests lead gen explodes — SHR Group’s Hotel Industry Trends Report 2024

Hotel Speak

This is the equivalent of approximately 7.8million global reservations in 2023 when applied to the worldwide hotel market. This, in turn, is forcing hoteliers to invest more heavily in PPC to compete with the OTAs and prevent them from claiming all of the high-intent traffic, which was historically the domain of organic search.

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PMax for Travel Goals: Maximizing direct bookings with AI-powered ads

Cloudbeds

In March 2023, Google launched PMax for Travel Goals, a type of Performance Max campaign designed to target high-intent travelers at multiple touchpoints on the booking journey. If a group cancellation suddenly opens multiple rooms, PMax immediately shifts budget allocation to target last-minute planners searching for accommodations.

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