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How to increase holiday bookings

SiteMinder

TripAdvisor, one of the world’s largest travel sites with more than 225 million reviews, has introduced a unique function called TripConnect Cost-Per-Click giving hotels the opportunity to cost effectively generate bookings. Travellers can now quickly compare pricing and availability directly within TripAdvisor.

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13 ways to attract more direct bookings for your hotel

Cloudbeds

Direct bookings are reservations guests confirm directly with a property without using an online travel agency (OTA) or 3rd party intermediary. Direct bookings are beneficial because they connect lodging businesses directly with potential customers and increase hotel revenue through money saved from OTA commissions.

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Your ultimate guide to Google Hotel Ads

SiteMinder

Ideally, this means travellers looking for “hotels in” will be quickly enticed further down the sales funnel, which can be a click-through to your website to book directly, an OTA, or a booking generated directly on Google. Manual CPC (cost-per-click) : Bid a fixed amount when someone clicks on your ad.

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Keyword Research for Hotels

Travelboom Marketing

Then find major venues, attractions and events that happen near your hotel, such as “hotels near [venue]” or “hotels near [event name]”. Those broader terms make more sense for an OTA or Portal site that creates content to compare multiple properties. Think of independent hotel websites as David, and OTA websites as Goliath.

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10 Benefits of CPC Marketing for Hotels

Travelboom Marketing

If leveraged successfully, cost-per-click advertising can attract and retain customers , as well as introduce your brand to a new audience. This cost-effective marketing channel offers targeted campaigns that provide both a short and long-term return. Plus, when you use mobile PPC ads , you can reach customers anywhere.

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Hotel revenue management strategies and solutions

SiteMinder

That said, one has to ask: why are so many hotels’ margins still being eroded away by OTAs ? The growth of metasearch OTAs often outperform individual hotels in metasearch positioning and cost-per-click (CPC) performance. Some OTAs still use cached pricing.

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Hotel Digital Marketing in a Down Economy- Part 2

gcommerce

Online Travel Agent sites (OTAs) compete heavily on these channels to steal market share. With the current economic climate, we have seen significant increases in the average cost-per-click (CPC) on hotel metasearch channels. OTAs are pushing hard to regain their footing. decrease YoY. Remember, #SMYKM.