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What is a hotel overbooking strategy? +4 ways to avoid overbookings

Cloudbeds

Overbookings can be stressful for the front desk and the guest, but you can manage them with ease if you have a proper plan in place. While for some hoteliers it’s best to avoid overbookings altogether, for others, a good strategy can increase revenue, improve the occupancy rate and mitigate losses. What is an overbooking strategy?

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How Ouklip Place Bed and Breakfast saves time, improves operational structures, and boosts direct business with Little Hotelier

Little Hotelier

Simple, structured operations In the past, Gloria managed reservations manually, but this left her feeling drained. “I I constantly had to be present to manage bookings from OTAs, Airbnb and direct channels,” she explained. The moment she started using Little Hotelier’s hotel management platform , Gloria’s operation transformed.

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Chatrium Hotels & Residences “revolutionise” operations and find success with SiteMinder

SiteMinder

After 12 years in operation, we recently spoke to Corporate Director for Revenue & Digital Distribution Pawarisa Hirantanes about the group’s journey and its satisfaction with SiteMinder as a technology partner. “Our Since implementing SiteMinder our operations have undergone a remarkable transformation.

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Little Hotelier delivers successful start to Mamori House at Koh Larn

Little Hotelier

When we first started the business, we didn’t know which channels to sell through and what to do if overbooking occurs when selling through multiple channels at the same time,” said Licha. It helps us manage our rooms to prevent overbooking. As a new business, it was vital to attract customers and create business turnover.

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Terracotta Hotel & Resort unlocks direct bookings and efficiency with SiteMinder

SiteMinder

As the largest hotel in Dalat with many room types, Terracotta Resort was in a situation where inventory management on more than 10 OTA channels became increasingly difficult,” said Mr. Triết, “The inability to update rooms and rates immediately is a potential obstacle to revenue flow and a constant obstacle for employees.

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Automation is the key to collaboration between Bali Garden Beach Resort & SiteMinder

SiteMinder

In the digital age managing hotels has a new set of challenges, especially the need to stay alert with room availability & price adjustment while managing online travel agents (OTA). Things get harder when everything needs to be done manually, and the chance of overbooking is high. Establishing room rates is no longer a problem.

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What Triggers Hotelier's Anxiety?

Hotelogix

A common trend with novice hotels and hoteliers is to sign up with as many OTAs - Online Travel Agents (like booking.com , Expedia, etc) as possible. This is a fine strategy to start at, however, the problem is managing the hotel on all these OTAs. We used it to automate this rigmarole of updating inventories on OTAs.

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