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

Cloudbeds

Many hoteliers question if it’s worthwhile investing in a direct booking strategy or if they can solely rely on online travel agencies (OTAs) like Airbnb, Booking.com, or Trip.com to fill occupancy. Upsells and add-ons. If you rely too heavily on OTAs, you risk giving away your profit in commissions. Travelers crave experiences.

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How to Improve Efficiency in Hotels? Reduce Operating Cost

Hotelogix

Ensure real-time OTA distribution with a Channel Manager OTAs are a significant source of bookings, and you must work with multiple OTAs to drive more indirect bookings. A channel manager automates and synchronizes your hotel's rates and inventory across all OTAs in real time.

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Want to increase your hotel’s revenue? Focus on guest experience

STAAH

From before they arrive and visit third-party sites or OTAs to look for accommodation or online reviews to your website, email communications and the actual stay – everything contributes towards guest experience. These communications become a fantastic opportunity to upsell your services. Clever ideas to improve guest experience. #1

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Late bookings: Guide to last minute bookings for hotels

SiteMinder

Similarly, Phocuswright found that 30% of searches are on online travel agent (OTA) mobile websites, and nearly one in four on hotel mobile sites are for same-day or next-day check in. There are several drawbacks to this approach… Preventing last minute overbookings Firstly, you may overbook your rooms.

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

SiteMinder

Collecting data, prioritising attention to detail, and optimising personalisation are all keys to perfecting upsells and ancillary services. Our constant struggle has been efficiently managing availability, inventory, task management, and online travel agencies (OTAs),” said Pawarisa.

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Leveraging Technology to Drive More Bookings for Your Hotel

StayNTouch

This can include a hotel’s website, its social media platforms, phone or email reservations, metasearch engines, or OTAs. The Billboard Effect shouldn’t be underestimated, as a study by Cornell estimates that being listed on an OTA corresponds with a 7.5-26% 26% increase in hotel reservations. 26% increase in hotel reservations.

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What is a channel manager? All you need to know

Cloudbeds

And even then, manually-managed distribution is risky: any delays in updating rates and availability on a channel’s extranet could mean selling a room that isn’t available or selling at a lower rate, which can lead to overbooking and sub-optimal yield management. The same happens with a cancellation.