Archive for July, 2010

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31-07-2010 » Hotel industry news

EZYield.com, the originator of automated online distribution management solutions for the worldwide hospitality industry, has helped the world-famous Nickelodeon Suites Resort save time and labor by streamlining its channel management efforts, slashing the time spent on tedious data input and simplifying precision yield analytics, and allowing more labor time to be dedicated to guest service.

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31-07-2010 » Hotel industry news

The ASEAN Hotel Review shows that the affect of the on-going political crisis in Thailand has not significantly affected the hotel performance of the Thai coastal resorts of Hua Hin and Phuket. Conversely, the hotel market of the resort island of Bali underperforms in RevPAR growth when compared to the Indonesian destinations of Jakarta and Bandung, the West Java provincial capital. Nevertheless, Bali still records the highest actual occupancy (71 percent) and ADR (US$121) compared to the other Indonesian destinations for the first six months this year.

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31-07-2010 » Hotel industry news

Video Interview with Pegasus’ COO Ric Leutwyler on What Hoteliers can do to Increase Booking Ratios.

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31-07-2010 » Hotel industry news

Think about it this way: your website is just like your very own storefront – allowing you to present your business in different ways to make buyers to come inside…

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31-07-2010 » Hotel industry news

Published in conjunction with STR (Smith Travel Research) and endorsed by the Hotel Association of Canada. This publication summarizes weekly occupancy and average room rates from major cities in Canada.

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31-07-2010 » Hotel industry news

You’ve got your OTA offers out, your auction site offers, your email offers and now your Twitter and Facebook offers. Do you know what promotions are returning the best bang for your buck? Chances are if you are offering the same thing through all the different channels you aren’t targeting users enough and could be missing out on revenue and engagement opportunities.

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30-07-2010 » Hotel industry news

Do you have a smartphone or plan to buy one in the next 90 days? If not you’re quickly becoming a minority. To accommodate the tremendous increase in users, manufacturers and providers are pumping out a dizzying array of smartphone options and hi-tech features to choose from. But, while the bevy of Blackberries, Palms, Droids and Motorolas are providing tempting eye candy for consumers, one phone still leads the pack in both adaptation and satisfaction - Apple’s iPhone.

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30-07-2010 » Hotel industry news

Published in conjunction with STR (Smith Travel Research) and endorsed by the Hotel Association of Canada. This publication summarizes occupancy and average room rates from major cities in Canada.

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30-07-2010 » Hotel industry news

E-Guide Services, Inc. (EGS) announced results of an independent Arbiton Inc. study of its innovative E-GuideTV service, an in-room hotel television channel guide. Results prove the Out-of-Home advertising medium to be both a valuable and popular amenity to hotel guests and an outstandingly effective medium for advertisers.

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