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OTA’s push Hoteliers Out Of Business

In the past couple of years, I was able to meet with hotel managers, hotel owners and regular guests in Thailand and Phuket at different conferences and seminars organized by/for the hospitality [...]

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Hostel Businesses on the rise in Thailand

The hotel business is growing rapidly in Thailand and the domestic travel sector has been identified as the primary reason. The rapid growth of low-cost airlines and an expanding middle class in [...]

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Digital Monsters in hotel revenue management

Revenue Management has become a really big deal in the hospitality industry as owners and directors have come to realize over the years. The airline industry was the first to introduce cheaper [...]

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Hotel Strategy 2016: Which channels invest in?

There’s no denying that in a time when the hotel operators are finding it hard to boost their results in the world, it all comes down to them to find solutions and strategies that will implement [...]

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Strategy 2016: Improve Direct bookings

For a very long time, people in the hotel industry have talked about the idea of better educating people when it comes to the rates, what they mean and what exactly they stand for. And since [...]

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Booking.com is showing off its muscles

In what can be seen as a very interesting turn of events, Booking.com is starting to ask hotels to remove a widget that shows their rates for the properties alongside other agencies. This is [...]

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Hotel Acquisitions – Who is next?

The hotel industry is becoming more and more alert mostly because it manages to offer new possibilities but at the same time the major companies are making a comeback. This is especially true [...]

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AirBnB friend or enemy?

Ever since the AirBnB company was created, the hotel industry has started to study the overall impact of what this company is actually doing to their revenues, but only recently a startup based [...]

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Booking restrictions, still 2015?

There’s no secret that most hoteliers are changing and modifying the price strategy that they use as time passes. They either choose a price for the minimum length of stay when things are busy [...]

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China dominance in the hospitality world

In what can be seen as an unexpected turn of events, two of the largest hospitality groups in China shook hands and merged recently. In doing so, both Plateno and Jin Jang managed to create the [...]