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How to choose the best booking engine in the marketplace

How to choose the best booking engine in the marketplace 1592 984 HotelREZ

As any successful accommodation provider will be able to tell you, your hotel’s website should be your most profitable channel, and should be seeing the highest amount of bookings. What better way to increase your website conversion rate than by ensuring you have the best booking engine on your site? By incorporating a booking engine…

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Hospitality employers: here are the top skills to look for in employees

Recruiting top talent | 5 skills all hospitality employees need

Recruiting top talent | 5 skills all hospitality employees need 1754 1062 HotelREZ
Finding the right staff for your hotel can be challenging. As customer-facing employees, they will be the first point of contact your guests have with your hotel. They are crucial to making a good first impression and building up your reputation. Recruitment for these roles is therefore not something to be taken lightly or overlooked. [...]read more
Hotel Metasearch 101 e-guide

Hotel Metasearch 101 [e-guide]

Hotel Metasearch 101 [e-guide] 690 360 HotelREZ
In our latest e-guide, ‘Hotel Metasearch for Independent Hoteliers’, you can find out how travel metasearch works, who the key players are, and a few basics tips for the metasearch marketing game for hotels. Download the e-guide > Nearly one in two travellers (47%) uses metasearch to compare hotel prices online, according to data collected by ResearchNow between 2013 [...]read more

A Hacker’s Guide to Hotel Marketing

A Hacker’s Guide to Hotel Marketing 690 360 HotelREZ

For most independent hotels, usually short-staffed, the ways of hotel marketing can be a daunting task. As a hotel manager, you probably lack the time to delve properly into even the most mundane of marketing tasks, such as creating a poster announcing cocktail hour at the hotel bar; let alone updating your hotel’s status on…

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HotelREZ A Hacker's Guide to Hotel Marketing

A Hacker’s Guide to Hotel Marketing

A Hacker’s Guide to Hotel Marketing 690 360 HotelREZ

Essential tips and tools to turn a busy hotel manager into an online marketing superstar in no-time.

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Chinese Outbound Travel a HotelREZ visual e-Guide

Chinese Outbound Travel [e-guide]

Chinese Outbound Travel [e-guide] 690 360 HotelREZ

This March HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts launches its latest product, REZChina, aimed at helping independent hotels access the very lucrative market of Chinese outbound travel. Get our latest e-guide ‘Chinese Outbound Travel: a visual guide for hotels’ below.

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Targeting the Indian Outbound Traveller-HotelREZ

Insights into the Indian Outbound Travel Market [e-guide]

Insights into the Indian Outbound Travel Market [e-guide] 691 361 HotelREZ
The UNWTO predicts the Indian outbound travel market will account for 50 million tourists by 2020, and its total outbound spending is expected to cross the US$28 billion mark. This, coupled with the country’s new generation of middle class tourists, set to grow even further, makes it a potential tourist goldmine for thousands of destinations [...]read more
Twitter: Best Practices for Hotels

Twitter: Best Practices for Hotels [e-guide]

Twitter: Best Practices for Hotels [e-guide] 690 360 HotelREZ
In the past year alone, 70% of followers are believed to have taken some action after seeing travel content on Twitter. Furthermore, an impressive 60M tweets are said to have mentioned hotels, while only a mere 21M tweets mentioned holidays. If that doesn’t make you think twice about having your own hotel’s account on twitter, then [...]read more
How to get corporate business as an independent hotel

How to Get Corporate Business as an Independent (Hotel)

How to Get Corporate Business as an Independent (Hotel) 600 360 HotelREZ
Every year hotels around the world compete for corporate business. The “RFP season” as it is known in the industry, involves corporate travel managers sending an RFP (request for proposal) bid to a hotel from a client such as IBM, Vodafone or HSBC. While the contracts for these clients can be extremely lucrative for a [...]read more
What Travel Writers look for in a Hotel

What Travel Writers Look for in a Hotel

What Travel Writers Look for in a Hotel 690 360 HotelREZ
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne sure-fire way of getting your hotel in front of thousands of potential guests’ noses, is to have it featured in the press. Even though today we are living in a world of social media and peer to peer reviews; travel magazines, travel guides, newspaper supplements and even travel blogs still go a long way [...]read more