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Discussion - About paid links as a safe SEO strategy
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Discussion - Latest Blog Posts on Revenue Management
Below our latest Blog postings
Rate Parity or Rate Disparity - read here
Evolution on Hotel Pricing - read here
When will Hoteliers Wake up ? - read here
New Web 2.0 Hotel Website lauched - read here
Revenue Management outsourcing contract signed by Xotels - read here...
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Discussion - Experiences with The Conference Bench
Hi everybody,
is there anybody with experiences with The Conference Bench. There are already active in a couple of major cities, for a short time in Berlin, too.
What do you think about this conference benchmark tool?
Thank you in advance for your feedback.
Best Regards
Henrik
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Discussion - Opaque Pricing
We hear a lot of talk about Opaque Pricing and Opaque Travel Websites, but what is it really? It is in short a non-transparent value offer. What??? This needs to be explained in a bit more detail, right?
A non-transparent value offer, or pricing opacity, basically means that you can’t see the brand of the product type you are buying. It allows hot...
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Discussion - Upcoming Revenue Management & Distribution Seminars
Good Morning Everyone!
Below an update of our upcoming hotel revenue management and distribution events;
Frankfurt - Distribution Management - June 8 more info
Paris - Leadership in Revenue Management - Jun 29 more info
Dublin - Distribution Management - July 8 more info
Amsterdam - Distribution Management - October 12 more info Early Bird Discou...
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Discussion - When should hotels start loading 2011 rates?
Thanks for the feedback! Very helpful...
It is great to see so many are working ahead. Yes loading BAR or avg rate of the current year is a good strategy.
If a tradeshow confirms, rates can be raised afterwards...
Working 14 months ahead is the difference between being REVPAR leader or not in your compettive set...
Cheers,
Patrick
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Discussion - Vacancy: Xotels Revenue Manager
To manage our growing client portfolio, we are currently looking to add a Revenue Manager to our Barcelona team.
What are we looking for?
- a few years of hotel yield experience under the belt
- open minded + outside of the box thinking
- goal oriented + result driven
- team player
- good analytical skills
- strong excel skills
- fluent in...
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Discussion - GDS bookings improvement
It is very important to you to make some analysis as below suggestions
- How much room nights was the hotel was produce since 2 years month by month VS segment / source of business
- Since you start with GDS, how many room nights does it produce for you VS the total room nights of the hotel month by month
- Which co. you are using to serve you ...
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Discussion - Google enters into Hotel Meta-Search - hotel rates on Google Maps
Google has entered into hotel meta-search with its latest experiment to show hotel rates on Google Maps
http://bit.ly/czXcMZ
So how will this affect my hotel? A lot of question come to mind...
- How can I improve my hotels ranking on Google Maps?
- Should I change my SEO strategy?
- Can my hotel CRS be integrated into Google?
- How will this...
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Discussion - RM software - IDEAS vs. EasyRMS
Hi Alen,
I share Marc Fries’ thoughts totally.
Back to basic - do not let all “bells and whistlers” blind you when assessing which RMS you should get. Therefore I would suggest that you take a closer look at each system’s forecasting capability and accuracy based on daily MAD/MAPE* approach with different lead times (e.g. 15, 30, 45 and 90 days), ...
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Discussion - REVPAR, GOPPAR... something is missing!
In the early days we all measured the performance of our hotel based on occupancy. and ADR Then the revenue management phenomenon hit our industry and we all shifted to REVPAR. Nowadays the keyword is GOPPAR. We want to see how every booking affects our GOP. But something is missing…
On a flight last week back from London to Barcelona I have been ...
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Discussion - price comparison service (also known as shopping comparison or price engine
Hi Rafal,
You could check trivago.com
They compare prices from a lot of booking sites.
Zhivko
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Discussion - Revenue Management eBook - all for free on Xotels.com
Hi there,
Most of you will probably have noticed. We have been publishing content of our revenue management ebook on the Xotels Blog over the past months.
It is full of practical tips. The latest articles have been focussed on Forecasting. Take a look!
http://www.xotels.com/en/revenue-management/revenue-management-book
Enjoy reading about ways to ...
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Discussion - 2010 The Year of Direct Sales and the Independent Hotel
A few months ago we wrote an article stating that the hotel franchise model is dead. Looking at the innovation of the last year in online marketing and distribution we can take this statement a bit further. 2010 will be the year of the independent hotel and direct sales!
Read more here: http://www.xotels.com/en/marketing/2010...
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Discussion - Are paid links as a safe SEO strategy?
Hi Chris,
You are absolutely right it is all about valuable content. Or rather remarkalble contet = content worth making a remark about.
So write interesting articles about events, happenings and attractions in you destination to get other websites to refer and link to you.
We have been working on this with quite a few hotels and it has proven ver...
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Discussion - Xotels Job Board
Hi there everyone!
Quickly wanted to update you on the new Job Board we have luanched on Xotels.com.
We have only been live a week and are already have some interesting positions on there. For now posting vancancies is for FREE. So better take advantage if you are lookign for people.
Please check it out: Xotels Job Board.
To post jobs click on Rec...
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Discussion - 25% Discount on 2010 Revenue Managament and Distribution Training Courses
We have launched our 2010 training program for Europe. If you book now you will get a 25% early bird discount..
Check out these courses:
- Revenue Management Simulation
- Distribution Day
We still have some event in 2009 as well. See our schedule below:
- Mallorca Nov 13, Revenue Management Simulation
- Lisbon Nov 19+20, Revenue Management Simulat...
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Discussion - Xotels Blog
Hi there,
Been a while since we posted something overhere...
Nowadays we are more active on the Xotels Blog: www.xotels.com/en/blog
Subscribe to it to get articles from our revenue management book.
For discussion you should check out our LinkedIn group, click here
Hope to see you there....
Cheers,
Patrick - Xotels
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Discussion - Hotel Distribution Management Tips
Want to get more out of your distribution infrastructure?
Need some creative tips and ideas on how to improve the positioning of your hotel?
Xotels offers a 1 day Distribution Day for hotels. It is a training on distribution management in a rapidly changing environments.
Distribution Day is a full day program focused on optimizing all of your onli...
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Discussion - Is this the start of a new trend? IHG invites corporate accounts to embrace dynamic pricing
Agree with Thomas as well, and I would add that some times also the technology is not following to accomodate some concepts.
Specificaly, large chains can be very slow in adapting their systems to accomodate such changes...
Indeed also pricing is part of the larger marketing equation and delivering the message to the customer is key.
We also alway...
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