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Discussion - About paid links as a safe SEO strategy
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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 - GDS bookings improvement
Dear Sergey and Toby,
I have same question as a Sergey. I am represent 4 hotels in Moscow and at the moment we are presented in GDS through Synxis. We also start working with consorcia, but unfortunately still have only 1 or 2 % reservation through GDS.
Toby, did you have any information or advice about moscow market or how improve situation with...
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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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Discussion - Where to find more active discussion
Hi everyone,
If you want to take advantage of more knowledge sharing and active discussion;
Subscribe to our blog RSS: http://www.xotels.com/en/blog?format=feed&type=rss
Check out our Xotels Blog: http://www.xotels.com/en/blog
Join us on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=89338&trk=hb_side_g
Join us on FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/p...
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Discussion - Revenue Management Training Courses in Asia
Any plans to bring this course to the US?
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Discussion - 2 for the price of 1!
Special offer on Xotels Travel 2.0 workshops
Pay 1 get 2 entries;
Barcelona July 7
Amsterdam - July 09
Roma - July 16
Prague - July 23
And many more events... Find out on: Xotels.com
Only till June 30th so book now!
See you soon ...
Patrick - Xotels...
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Discussion - Best Hotel Marketing Videos - Homage to La Quinta
Homage to La Quinta Inns & Suites for some amazing hotel marketing videos. So simple and a great sense of humor!
La Quinta Inns & Suites has made a great hotel marketing video campaign that deserves the applause of the entire industry. It has been a while since these were originally aired, 2007, but I think it is good to refresh your memories and ...
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Discussion - Top 20 Best Practices for DMO Websites
Top 20 Best Practices for DMO Websites
Lately I have been taking a look at DMO (destination marketing organization) websites and online strategies as many hoteliers have been voicing to us that they feel they do not get enough support.
Honestly there is still a lot of work to be done. Tourism Board, Convention Bureau and Tourist Office websites ca...
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Discussion - Commission Free Hotel Booking Portal - Dream or Reality (some day!)?
Still you can try the below sites
http://www.hotelsuperportal.com/
http://www.asiarooms.com/
http://www.flyertalk.com/
some of them allow to add hotels information for free to be published within there directories
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Discussion - Requesting Feedback - Free Seminar Entry
Hi Xotels Fans!
We would like to ask you to share your seminar experiences with fellow hoteliers on FaceBook.
We would highly appreciate if you could make a posting on the Wall of our corporate page in Facebook about the Xotels events you have attended.
Next week we will give away 2 free seminar entries to the people who did so...
Thanks!
Patrick ...
Revenue Management 
