The Mews Blog

Marketing & distribution 28 Feb 2024

How to Message Your Hotel Guests: download the data-led guide

It’s easy to make assumptions about what guests want. After all, we’re all guests at various points throughout the year. But one of the remarkable things about people is that...

Industry trends 19 Feb 2024

2024 hospitality trends in the Nordics

What does the Nordic data say? The demand for travel in 2023 remained strong. Across the Nordics, average occupancy was 53%, up 4% on 2022. This is...

Industry trends 14 Feb 2024

The Mews Data Dive: assessing hospitality’s performance in 2023

What’s in the Mews Data Dive? There’s no unified set of must-track metrics for hoteliers – at least, not yet. Although our guide on New Era of...

Industry trends 15 Jan 2024

Essential hotel metrics for General Managers

The must-track areas for hotel metrics There’s a tendency to obsess over a few traditional hospitality metrics. We don’t want to name names, but...

Company 8 Jan 2024

Mews wins Best PMS at the HotelTechAwards 2024

What are the HotelTechAwards? The HotelTechAwards are run by Hotel Tech Report, the go-to place for reliable hospitality tech reviews and insights....

Industry trends 19 Dec 2023

Hospitality Insights: 2023 recap and 2024 predictions, part one

Matt Welle, CEO, Mews What are Matt’s learnings from 2023?

Technology 27 Nov 2023

How to excel in the evolving world of serviced apartments

It’s a very interesting time to run a serviced apartment or aparthotel brand. This type of blended accommodation sits right in the sweet spot of the...

Best practices 2 Nov 2023

What went wrong at The Bear? Lessons in hospitality

The power of the POS One of the first things we need to address are the levels of stress at the restaurant. Especially at The Original Beef of...

Company 25 Oct 2023

Richard Valtr, Mews and hospitality tech: Hospitable podcast highlights

Ever listened to the Hospitable podcast by Omniboost? Consider this our official recommendation. And if you’re looking for a place to start, there’s...

Product 16 Oct 2023

Text messaging to guests with Mews SMS Package: boost revenue, save time,..

The benefits of text messaging guests with Mews SMS Package Our SMS package was specifically designed to increase online check-in for guests. Prior...

Industry trends 3 Oct 2023

The Mews Data Snap: how did hospitality perform in summer 2023?

What is the Mews Data Snap? The Mews Data Snap provides a snapshot of hospitality’s performance during the summer of 2023 across several key areas....

Industry trends 15 Aug 2023

The eight best ways to diversify revenue in hotels

How hotels can diversify their revenue Diversifying your revenue is essentially a means of maximizing your property’s full potential. And it doesn’t...

Company 29 Jun 2023

Introducing Mews Multi-Property

The need to do more with less is a mantra we hear a lot in hospitality these days. And the need is only increasing as costs go up, hiring and...

Technology 8 Jun 2023

Seven signs it’s time to switch your Property Management System (PMS)

Company 9 May 2023

Being a working parent at Mews

Parenthood at Mews In those early years of being a start-up, Mews simply didn’t have that many parents working with us. Most likely the fast-paced,...

Industry trends 17 Apr 2023

Exploring Unfold: big changes in hospitality

Mews Unfold 2023 took place a couple of weeks ago and boy, it was special. If you missed it, you can view recordings of all our main stage sessions...

Industry trends 4 Apr 2023

Inspiring independents: what you can learn from our new guide

What’s in the guide? Explore eight inspiring independent hotels from around the world. Find out how operational efficiency feeds into brand ethos,...

Industry trends 3 Apr 2023

Exploring Unfold: what is the new standard in hospitality?

Mews Unfold 2023 is the year’s most exciting hospitality event. That’s a fact. Set in the stunning Muziekgebouw in central Amsterdam, it will see...

Industry trends 6 Mar 2023

Exploring Unfold: the new standard of revenue management in hotels

The theme for this year’s Unfold is The New Standard in Hospitality. Specifically: how have changing guest expectations and revolutions in technology...

Company 17 Feb 2023

Mews Unfold 2023: reshaping the future of hospitality together

This year's theme: The New Standard in Hospitality Standards and expectations in hospitality have changed. Welcome to a new era where...

Industry trends 27 Jan 2023

Learnings from the Mews Data Dive: the state of hospitality in H2 2022

How was 2022 for you? Are you happy with your property’s performance? Sometimes it can be tricky to answer this question without wider context;...

Industry trends 26 Jan 2023

Best 15 ideas to enhance hotel guest experience

Why is it important to enhance hotel guest experience? Enhancing the hotel guest experience through different means is crucial in order to enforce...

Company 20 Dec 2022

Top reads in 2022: the best hospitality content of the year

We’re not sure about you, but 2022 felt like a busy year. There was a lot going on, globally but also in the world of hospitality. Staff shortages...

Company 16 Dec 2022

Life at Mews: Spanish stories with Albert Arranz

Albert Arranz was asked to join Mews three times before he took the plunge. A Barcelona native, he worked as General Manager at Golden Tulip in his...

Company 1 Dec 2022

Life at Mews: off-grid Spanish stories

Mews is a remote-friendly company. In other words, you don’t have to live close to one of our offices – or any office at all – in order to work for...

17 Nov 2022

Six Benefits of Combining Your POS and PMS: download your free guide

Digital ordering and mobile point-of-sale is one of the most obvious and successful examples of how technology has changed hospitality in recent...

Company 15 Nov 2022

Life at Mews: Spanish stories with Francesco Longo

You may have heard us talk about how amazing the Mews culture is. If you haven’t, your first port of call should be the culture section on our...

10 Nov 2022

Mews Marketplace integrations update: November 2022 edition

Partners that went live in October Time to find out more about our brilliant new Marketplace integration partners.

Company 9 Nov 2022

Mews is a Major Player: what the IDC MarketScape PMS Vendor Assessment means

This week, IDC released their IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hospitality Property Management Systems 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US48098122, November...

Company 3 Nov 2022

Building a Mews community in France

Mews community in France At the time of writing, there are more Mews hotels in France than any other country. That means we have a large pool of...