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Six most important challenges faced by the hotel industry
What are the most important hotel challenges? There are many obstacles that the hotel industry faces and we’ll look at each of them one by one.
Automation, housekeeping and you: how to optimize your hotel housekeeping
Barely anything had changed in hospitality housekeeping over the past decades. But thanks to Covid, even departments that hadn’t seen big shifts in a...
What are hotel aggregators and how do they work?
What are hotel aggregators? A hotel aggregator is essentially a hotel consolidator. They can be responsible for a part of hotel room inventory,...
Top 5 reservation software for small hotels in 2022
What functionalities must your reservation software have? Hoteliers who own small hotels and seek to grow their revenue through direct bookings have...
The best ways to make interactive hotel experiences for guests
How to create interactive hotel experiences Creating strategies to make your hotel interactive is something that every hotelier should consider when...
How can hotel guest engagement strategies help your hotel?
What is guest engagement? Guest engagement is like the “customer engagement” principle in marketing. It is the process by which a hotel brand...
Why is hotel rate parity important in the hospitality industry?
What is hotel rate parity? Hotel rate parity is the policy by which hotels maintain consistent rates across all distribution channels, including...
How to open or start your own hostel, step by step
How your property can sell or change a nonrefundable hotel reservation
Nonrefundable rates are a strategy hotels use to help reduce cancellations and secure payments upfront. It sounds simple, but we all know that the...
7 most relevant Millennial travel trends for hotels
What do we mean by Millennial travelers? A Millennial traveler is someone that was born between 1981 and 1996, representing an incredibly large...
How to get more direct bookings at your hotel
What is the difference between direct and indirect bookings? As the term suggests, direct bookings are those that are made directly through your own...
May’s new Mews integrations
May is usually reliable for some good sun, but if you’ve been anywhere in the Northern hemisphere this last month, you’ll know we couldn’t rely on ...
A different kind of Magic Mike
This article originally appeared on theMews Developers blog.
How to respond to bad hotel reviews and what to do to avoid them
The impact of bad hotel reviews It has been shown that 35% of internet users would think twice about booking if they found more negative than...
Pop-up hotels: a new alternative way of comfort in hospitality
What is a pop-up hotel? A pop-up hotel is a temporary structure that is a way of providing accommodation for both seasonal or unique events. Those...
How to prepare for the great hotel reopening
Go contact-free It feels like we’ve been talking about this for a long time now, but the desire for contact-free stays isn’t going away. Andas...
How Google maps can help to increase visits to your hotel
What is Google Maps and why is it important for hotels? Google Maps doesn’t need any introduction as in the United States alone in 2020, 23.42...
Remote working: a way forward in the new normal
Remote working isn’t new to the technology industry. We’ve been working this way in one guise or another for a couple of decades at least. What’s new...
Types of hotel security data breaches and how to protect your property
What is a hotel data breach? A hotel data breach is essentially when the private information of guests and customers falls into the hands of the...
The world’s most innovative hotels
How to create the best hotel pre-arrival emails
It’s easy to dismiss the hotel pre-arrival email as a nice to have. After all, you’ve already emailed these guests with their booking confirmation,...
The hotels that inspired us in 2020/2021
It’s easy to do good and be generous when times are easy. Going the extra mile when times are tough is the real mark of heroism. The last year has...
Best 10 online travel agents (OTAs) to boost hotel bookings
What are OTAs for hotels? OTAs for hotels, also known as Online Travel Agencies or Online Tour Operators, are third-party websites that are used for...
Incident management for 10+ cross-functional teams
This article originally appeared on the Mews Developers blog.
April's new Mews integrations
It’s impossible to be the best at everything. Believe us, we’ve tried. But one thing we’re sure we’re best at is connecting with other amazing...
Accept iDEAL payments with Mews
What are iDEAL payments? iDEAL is an online payment method that lets consumers pay for goods or services online – in our case, it allows your guests...
The importance of the hotel curator in the future of hospitality
What is a hotel curator and its role? A hotel curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator referred to someone who took care of the...
How to go contact-free without sacrificing the guest experience
Finding the balance: guest experience, installation cost and operational efficiency During and post-Covid, demands for hygiene and safety will be...
Best hotel booking sites in 2023
What are the eight best hotel booking sites to list deals? Booking sites are important places to list deals in order to drive bookings, particularly...
How can hotel blogging help you in your marketing strategy?
What is hotel blogging? Hotel blogging is a realm of content marketing designed to grow your hotel’s website organically. Essentially, blogging...
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