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How to effectively manage your hotel inventory
Managing the hotel inventory effectively is one of the key strategies to maximizing revenue in the hospitality industry. Only by controlling and selling your rooms in a targeted...
Women in tech | Mews CMO, Leah Anathan, on bridging the gender gap
This year’s International Women’s Day falls on Monday the 8th of March, and the theme is #ChooseToChallenge. We caught up with Leah Anathan, CMO...
Learn or die: tools and tips for proactive learning
This article originally appeared on the Mews Developers blog. At work, do you need to be a stronger weightlifter to outdo more senior guys? Not...
Government hospitality grants: a round-up of digitalization funding
Given the unprecedented disruption of Covid-19, many governments have set up special programs or grants to help out beleaguered businesses. One of...
6 advantages of using a central reservation system (CRS)
What are the advantages of using a central reservation system? There are plenty of advantages to using a CRS that a hotelier can benefit from. The...
Our vision to reimagine the future of guest experiences
It’s our unshakable belief that there's always a better way. A better way for guests to book and interact with products and services. A better way...
What are the differences between yield management and revenue management?
What is revenue and yield management? Revenue management is the practice of predicting or anticipating customer behaviour, and then optimizing...
What are the differences between CRS and GDS in the hotel industry?
What is CRS and GDS? The primary function of a GDS is to assist travel agents who are looking for hotels that satisfy certain criteria. These...
The 15 places we’d most like to visit in 2021
Let’s face it: it hasn’t exactly been a brilliant last 12 months. But while the world has changed, our innate desire to travel remains undiminished....
8 advantages of self service kiosks for hotels
What are the advantages of self service check-in/out Kiosks? Better use of hotel resources To gain a customer’s loyalty, it’s vital to provide...
What are the advantages and disadvantages of yield management in hotels?
What are the advantages of yield management in hotels? From increased revenue to understanding booking patterns, decreased errors and an increased...
The 7 most important KPIs for hotel industry
What is the meaning of KPI? A key performance indicator is a measurable value that illustrates how an organization or company is doing in relation to...
Local SEO for hotels: how to optimize for Google’s hotel map in 2021
When a traveler is researching which hotel to stay at, one of their first ports of call is to Google: “hotel in [destination]”.
What is an overbooking strategy in hotels and what are its advantages?
What is a hotel overbooking strategy? Overbooking occurs when a customers book more rooms than the actual number available in a hotel. The hotel...
Mews product principles: explaining the logic behind our platform
As software moves from on-premises to cloud, it's more and more important to understand not only what its current features are, but how it’s going to...
Hotel PMS integration strategies: embracing a connected future
It’s rare to get so many property management system leaders in the same conversation, and ROOMDEX’s hotel Integration Strategies webinar was lively,...
Hotel Reopening Diaries: EMA House
While COVID-19 put much of the world on hold, EMA House Hotel Suites and Serviced Apartments in Zurich saw it as an opportunity to move their...
The best reads of 2020
Although 2020 was a year to forget for many reasons, there are plenty of important learnings we can take from it. We looked through the data and...
5 hotel lobby design tips and why you should rethink yours
Ask someone to shut their eyes and describe the typical hotel lobby design, and you’ll usually get the same answer: a soulless, empty space, polished...
Top 10 benefits and advantages of a hotel management system
What are the advantages of using a hotel management system? In case you still need convincing, here are ten advantages of implementing a modern hotel...
Our 2020 in numbers | Mews year in review
2020 isn’t likely to go down as one of our favourite numbers. It’s been a difficult year for everyone in hospitality, but despite the hardships we’ve...
Don't call us a PMS | Mews CEO, Matt Welle, on the changing world of..
When Bob Dylan wrote one of the world’s most memorable protest songs, he definitely wasn’t singing about hospitality technology. But he might as well...
13 reasons to choose a cloud PMS for your hotel
Back in the simpler times of 2018, a Fuel Travel survey found that 55% of hotel managers weren’t satisfied with their current property management...
How to choose the best revenue management systems for hotels
Revenue Management Systems are nothing new – they’ve been around for decades. But it’s only in the last few years, with the introduction of smart...
What does the hotel of the future look like?
Let’s allow ourselves to look beyond the near-future, beyond COVID-19, to where our industry should be aiming. So what will the next generation of...
We’re delighted to welcome Base7booking to the Mews family
Français | Deutsch The acquisition from global travel platform trivago provides Base7booking customers with a specialist cloud-based property...
What is Mews Analytics? The business intelligence for the modern hotelier
Data is the new gold. At least, that’s been the mantra of businesses around the world for the last few years. We actually think it’s true, but the...
Welcome to the new Mews: the story of the rebrand
It’s 2012. In an unfinished hotel back office, Richard Valtr convinces a hotel owner to give him the money to build his own hotel guest solution,...
Hotel Reopening Diaries: The Central House
Although for many hoteliers around the world the slow recovery is already underway, there are many who still feel the struggle of a constantly...
Lessons from COVID-19: teaching hospitality during a pandemic
In a recent blog, we interviewed a group of 2020 hospitality graduates to see how the next generation of hoteliers view the state of the industry....
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