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Industry trends (11)
Industry trends (11)
What are the 5 best central reservation systems?
One of the most important parts of running hotel operations is streamlining processes, and there’s no more efficient way to do this than having a central reservation system. So...
How long can a guest stay at a hotel and what’s the minimum stay?
How long can a guest stay at a hotel? There’s a range of accommodations available to meet different travelers’ needs, and how long guests can lodge...
Everything you need to know about PSD2 and Mews
Every so often, a new piece of legislation comes along that causes headaches and restless nights for businesses. You probably remember the endless...
The Metrics that Matter | Download the free report
Every hotel generates a wealth of data. A veritable ocean of it, in fact. But how do you know what the most important, relevant metrics are for your...
March’s new Mews integrations
A connected ecosystem is much stronger than one that stands on its own. That’s why Mews continues to seek out the best solutions in hospitality tech...
What are the advantages of transient business and how do you attract it?
What is transient business? Hotel business can be classified into group and non-group travel, and transient business lies under the non-group travel...
Options are seed investments: our approach to employee ownership
For a long time, as a Founder, I struggled what to think of options. For the first few years, while Mews struggled and ground out growth, I spent...
What went wrong at the Hotel California?
Hotel California is a great song. We all know it, we all love it. However, it doesn’t exactly paint the hotel industry in a good light. The poor...
Embracing blended living: how software is changing the work/life balance
Technology is leading a generational mindset change about how we compartmentalize our lives. Mews founder, Richard Valtr, considers the implication...
How to increase revenue with day use hotel rooms
There are two ways of looking at the world: binary thinking and spectrum thinking. The binary on/off, yes/no mindset is comforting because it’s easy...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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....
The next generation of hospitality: insights from the class of 2020
Hospitality stands on the cusp of change. Even before the events of the last few months, our industry was finally beginning to embrace technology en...
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