Industry trends (11)

Industry trends 16 Mar 2021

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 customers at the Hotel California...

Industry trends 11 Mar 2021

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...

Industry trends 10 Mar 2021

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...

Industry trends 5 Mar 2021

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...

Industry trends 4 Mar 2021

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...

Industry trends 24 Feb 2021

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...

Industry trends 22 Feb 2021

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...

Company 18 Feb 2021

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....

Industry trends 12 Feb 2021

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...

Industry trends 5 Feb 2021

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...

Industry trends 3 Feb 2021

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]”.

Industry trends 1 Feb 2021

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...

Industry trends 28 Jan 2021

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...

Industry trends 21 Jan 2021

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,...

Industry trends 14 Jan 2021

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...

Industry trends 7 Jan 2021

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...

Industry trends 5 Jan 2021

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...

Industry trends 8 Dec 2020

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...

Industry trends 1 Dec 2020

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...

Industry trends 26 Nov 2020

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...

Industry trends 18 Nov 2020

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...

Industry trends 1 Sep 2020

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....

Industry trends 13 Aug 2020

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...

Industry trends 28 Jul 2020

Track the latest coronavirus hotel data

Distilling the data In unprecedented times like these, it’s easy to feel a lack of control. Some of us may be in a position to help those battling...

Industry trends 30 Jun 2020

How to boost your hotel TripAdvisor ranking, and other review platforms to..

Online reviews are of huge value to hotels, with 96% of travellers admitting that they find reviews important when researching a hotel. And if ever...

Industry trends 19 Jun 2020

The Word in Hospitality podcast | Highlights from episode 1

The Word in Hospitality is a brand new hospitality podcast that encourages discussion and provides food for thought around some of the key topics...

Industry trends 22 May 2020

Maintaining the art of hospitality in a post-Covid world

COVID-19 has changed many fundamental things about the way we live our lives. Some of them, like the lockdown, are only short-term, but there are...

Industry trends 18 May 2020

The future of hospitality after the Coronavirus

This is the third and final follow-up blog to our Hospitality and the Coronavirus webinars, where we check in with our speakers to see how the...

Industry trends 14 May 2020

Preparing for the hospitality upturn after Coronavirus

This is the second part of our follow-up to our Hospitality and the Coronavirus webinars. The situation continues to change week on week, so we...

Industry trends 7 May 2020

React, respond, recover: the highlights from Siteminder’s webinar

Last week, Siteminder hosted a webinar about how hoteliers are coping with the continued fallout from COVID-19, and more importantly what can be done...