Industry trends (11)

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...

Industry trends 24 Feb 2020

Raiders of the lost content

Ever since I entered the digital environment, content has always been at the centre of all architectural decisions and design. Remember the terms Web...

Industry trends 12 Feb 2020

What's new with hotel door locks?

Back in the heady days of November 2017, we wrote a blog post about hotel door locks. It’s really good — you should check it out before reading this...

Industry trends 3 Feb 2020

Hotel hacks to run a modern, profitable property

One of the perks of working for Mews is that I get to travel. Not only that, I get to see loads of different hotels: from boutique to corporate; from...

Industry trends 29 Jan 2020

The Future of Hotel Rate Distribution: getting back on track

I commute. Not every day, but enough to ‘appreciate’ the experience of it. I commute from Whistable, Kent, to London, which — on paper — should take...

Industry trends 7 Nov 2019

Building simplicity in: why hospitality needs the online check-out

As both hoteliers and guests there's a situation we recognise all too easily: it's the morning of departure after a pleasant stay, but the clock is...

Industry trends 12 Sep 2019

How Fintech is Disrupting Hospitality

Industry trends 9 Sep 2019

The hidden cost of virtual cards

Industry trends 26 Aug 2019

Personalisation, data and AI are transforming Spanish hotels

Industry trends 8 Aug 2019

PSD2 guide for hoteliers

A year on from GDPR mania and there’s another major piece of legislation for those operating in the EU/EEA that’s about to kick in courtesy of the...

Industry trends 16 May 2019

All You Need to Know About Upselling and Cross-Selling

Connected smart rooms, AI-powered chatbots and AR-enhanced apps are phenomenal platforms via which to showcase your finest immersive and interactive...