Articles tagged “guest experience”

“Platform” companies like Airbnb, Amazon and Uber have reinvented their respective industries by seamlessly linking together all aspects of their operations and customer experience into a single system. The lessons…

There’s more opportunity than ever in the fast-growing vacation rental business, but staying competitive now takes much more than providing a great property — owners and managers must continually upgrade everything from their technology to their guest experience.

Connecting effectively and cost-efficiently with travelers from emerging regions is a growing challenge for brands, especially as content marketing becomes a bigger factor in reaching global consumers.

Enhanced guest profiles and progressive models for the guest lifecycle are key to the new advantages data analytics bring to hotel marketing and operations. Coupled with automation and effective metrics,…

Marriott's internal story about how it's repositioning around technology, innovation, and an appreciation of both the individual guest and staff member resonates with Marriott's target Gen Y/Z audiences.

It's another chapter in the convergence of everything: Expedia, the online travel agency, invested in the Alice guest-experience app as Expedia tries to get deeper into providing technology services for hotels. Everyone's doing it -- or will soon.

With record occupancy levels, Hilton Worldwide believes it is in a position to address what it views as unacceptable cancellation levels even after instituting a a more stringent policy at the beginning of the year.

Fees aren't all bad, but all fees can be made to seem bad by poor positioning, communication, and presentation.

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In the highly competitive hospitality space, hotels are increasingly looking to improve the guest experience pre-, during- and post-stay with data-driven communication solutions aimed at creating and sustaining meaningful relationships…