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A hotel marketing blog for
serious hotel marketers.

Don’t Ignore Your Sales Team
Group and meetings business can be highly profitable. Help your sales team drive group revenue and you will all benefit.

Turn Need Periods Into Brand-Enhancing Opportunities
Four offer tactics luxury hotels can leverage to fill room nights and need periods

Generate Group Leads With Rich Destination Content
Content isn’t just for attracting leisure travelers. Woo meeting planners and group guests with your depth of local knowledge.

Is Your Hotel Wedding-Worthy?
5 Ways Hotels Can Make Their Venue More Attractive To Brides

Is Your Website Meeting Planner-Friendly?
There’s lots of information meeting planners will need before booking your hotel. Make sure it’s readily available on your website.

Mind The Metrics That Matter
Suffering from stat overload? Hone your focus to just the meaningful KPIs.

Stop Reporting On Hotel Digital Marketing In A Vacuum
How the 4 P’s of Marketing Can Help Improve Ownership Reports

How To Score A Bigger Hotel Marketing Budget
Proven strategies to arm hoteliers during budgeting season

Don’t Drop The Ball on Big Wedding Business
5 Ways Hotel Marketers Stumble On The Way Down The Aisle

Break Down Silos, Build up Performance
Marketers, sales teams and revenue managers unite!

20 Surprising Digital Marketing Stats Every Hotel Marketer Should Know in 2019
We painstakingly compiled these updated 20 digital marketing nuggets (across all industries) to help you validate and benchmark your digital marketing efforts. You’re welcome.

Offer Thematic Destination Incentives To Drive Direct Bookings
Local demand generators are some of your strongest allies.