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Hotel eMarketer

Hotel eMarketer features an insider look and best practices from the world of hotel / hospitality internet marketing. Overs a variety of topics related ebusiness, ecommerce, online markting, internet marketing and web strategy.

Rethinking Hotel Guest Satisfaction and Hotel Website Analytics - Fri, 02 Jul 2010
I want to share two very simple but powerful ideas that could radically transform the way the hotel industry utilizes measures like the hotel guest satisfaction index, web analytics, etc. 1. Taking ‘measurement’ beyond just ...

The link between Facebook, Organ Donation and Boiling Frogs - Sat, 22 May 2010
Now that I have your attention with my intriguing post title, allow me to explain just what I mean… and boiling frogs and organ donation do indeed feature in this little blog post! All the recent ...

Pivot – Perhaps the early future of web and media browsers - Thu, 04 Mar 2010
(This was too good not to share!) Microsoft seems to have plenty of nifty innovations up its sleeve! In this new video, Gary Flake (Technical Fellow at Microsoft, and the founder and director of Live ...

Hotel Internet Marketing by 2013 – Are we on Track? - Mon, 01 Mar 2010
I came across a piece I’d written about 17-18 months ago on the future of hotel internet marketing. The article talked about 5 broad tech trends that I thought would radically alter the way we ...

Augmented Reality Maps make their debut - Thu, 18 Feb 2010
After Blaise Aguera y Arcas offered a tantalizing peek at the world of Microsoft PhotoSynth a couple of years ago, he recently made a return to TED to demo the latest incredible innovation in mapping. ...

Younghotelier.com: A Passion for People!

Started in 2007, this site features video interviews with hoteliers, hotel concepts and hotelier humor with an emphasis on video content.

Hotel Public Relations – Marketing Against External Factors like the BP Oil Spill - Sat, 19 Jun 2010
With the BP oil spill in mind, how can hotels effectively market themselves amidst factors beyond their control? By Jennifer Rodrigues, TravelInk’d The BP oil spill has dominated headlines lately for many good reasons. It is the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States; it has caused untold ecological destruction to wetlands, shorelines, [...]

Dealing with the Downturn - Thu, 06 May 2010
A verdict comes in on how hotels handled the demand conditions caused by the recession By Jennifer Rodrigues, TravelInk’d The Cornell Center for Hospitality Research issued a report last week that indicated that though discounting was the most prevalent tactic used to offset the demand-killing effects of the recession, hotels were unlikely to repeat this strategy. [...]

Hotel Stories – Exceeding Expectations with Exceptional Service - Tue, 20 Apr 2010
Exceeding Expectations every day – every stay, by Fritz Gubler Here is Fritz’s latest Young Hotelier exclusive…hotel stories about exceptional service that inspire! As is the norm with Fritz, he’s also been busy publishing new books for eager hoteliers to benefit from. His latest, which he co-authored, is called ‘The Salt Book’. The Salt Book is [...]

Hotel Marketing and Public Relations Myth Busters - Tue, 20 Apr 2010
Mythbusters, TravelInk’d Style By Jennifer Rodrigues, TravelInk’d A confession: I engage in plenty of guilty pleasures. Among the cheaper ones (that is, discounting my yearning for Miu Mius and beachside mojitos) is an irrational affinity for the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters. I suppose the show’s a bit more high-concept than The Office, but it certainly doesn’t [...]

Video: Hotel School Students raise awareness about Food Wastage - Tue, 20 Apr 2010
Here’s a video sent to us by IMI Luzern hotel management school students, who are trying to raise awareness about food wastage. Video Description: Students from IMI University Centre in Switzerland take the initiative and launch the “Food Wasted Campaign 2010″. Get involved and follow the movement: “I will finish my food today” There are [...]

WebTravel2.com: Web 2.0 and Travel 2.0

Started in 2007, this blog features material on the Travel 2.0 phenomenon, Web 2.0, emarketing, ecommerce & technology in hospitality & tourism.

The Hotel Business Simulation for Hoteliers, CEOs and Students - Fri, 29 May 2009
If you’ve always dreamed of sitting at the helm of your global hotel empire…and terms like RevPAR, GOPPAR, bottom line profits and market share come easy, then perhaps it’s time you put your skills to the test! YoungHotelier.com is proud to introduce the first-ever real-time real-world business simulation for the Hotel Industry, in affiliation with [...]

Hotel Internet Marketing – Leveraging User Generated Photos and Video - Mon, 13 Apr 2009
A picture may be worth a thousand words…but most hotel PR & Marketing managers today would be at a loss for words at the plague of user generated photos out on the Internet today. Hoteliers may need to get used to the fact that competing with their ‘official’ previews of what to expect, past guests [...]

A mobile marketing story from the near future - Mon, 16 Feb 2009
Here’s a peek at the hotel guest experience in the near future. With mobile phones becoming an increasingly important marketing and CRM channel, improving technology and awareness will soon allow hotel marketers to enhance the hotel guest interaction, in a very similar way to what’s described below… Hotel Booking and Research Sam wants to [...]

How can Hotels and Restaurants use Twitter – Twitter Survey Suggestions - Mon, 09 Feb 2009
I did a quick survey recently called the Twitterati Dozen. This was basically an online�survey�with 12 questions addressed to prominent and very active Twitter users, to obtain their thoughts on Twitter use, connections, peeves, best practices and more. A big thank you to those of you who participated – the survey link was posted on [...]

Hotel Internet Marketing best practices and predictions from Bloggers and Experts - Tue, 27 Jan 2009
This year promises to be a challenging one for hoteliers. The internet offers a great source of inspiration and a superb platform for efficient marketing. Here is a collaborative document that shares the thoughts, ideas and best practices of 6 hospitality industry experts and bloggers on the key developments and recession-beating tips for 2009: This [...]