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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

Altexsoft

In April 2020, the hotel occupancy in the US dropped to its lowest level ever — the bewildering 24.5 The annual average was roughly 44 percent, which means that more than half of hotel rooms were empty during the whole year. This means a hotel is charged every time the ad is clicked and redirection occurs.

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Revenue Management Systems for Hotels: Products and Features

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With the right RMS in place, hotels and vacation rentals can optimize room pricing, enhance occupancy rates, and boost overall revenue. What is a revenue management system for hotels? Learn more about hotel revenue management in our video. Revenue management software for hotels is generally flexible.

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Smart Hotel Infrastructure: How to Adopt IoT in Hospitality

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Every now and then, a big hotel brand introduces its own take on the “hotel room of the future”. The Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning that are powering smart hotel applications are accessible to everyone bold enough to try. What is a smart hotel? IoT hospitality applications. Mobile keys.

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Hotel Rate Shopping: Using Rate Intelligence for Revenue Management

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But does it mean that hotels must get used to living in the OTAs’ shadow and be content with monstrous fees and rate parity rules? Let’s talk about the many opportunities that rate shopping might bring for a hotel. Dynamic pricing engines can be based on rules or on machine learning. Not exactly. Demand forecasting.

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Hotel Booking APIs: Wholesalers, Channel managers, and GDS

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If you want to sell/advertise hotel rooms, you inevitably stumble over these three technical pitfalls: How do you find hotel room APIs and what kind of providers are out there? How do you find hotel content? How do you map hotel room inventory? How hotel distribution works. Bonus) APIs for hotels.

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Price Forecasting: Applying Machine Learning Approaches to Electricity, Flights, Hotels, Real Estate, and Stock Pricing

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Predictive analytics requires numerous statistical techniques, such as data mining (identification of patterns in data) and machine learning. The goal of machine learning is to build systems capable of finding patterns in data, learning from it without human intervention and explicit reprogramming.

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Guide to Digitizing Hotel Upselling and Cross-Selling: Strategies and Tools

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Upselling and cross-selling provide hotel owners and managers with the ability to drive greater profit from the same guest by timely offering valuable services. This post aims at explaining the key hotel upselling and cross-selling strategies, ways to digitize them effectively, and examples of existing software serving that purpose.

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