Hospitality Industry Trends - Internet

Search Engines – they’re where consumers continually go to get their questions answered. These people utilize search engines like Google, Yahoo!, or Bing, type in their queries, and expect to see results that are relevant to what they are looking for. - More

Back in December 2003, Smith Travel Research published a much discussed article titled, 'The Billion Dollar Leak - The Impact of The Merchant Model on US Hotel Profits.' In this article the authors attempted to quantify the financial impact of third party sites on U.S. hotel industry room revenues and profits. To describe this loss, they coined ... - More

Fifth Paper in Series is Designed to Enhance Sales and Marketing Performance for Brands Within the Hospitality and Tourism Sectors - More

Lodging Interactive, a leading interactive marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry and the publisher of the free Chatter Guard Monthly Benchmark Monitor Report has released its June 2010 report. - More

Viral marketing and social networking have arrived on the scene after a long, strange trip indeed. As David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan explain in their new book, the Grateful Dead were much more than a bunch of rock-and-roll geniuses; they were pioneers of the digital age marketing landscape. - More

PARSIPPANY, NJ , August 17, 2010 - CoMMingle by Lodging Interactive, an award winning leading interactive and social media marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry, today announced that it is offering its Social Media Engagement Report at no cost to the first 200 hotels that sign up on its website. The CoMMingle Social Media Engagemen... - More

Most of us are involved with Social Media in some fashion, trying to take our Brand message to the airwaves: Facebook, You Tube, Twitter and the like. It can be daunting, as we trumpet our message, build that relationship with our Customer and promote our product/service integrity and value. Our effort is usually top-down, ensuring that the m... - More

Whoa, put a hold on the gazpacho, turn off the fryolator, don’t ring up that espresso – talk about the ultimate Restaurant Review from the New York City Health Department. - More

IN-DEPTH: Interview with Gregg Brockway, CEO, Tripit - More

IN-DEPTH: Interview with Anil Aggarwal, CEO of Milestone Internet Marketing - More