TODAY: Brexit uncertainty to stall growth, Room Booking Module: Google incorporates room photos to Hotel Ads results and Budget Season – What You Need to Consider for Your 2019 Hotel Tech Stack.

Brexit uncertainty to stall growth
Thursday, 27th September 2018

Hotel trading growth is set to flatten in the year ahead due to economic uncertainty, weak business travel demand and an influx of new rooms scheduled to open across the country.

These form part of the findings of PwC’s Hotels Forecast 2019. The analysis found that the outlook for London has levelled out with year-on-year occupancy growth of only 0.1% and a marginal fall of -0.5% forecast for 2019, which will see occupancy levels drop one percentage point to 81% in 2019 >>

Hilton expands into the all-inclusive space
27 Sep 2018 : Hilton is announcing its strategic alliance with Playa Hotels & Resorts, marking a landmark expansion of the hospitality company’s all-inclusive resort portfolio >>

International City Trips - A Success Story
27 Sep 2018 : City trips worldwide grew four times as fast as total international holiday market over past 10 years and city breaks overtake Sun&Beach holidays >>

IHG to bring Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants to Bangkok
27 Sep 2018 : IHG has signed a management agreement with Siam Sindhorn to debut the leading boutique hotel brand, Kimpton® Hotels & Restaurants, in Bangkok — the first Kimpton hotel in Thailand, and second across the South East Asia and Korea region >>

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Room Booking Module: Google incorporates room photos to Hotel Ads results
Thursday, 27th September 2018

The channels advertised on Google Hotel Ads (among them the hotel’s direct channel) can now show, as well as their prices, photos of the different published rooms.

Undoubtedly, its intention is to continue presenting more information and options to the user in order to facilitate their decision-making process. Images are a fundamental element to choose one room over another, thus facilitating the sale of products of a higher quality and, consequently, a higher price >>

2019 Budgeting Trends Whitepaper
It is the time to analyze digital marketing initiatives for next year and plan for trends that may arise throughout the year and when constructing your budget, think about upgrades your property needs to make regarding digital technology and marketing strategy >>

When It Comes to CX You Have to Live, Eat, and Breathe the Customer
What does customer experience (CX) mean to you? Depending on the industry you work in it could be something different, but the essence of customer experience is really quite simple across the board >>

Budget Season – What You Need to Consider for Your 2019 Hotel Tech Stack
It’s officially budget season, and the growing list of priorities and considerations is currently top of mind when planning for a successful 2019, and I know from my own experience that with so many investment options out there, it’s difficult to really know what will bring the most success in 2019 >>