Agentic AI shows great promise, but is it ready to become a real channel for booking hotels? Privacy, payments, complexity and trust are key challenges it must overcome to become a viable distribution channel....
Find out moreIn the first part I wrote about the inconvenience of receiving too many bookings for the hotel through Booking.com. Now, I’d like to talk about the 6 reasons why many hotel websites don’t get good results: 1: Investment in advertising Channels won’t grow without advertisement. Booking.com uses a big amount of the commissions it receives…
Selling too much? It sounds like a joke. There is never “too much”. Any reservation is welcome, and the more the merrier. I’d like to talk about an issue I have heard mentioned by several hotel managers, they’re worried about their excessive dependence on the high percentage of reservations that they get through Booking.com, while…
Every time a user request information regarding availability through Mirai-HotelSearch, the dates he’s introduced are recorded. These data means several millions requests and allow us to collate a very reliable demand calendar. Knowing what the historical demand has been is one of the key details that any hotelier must have to forecast for 2009 and…
Barcelona has double the hotel rooms that it had in the year 2000, just over 9 years ago. They have been increasingly steady year after year, at a rate of 10%. This spectacular increase along with its high quality and the renovation of the oldest hotels has made hotel offer in Barcelona the best in…
It’s unavoidable: in Internet, your hotel will be well reviewed by users in some website. How do you go about these reviews, both positive and negative, that are published on your website or in booking sites? Nowadays, online travellers’ communities are multiplying and the hotel’s transparency is very important for users to trust it when…
