Recently, TripAdvisor notified users of a change in its security settings that does not affect the Business Listings traffic but that may interrupt its tracking in Google Analytics. All of the websites that do not use the HTTPS protocol shall stop registering referral traffic on TripAdvisor through Google Analytics. At Mirai, we have detected that…
The potential sales sources of Booking.com may be classified in the following way: Not all of these booking origins are new sales for your hotel. Some of them just compete with other channels (including your own website) for the same clients (existing sale), thus unnecessarily increasing your distribution costs. On this post, we will focus on…
After the recent launch of instant booking (read our post “What is instant booking and how does it work?” for a complete analysis), TripAdvisor has caused a stir and now wants to compete face to face with the main OTAs. Therefore, has TripAdvisor become an OTA? Despite them saying that they are not an OTA…
Once we have analysed what instant booking is and how it compares to Business Listings and TripConnect CPC, we move on to analysing the many questions that this new product comes with. Will it be available in all markets? For now, instant booking is available only for users in the United States, Canada and United…
TripAdvisor continues to grow and, whether we like it or not, is going to become an important figure in the hotel industry. It was created as a hotel review site and it has become the number one site in that field. It grew by adding price comparison, competing with Trivago and Kayak. Now, it has…
By Pablo Delgado and César López. First of all, you must register the name of your hotel. It’s very simple… (if you’ve already registered the name of your hotel) Request to do so here: https://services.google.com/inquiry/aw_tmcomplaint?hl=enn Pay attention to the following: Fill out the form in the name of the owner of the trademark or in…
If there is a guaranteed way when it comes to not only getting more fans but building on the loyalty of your hotel’s community on facebook at the same time, it is with competitions and raffles. It is recommended to use an application that requires the user to click on “I like” to participate. There…
Facebook, the world’s largest social network with more than 750 million users, has become the centre of attention for many hoteliers that see a great opportunity for their hotel to appear on this resource. Although in the past it was not taken advantage of, the hoteliers now see it as a must. Just being on…
We should not forget that, above all, we buy and sell experiences. Sometimes companies suffer what they call “marketing myopia,” a term used to refer to the mistake of defining our market in terms of the product, instead of the necessity that said product fulfills… “Nobody wants a ¼ inch drill…what everybody wants are ¼…
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