For any accommodation provider, large or small, it is now practically impossible to ignore the internet as a distribution and marketing channel. Competition is replete and hotels with the best marketing and distribution reach dominate. Here’s an article that serves as a great navigator for hoteliers to run successful online marketing campaign.

Unfortunately, many hoteliers are content with simply having a web site as the sum-total of their Internet marketing effort. These same people wonder why their fair-share of reservation production is still eluding them. Many hoteliers wonder what more they can do to drive business from the Internet. For the record, just having a web site is not nearly enough.

Even a perfectly designed web site will benefit from a promotional effort to produce business. Promoting your hotel online should be a high priority for every hotel, large and small. The payback is quick and the potential upside is big, Internet marketing makes sense for every hotel.

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