Hospitality industry has always tended to be reactive, rather than current, to changes in the economy. After all, hotels don’t create travel, they serve it. There is little hotels can do to induce people to travel. People don’t travel for the purpose of staying in hotels, they stay in our hotels because our hotels are [...]

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In the difficult year we expect 2009 to be, a well-executed Internet marketing strategy can help smart hoteliers generate incremental revenues, improve marketing ROIs, retain existing and attract more affluent travelers, and out-smart the competition.
Here at HeBS we firmly believe that a comprehensive, ROI-centric Internet marketing strategy is the hotelier’s perfect ’survival tool’ in the [...]

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Telegraph.co.uk looks ahead at this year’s travelling trends, including the best good value destinations for UK travelers, plagued by the tumbling pound.
Money talks, and it is going to have a bigger say than ever on where we travel in 2009. The tumbling pound has sharply increased the cost of holidays in many of UK’s favourite [...]

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The Air Transport Association projects U.S. airlines will carry 9% fewer travelers this holiday season than last year, as Americans postpone trips or stay closer to home.
Now in the throes of global recession, travel demand is declining for the first time since the period following the 9/11 attacks. From July to November, travelers on the [...]

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Certainly visibility is low right now, and it’s probably better to err on the side of stone-cold sobriety than blithe optimism, but I think we can count on several things in 2009. Not all of them are positive, mind you, but there can be some comfort in quantifying the pain we all know is coming.
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