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Small but Mighty: 3 Strategies to Increase...
You’ve spent precious time and resources building the best hotel website, yet you’re not seeing much of an improvement in converting those lookers into bookers? Your benchmarking insights show that your hotel’s website conversion is underperforming compared to the market, but you’re unsure how to act on it? In this article, you’ll find 3 effective The post Small but Mighty: 3 Strategies to Increase Your Hotel’s Website Conversion appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Restaurant Chatbots: What Are They, Their Use...
Restaurant chatbots are playing an increasingly valuable role within hospitality, helping businesses to deliver customer service on an around-the-clock basis while saving both time and money. In this article, you can learn more about what these chatbots are, how they work, why they are used, and how they can be beneficial. Quick Menu What is The post Restaurant Chatbots: What Are They, Their Use and Benefits appeared first on Revfine.com.

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What Marketing Strategies can Hotels use to...
Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel What marketing strategies can accommodation providers use to increase direct bookings? What % of total bookings should direct bookings represent? What is the minimum that hoteliers should aim for? Our Marketing Expert Panel Daphne Beers – Owner, Your-Q Hospitality Academy Adele The post What Marketing Strategies can Hotels use to Grow Direct Bookings? appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Hotel Front Office: Learn About Tasks, Responsibilities,...
Front office hotel staff are among the most important employees in any modern property, as they are a regular point of contact for guests. In this article, you will be able to learn about what the front office department is, how it can be defined, what the key tasks and responsibilities are, and how technology The post Hotel Front Office: Learn About Tasks, Responsibilities, Roles & More appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Hotel Operations Guide: Learn How to Run...
When guests assess the quality of a hotel, they are largely going to be judging the effectiveness of hotel operations. However, these operations are made up of a number of interlinked departments, which need to deliver on their own offering, while also collaborating with other departments to provide a seamless guest experience. In this hotel The post Hotel Operations Guide: Learn How to Run Your Hotel Successfully appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Front Office Technology: The Latest Tech for...
Front office technology has seen significant development in recent years. Driven in part by the rise of COVID-19 but also by changes in technology, these changes mean that today’s front desk is different from the traditional reception office of the past. In this article, you’ll learn about exciting developments in front office technology and what The post Front Office Technology: The Latest Tech for the Reception Department appeared first on Revfine.com.

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How can Hotels Overcome Challenges around Rate...
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: Rate parity continues to pose challenges for hotel revenue managers. What are the top recommendations to resolve rate parity issues? (Question proposed by Tamie Matthews) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Pablo Torres – Hotel Consultant, TSA Solutions Nikolas Hall – Owner, The post How can Hotels Overcome Challenges around Rate Parity? appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Hospitality Definition; Clear Explanation of the Meaning...
Creating a comprehensive hospitality definition is important, because the sector itself is broad and diverse, including many different types of businesses and organisations. In this article, you can access a clear and detailed explanation of what hospitality is, what the word itself means, and how it is applied in the modern world. Quick Menu What The post Hospitality Definition; Clear Explanation of the Meaning of Hospitality appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Making Prehistoric Cave Art in Spain Was...
On a breezy summer day just outside Santander in Spain’s northern Cantabria region, a group of children and adults gather around a 12-year-old girl. She presses her hand against an outcropping of gray limestone as a woman leans in, holding a straw to her mouth. The woman exhales sharply and blows ochre pigment over the girl’s hand. As the girl steps back to admire the outline her hand left on the rock, an eager eight-year-old boy walks up, cracking...

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How to Eat Like an Anglo-Saxon King
Judging by the typical show at Medieval Times or a Renaissance Fair, one might think that knights and kings during the Middle Ages dined exclusively on large hunks of animal flesh. A new study presents compelling evidence, however, that before the Vikings swept through Europe, most people ate very little meat at all. “We generally assumed that rich people at least in the Middle Ages had these very rich diets, and that was presumably one of the ways a...

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The Real Women Behind Art’s Masterpieces
In Atlas Obscura’s Q&A series She Was There, we talk to female scholars who are writing long-forgotten women back into history. It was 1991 and Sue Tilley was heading to her second job. When she arrived at the unassuming, brown brick townhouse in London, she said hello to her employer and began to strip. For five years, Tilley posed for British painter ​​Lucian Freud, who completed four canvases featuring her naked, curvy form. In recent years, those paintings have...

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Dunure Castle in Ayr, Scotland
The name Dunure is said to have come from the Celtic for “fort of the yew tree.” The site dates from the late 13th century, the earliest charter for the lands is dated 1256.  The current remains of Dunure Castle date from the 15th and 16th centuries. One tradition has it that the castle was built by the Danes, while another claims that the MacKinnons took the castle from Alexander III as a reward for their valor during the Battle...

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Cementerio de Sayulita in Sayulita, Mexico
This serene, beautiful cemetery is a must-see for visitors to Sayulita, Mexico, near Puerto Vallarta.  The cemetery is nestled on a hillside under majestic trees, just steps from the ocean. The ornate, well-tended graves are colorful and stunning, often with photographs of the deceased, flower arrangements, candles, and even balloons on the graves of young children. Next to the cemetery, a beautiful beach awaits, with crowds much smaller than beaches in town. Playa de los Muertos (the beach of...

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Thousla Cross in Rushen, Isle of...
The Isle of Man has seen its fair share of shipwrecks, with over 1,126 recorded within Manx territorial waters just 12 miles offshore of the island. One which is rather significant to the Manx people of the Isle of Man is located on the southeastern tip of the island near the Calf of Man Islands. It was here, on April 8, 1858, that a number of brave locals came to the rescue of a French Schooner vessel Jeune St Charles. On...

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Pricing Personalization & the Future of Hospitality
Pricing personalization allows hotels to move towards total profit optimization by combining the power of the guest profiles in your CRM with revenue management forecasting to deliver the right price to the right guest at the right time during the guest journey. Guests Have Increased Expectations for Personalization Personalization is an evolving topic within the The post Pricing Personalization & the Future of Hospitality appeared first on Revfine.com.

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