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How long can a guest stay at a hotel and what’s the minimum stay?
How long can a guest stay at a hotel? There’s a range of accommodations available to meet different travelers’ needs, and how long guests can lodge at each type of accommodation...
Everything you need to know about PSD2 and Mews
Every so often, a new piece of legislation comes along that causes headaches and restless nights for businesses. You probably remember the endless...
The Metrics that Matter | Download the free report
Every hotel generates a wealth of data. A veritable ocean of it, in fact. But how do you know what the most important, relevant metrics are for your...
March’s new Mews integrations
A connected ecosystem is much stronger than one that stands on its own. That’s why Mews continues to seek out the best solutions in hospitality tech...
What are the advantages of transient business and how do you attract it?
What is transient business? Hotel business can be classified into group and non-group travel, and transient business lies under the non-group travel...
Options are seed investments: our approach to employee ownership
For a long time, as a Founder, I struggled what to think of options. For the first few years, while Mews struggled and ground out growth, I spent...
What went wrong at the Hotel California?
Hotel California is a great song. We all know it, we all love it. However, it doesn’t exactly paint the hotel industry in a good light. The poor...
Embracing blended living: how software is changing the work/life balance
Technology is leading a generational mindset change about how we compartmentalize our lives. Mews founder, Richard Valtr, considers the implication...
How to increase revenue with day use hotel rooms
There are two ways of looking at the world: binary thinking and spectrum thinking. The binary on/off, yes/no mindset is comforting because it’s easy...
How to effectively manage your hotel inventory
Managing the hotel inventory effectively is one of the key strategies to maximizing revenue in the hospitality industry. Only by controlling and...
Women in tech | Mews CMO, Leah Anathan, on bridging the gender gap
This year’s International Women’s Day falls on Monday the 8th of March, and the theme is #ChooseToChallenge. We caught up with Leah Anathan, CMO...
Learn or die: tools and tips for proactive learning
This article originally appeared on the Mews Developers blog. At work, do you need to be a stronger weightlifter to outdo more senior guys? Not...
Government hospitality grants: a round-up of digitalization funding
Given the unprecedented disruption of Covid-19, many governments have set up special programs or grants to help out beleaguered businesses. One of...
6 advantages of using a central reservation system (CRS)
What are the advantages of using a central reservation system? There are plenty of advantages to using a CRS that a hotelier can benefit from. The...
Our vision to reimagine the future of guest experiences
It’s our unshakable belief that there's always a better way. A better way for guests to book and interact with products and services. A better way...
What are the differences between yield management and revenue management?
What is revenue and yield management? Revenue management is the practice of predicting or anticipating customer behaviour, and then optimizing...
What are the differences between CRS and GDS in the hotel industry?
What is CRS and GDS? The primary function of a GDS is to assist travel agents who are looking for hotels that satisfy certain criteria. These...
The 15 places we’d most like to visit in 2021
Let’s face it: it hasn’t exactly been a brilliant last 12 months. But while the world has changed, our innate desire to travel remains undiminished....
8 advantages of self service kiosks for hotels
What are the advantages of self service check-in/out Kiosks? Better use of hotel resources To gain a customer’s loyalty, it’s vital to provide...
What are the advantages and disadvantages of yield management in hotels?
What are the advantages of yield management in hotels? From increased revenue to understanding booking patterns, decreased errors and an increased...
The 7 most important KPIs for hotel industry
What is the meaning of KPI? A key performance indicator is a measurable value that illustrates how an organization or company is doing in relation to...
Local SEO for hotels: how to optimize for Google’s hotel map in 2021
When a traveler is researching which hotel to stay at, one of their first ports of call is to Google: “hotel in [destination]”.
What is an overbooking strategy in hotels and what are its advantages?
What is a hotel overbooking strategy? Overbooking occurs when a customers book more rooms than the actual number available in a hotel. The hotel...
Mews product principles: explaining the logic behind our platform
As software moves from on-premises to cloud, it's more and more important to understand not only what its current features are, but how it’s going to...
Hotel PMS integration strategies: embracing a connected future
It’s rare to get so many property management system leaders in the same conversation, and ROOMDEX’s hotel Integration Strategies webinar was lively,...
Hotel Reopening Diaries: EMA House
While COVID-19 put much of the world on hold, EMA House Hotel Suites and Serviced Apartments in Zurich saw it as an opportunity to move their...
The best reads of 2020
Although 2020 was a year to forget for many reasons, there are plenty of important learnings we can take from it. We looked through the data and...
5 hotel lobby design tips and why you should rethink yours
Ask someone to shut their eyes and describe the typical hotel lobby design, and you’ll usually get the same answer: a soulless, empty space, polished...
Top 10 benefits and advantages of a hotel management system
What are the advantages of using a hotel management system? In case you still need convincing, here are ten advantages of implementing a modern hotel...
Our 2020 in numbers | Mews year in review
2020 isn’t likely to go down as one of our favourite numbers. It’s been a difficult year for everyone in hospitality, but despite the hardships we’ve...
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