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Best practices 6 Jan 2025

12 small things that make a good hotel room great

12 essentials for a good hotel room The small things listed in this article are some of the most common remarks we hear from guests. How many does your hotel cater for?

Best practices 17 Dec 2024

Hotel housekeeping checklist guide for 2025

What is hotel housekeeping? Hotel housekeeping is all about creating a clean, comfortable, and visually inviting environment for your guests....

Best practices 10 Dec 2024

What is a hotel maintenance checklist and what to include?

What is a hotel maintenance checklist? Managing a hotel involves keeping track of numerous tasks, making checklists indispensable. A hotel...

Best practices 28 Nov 2024

The ultimate guide of hotel business plan

What is a hotel business plan A hotel business plan is a roadmap outlining specific goals and the strategies to achieve them. It includes financial...

Technology 22 Nov 2024

How automation drives hotel efficiency | WestCord Hotels and Flexkeeping

If you’ve ever wondered how your hotel’s operations could be smoother, faster and more efficient, you’ll enjoy the latest episode of Mews Coffee...

Best practices 18 Nov 2024

Maximizing group revenue for the holiday season: unwrap success with Mews

As the holiday season approaches, hotels should be bustling with group business, from corporate holiday events to family festivities and grandiose...

Industry trends 14 Nov 2024

10 ways to protect your hotel from phishing attempts

What are phishing attacks? Phishing is a type of cybercrime that involves tricking people into giving away sensitive data or installing malware....

Guest experience 12 Nov 2024

6 ways to improve customer service in the hospitality industry

What is customer service in the hospitality industry? Customer service in the hospitality industry is all about ensuring guests feel welcomed,...

Best practices 22 Oct 2024

The ultimate guide to hotel rules and regulations

What are hotel rules and regulations? Hotel rules and regulations are a series of guidelines that are agreed upon by the hotel and their guests. The...

Best practices 15 Oct 2024

How to increase your hotel direct bookings

What are hotel direct bookings? Direct bookings happen when a guest reserves a room directly with your hotel – whether that’s through your website,...

Technology 17 Sep 2024

7 simple ways to keep your hospitality accounts secure

How to keep your hospitality accounts secure The key to security is being proactive – don't wait until you have a potential breach to act. If you...

Guest experience 2 Sep 2024

Managing your property during busy season and big events

What is peak season? Before we get into the cure, let’s look at the diagnosis. Peak season, busy season – whatever you want to call it, most...

Industry trends 30 Aug 2024

Lessons from retail: what can hospitality learn from the retail value chain?

What is the retail value chain? The retail value chain is a series of activities or processes that a company performs to deliver a product or a...

Best practices 29 Aug 2024

4 ways to reduce plastic usage in hotels

Why is it important to reduce plastic usage in hotels? The hospitality industry produces a startling 150 million tons of single-use plastic annually...

Technology 27 Aug 2024

10 tips to get the best out of your cloud-native PMS – and 10 things to avoid

10 tips to get the best out of your cloud-native PMS This list will help you make the most of a cloud-native PMS, helping to ensure you get the...

Product 8 Aug 2024

Why two-factor authentication (2FA) is a must-have for hospitality security

Hackers in hospitality Lately, the hospitality industry has seen a worrying uptick in cyberattacks. In fact, according to the 2023 Hospitality Threat...

Best practices 8 Aug 2024

The guide to effective hotel budgeting in 2024

What is a hotel budget? A hotel budget is essentially your financial roadmap, aligning with your hotel’s strategic goals to guide how you’ll spend...

Best practices 29 Jul 2024

Five times hotels transformed their operations

1. Glampsource North Hatley: no more paper The new generation of hoteliers are lucky. They don’t know some of the painful, time-consuming processes...

Best practices 26 Jul 2024

Lessons from athletics: what can hospitality learn from the games?

No train, no gain Over 10,000 of the world’s finest athletes are competing across Paris, each of whom are among the very best in their field. This...

Revenue management 16 Jul 2024

10 hotel rack rate strategies to maximize revenue

What are rack rates in hotels? Rack rates are essentially the starting point for a hotel room’s pricing — think of it as the highest price before any...

Best practices 14 May 2024

Types of hotel staff positions and how to manage them

What are hotel staff? Hotel staff are the people responsible for running your hotel. From those responsible for daily operations, to those friendly...

Best practices 25 Apr 2024

6 ways to improve front desk operations in a hotel

What are the main front desk duties? The front desk serves is responsible for welcoming visitors, answering questions, and addressing any issues that...

Best practices 18 Apr 2024

How to reduce hotel operating costs – the very best strategies

What are hotel operating costs? Your hotel's financial health depends on managing cash inflows and outflows effectively. Operating costs are the...

Best practices 11 Apr 2024

5 types of hotel credit card scams and how to prevent them

What is a credit card scam? A hotel credit card scam occurs when someone uses a stolen or fake credit card for fraudulent activities. Usually, the...

Product 4 Apr 2024

Building better hospitality tech: a week in Sherlock Holmes' shoes

Part 1: Solo, Duo, Trio Aylin and I work together in the Connectivity tribe at Mews, where our primary focus is the connectivity of our hospitality...

Industry trends 25 Mar 2024

Mews Coffee Corner: a fun space for hospitality insights

Brewing ideas and insights This isn't just another webinar or podcast series. Mews Coffee Corner is a space where ideas percolate, opinions are...

Revenue management 5 Mar 2024

New hospitality metrics every revenue manager should track

New revenue management metrics Technology has changed not only what’s possible, but what’s measurable. A new generation of hospitality metrics has...

Best practices 4 Mar 2024

The great hospitality balancing act

Balance is a lost art. In almost every sphere of society, from politics to culture to technology, more and more people inhabit the extreme ends of...

Guest experience 1 Mar 2024

Lessons from the air: what can hospitality learn from airlines?

The utilization mindset Running a profitable airline is hard. In 2023, the industry’s net profit margin was less than three percent. This requires...

Best practices 29 Feb 2024

The benefits of late bookings in hotels

What are late bookings in the hospitality industry? Late bookings refer to reservations made a few days or even hours before check-in.These bookings...