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Industry trends (11)
Industry trends (11)
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 allows this to happen,...
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...
The importance of hotel branding and how to build an effective strategy
What is hotel branding in the hospitality industry? Hotel branding in the hospitality industry 2.0 is more than just choosing a name, logo and a key...
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,...
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...
Don't call us a PMS | Mews CEO, Matt Welle, on the changing world of..
When Bob Dylan wrote one of the world’s most memorable protest songs, he definitely wasn’t singing about hospitality technology. But he might as well...
13 reasons to choose a cloud PMS for your hotel
Back in the simpler times of 2018, a Fuel Travel survey found that 55% of hotel managers weren’t satisfied with their current property management...
How to choose the best revenue management systems for hotels
Revenue Management Systems are nothing new – they’ve been around for decades. But it’s only in the last few years, with the introduction of smart...
What does the hotel of the future look like?
Let’s allow ourselves to look beyond the near-future, beyond COVID-19, to where our industry should be aiming. So what will the next generation of...
Lessons from COVID-19: teaching hospitality during a pandemic
In a recent blog, we interviewed a group of 2020 hospitality graduates to see how the next generation of hoteliers view the state of the industry....
The next generation of hospitality: insights from the class of 2020
Hospitality stands on the cusp of change. Even before the events of the last few months, our industry was finally beginning to embrace technology en...
Track the latest coronavirus hotel data
Distilling the data In unprecedented times like these, it’s easy to feel a lack of control. Some of us may be in a position to help those battling...
How to boost your hotel TripAdvisor ranking, and other review platforms to..
Online reviews are of huge value to hotels, with 96% of travellers admitting that they find reviews important when researching a hotel. And if ever...
The Word in Hospitality podcast | Highlights from episode 1
The Word in Hospitality is a brand new hospitality podcast that encourages discussion and provides food for thought around some of the key topics...
Maintaining the art of hospitality in a post-Covid world
COVID-19 has changed many fundamental things about the way we live our lives. Some of them, like the lockdown, are only short-term, but there are...
The future of hospitality after the Coronavirus
This is the third and final follow-up blog to our Hospitality and the Coronavirus webinars, where we check in with our speakers to see how the...
Preparing for the hospitality upturn after Coronavirus
This is the second part of our follow-up to our Hospitality and the Coronavirus webinars. The situation continues to change week on week, so we...
New hospitality trends and developments after the Coronavirus
At the end of March, we hosted our first Hospitality and the Coronavirus webinar. As you know, things continue to change very quickly, so we decided...
React, respond, recover: the highlights from Siteminder’s webinar
Last week, Siteminder hosted a webinar about how hoteliers are coping with the continued fallout from COVID-19, and more importantly what can be done...
Raiders of the lost content
Ever since I entered the digital environment, content has always been at the centre of all architectural decisions and design. Remember the terms Web...
What's new with hotel door locks?
Back in the heady days of November 2017, we wrote a blog post about hotel door locks. It’s really good — you should check it out before reading this...
Hotel hacks to run a modern, profitable property
One of the perks of working for Mews is that I get to travel. Not only that, I get to see loads of different hotels: from boutique to corporate; from...
The Future of Hotel Rate Distribution: getting back on track
I commute. Not every day, but enough to ‘appreciate’ the experience of it. I commute from Whistable, Kent, to London, which — on paper — should take...
Building simplicity in: why hospitality needs the online check-out
As both hoteliers and guests there's a situation we recognise all too easily: it's the morning of departure after a pleasant stay, but the clock is...
How Fintech is Disrupting Hospitality
The hidden cost of virtual cards
Personalisation, data and AI are transforming Spanish hotels
PSD2 guide for hoteliers
A year on from GDPR mania and there’s another major piece of legislation for those operating in the EU/EEA that’s about to kick in courtesy of the...
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