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07/08/2010 06:05 AM
HST Impact on Hotel Operations - June 2010 Canadian Lodging Outlook
Published in conjunction with STR (Smith Travel Research) and endorsed by the Hotel Association of Canada. This publication summarizes occupancy and average room rates from major cities in Canada.

07/08/2010 06:03 AM
Canadian Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR - Week Ending July 24th, 2010
Published in conjunction with STR (Smith Travel Research) and endorsed by the Hotel Association of Canada. This publication summarizes weekly occupancy and average room rates from major cities in Canada.

07/08/2010 05:55 AM
Crafting High-Performing Promos for Email and Social Media Channels
You’ve got your OTA offers out, your auction site offers, your email offers and now your Twitter and Facebook offers. Do you know what promotions are returning the best bang for your buck? Chances are if you are offering the same thing through all the different channels you aren’t targeting users enough and could be missing out on revenue and engagement opportunities.

07/08/2010 05:52 AM
Why Choosing to Create a Custom IPhone App is the Clear Choice
Do you have a smartphone or plan to buy one in the next 90 days? If not you’re quickly becoming a minority. To accommodate the tremendous increase in users, manufacturers and providers are pumping out a dizzying array of smartphone options and hi-tech features to choose from. But, while the bevy of Blackberries, Palms, Droids and Motorolas are providing tempting eye candy for consumers, one phone still leads the pack in both adaptation and satisfaction - Apple’s iPhone.

07/08/2010 05:46 AM
EZYield.com Assists Nickelodeon Suites Resort With Increasing Revenue Potential
EZYield.com, the originator of automated online distribution management solutions for the worldwide hospitality industry, has helped the world-famous Nickelodeon Suites Resort save time and labor by streamlining its channel management efforts, slashing the time spent on tedious data input and simplifying precision yield analytics, and allowing more labor time to be dedicated to guest service.

07/08/2010 05:14 AM
How to Increase Booking Ratios
Video Interview with Pegasus’ COO Ric Leutwyler on What Hoteliers can do to Increase Booking Ratios.

07/08/2010 05:06 AM
Strong Recovery in Southeast Asia
The ASEAN Hotel Review shows that the affect of the on-going political crisis in Thailand has not significantly affected the hotel performance of the Thai coastal resorts of Hua Hin and Phuket. Conversely, the hotel market of the resort island of Bali underperforms in RevPAR growth when compared to the Indonesian destinations of Jakarta and Bandung, the West Java provincial capital. Nevertheless, Bali still records the highest actual occupancy (71 percent) and ADR (US$121) compared to the other Indonesian destinations for the first six months this year.

07/08/2010 05:02 AM
STR Reports US Hotel Performance for the Week Ending July 17 - 2010
In year-over-year measurements, the industry’s occupancy increased 7.3 percent to 71.8 percent. Average daily rate rose 1.3 percent to US$99.60. Revenue per available room increased 8.6 percent to US$71.54.

07/07/2010 10:09 PM
The Importance of a Well Optimized Website
Think about it this way: your website is just like your very own storefront – allowing you to present your business in different ways to make buyers to come inside...

07/07/2010 10:04 PM
VEM GlobalTM and ResortsandLodges.com Maximize Returns for Clients Using the Opportunities Tab in Google Adwords
Over here at VEM GlobalTM, we’re big fans of Google...