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How to have a hotel website that drives revenue

By magenet 12 hours ago

Creating a website where travellers can reach you directly is a great step in generating extra revenue for your hotel. However, to really be successful in meeting today’s guest expectations you need to pay particular attention to optimising every element of your website.

Users expect simple yet comprehensive, elegant, and intuitive websites that enable them to find the information they’re looking for. At the same time hoteliers need to have a website that drives significant business results by operating like a real ecommerce website.

This is tied to the fact that a hotel is so much more than rooms and beds – in 2022 your hotel and everything in it is a product that can be made profitable. Your website can help you unlock this revenue if it’s professional, attractive, and fully integrated. There’s a LOT that goes into accomplishing this but it doesn’t have to be as complicated as

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Blinken ends Covid quarantine, will head to Europe

By magenet 12 hours ago

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday ended a weeklong quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19 and will travel to Europe this weekend, the State Department announced.

The top US diplomat will leave Saturday for Berlin where he will take part in a meeting of NATO foreign ministers who will discuss ways to support Ukraine as it counters a Russian invasion.

He will continue Sunday to Paris for a meeting of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council, an initiative by the Western powers to set standards in the face of China’s rapid advances.

Blinken on May 4 tested positive for Covid-19, days after joining more than 2,000 guests at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in a packed Washington ballroom.

He has since worked remotely but was forced to cancel other travel, with State Department number three Victoria Nuland replacing him at a meeting in Morocco on defeating the

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How To Make Your Hotel a Workation Destination • WebRezPro

By magenet 13 hours ago

Traveling for work is nothing new. But since the pandemic, the ubiquitous business trip has seen a plot twist. With more people than ever engaged in remote work, many are enjoying the advantage of working literally anywhere that has wifi. That has thousands of guests combining work with travel in pursuit of new experiences and fresh surroundings in what’s been coined a workation. While your hotel may already have work desks and coffee in every room, is it enough to attract workationers over the competition? We collected ideas from hotels around the world to inspire you, from in-room must-haves to onsite essentials. Using our marketing tips, it won’t be long before workationers flock to your hotel.

Workation Trends

There are two types of workations: those that begin with a business purpose—such as a conference, meeting, or sales trip—and incorporate or extend into a vacation (traditionally known as bleisure travel) versus

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How Long Will It Take The Travel Industry To Recover? | 2022

By magenet 14 hours ago

We’ve heard all about how COVID-19 has caused the travel industry to take a nosedive and plummet into the water so to speak. You only have to take a trip to see the effects of it first-hand. 

From resorts shut down due to the lack of tourists, to a staff shortage in the travel sector, to countries opening and closing their borders as quickly as a swinging door.

Travel Industry

So when will we see the back of pandemic-affected travel?

Global Data has done the research and concludes that by 2025, it will be “COVID-who?” when you venture off to any destination. That might seem far away, but, although the travel industry can crash in a matter of weeks, as we’ve all seen ourselves, rebuilding it takes time.

Growth takes money, people, and time, and as of 2025, the travel industry looks likely to reach 101% of the pre-pandemic levels

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