Guests are becoming willing to book directly from hotel websites and social media pages. Due to the high use of gadgets which includes mobile devices, tablets, laptops, etc. Guests now prefer to do their searches online before booking a room. These searches usually take them to hotel websites, and if the hotels are doing their marketing right, they will be getting more direct bookings daily. Direct bookings are more beneficial to hotels compared to bookings from OTAs. This is because OTAs will usually charge high commissions, therefore, decreasing the revenue of the hotel. 

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This article will discuss some of the smart tips on how to get guests to book directly from your hotel.

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The importance of a hotel booking engine can no longer be overlooked. No wonder even small hotels have started investing in a booking engine. With a booking engine integrated into your hotel website and social media pages, you can accept bookings any time and from anywhere. Guests can book their rooms at their own convenient time. You also can accept payment on your website in any currency your guests want to pay with and in any language, they prefer doing their bookings with. 

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This article will highlight some features of a good hotel booking engine that you may consider if you haven’t got one.

It is the right time for small hotels to embrace all the things that technology has to offer. Some hoteliers who manage small hotels may think that hotel reservation software will complicate their tasks. This is not the case but rather a cloud-based hotel reservation software will simplify tasks and make the life of hoteliers easier. Investing in a good cloud-based hotel reservation software will help you start from your website, and provide your guests with an amazing experience when booking your room, and during the check-in and check-out. Let’s discuss some of the reasons why small hotels need cloud-based hotel reservation software.

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These days more and more hotels are springing up. Hotels try their best daily to fill their rooms and make more profit. Due to there are now more options when it comes to hotels, hoteliers now try their best to offer excellent customer service and satisfy their guests. Here, we listed down some of the hotel booking trends in 2019 that every hotelier should know.

Nowadays, most hotels have their hotel website and social media pages, allowing the installation of booking engines in these hotel websites and social media pages. These have given hoteliers more confidence to promote and market their hotels to their guests while offering them some incentives in the process to convince them to book directly from their website. Although there are advantages of occupying your rooms vacancies through online travel agents (OTAs), there are also benefits of direct booking. Below we list some of the benefits of hotel direct bookings. 

Gone are those days when bookings were made at the hotel front desk. Today, almost all travel planning processes are happening online from finding accommodation to booking.

In recent years, much focus has been put by hoteliers around the world in searching and implementing a direct booking strategy that works for their businesses. However, we know for decades, the hotel has been reliant on the help of the Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) since the emergence of Expedia in 1996, thus, what have driven hotels to be seemingly steering in the opposite direction?

As a Malaysian hotelier, when deciding on which Hotel Reservation Software to use for your hotel, there are certain features to look out for in the software. Currently, hotel software providers are trying their best to integrate all the necessary features hoteliers need in their software.

In basic terms, hotel reservation software is an application on hotel sites and social media pages that accept and process direct online bookings. With regards to hotel software, hotels frequently choose complicated software that doesn't satisfy their essential requirements.

What is hotel booking software?

Hotel booking software is a software application where the guest is allowed to create bookings or make reservations online for themselves or on behalf of others. In this article, we summarized the main functions of hotel booking software and talk about other additional features that you should look into when you choose a booking engine for your hotel.

Hotel booking software is not specific to hotel websites only, in fact, it could be installed on other platforms too, such as Facebook and Blogspot.