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International travel is now fully-fledged. Anyone can travel anywhere, anytime they like.

As guests employ luxury hotel-like design features in their own homes, some hotels are also adopting a boutique, home-style approach to hotel design for a market seeking character and comfort. Accomnews spoke exclusively with award-winning hotel and interior design company, Dreamtime Australia Design, about how hotels are steering away from the stereotypical hotel room look.

To discover more about virtual technology and the ways hotels can, and are, using it to improve their business results, SiteMinder’s Dean Elphick spoke to Marc Charette of Work Pics.

Every hotelier knows how important online reviews are, and how damaging they can be if they’re unfavourable.

Hotel meetings and events are a great way to boost revenue at your property and attract a constant stream of professionals and business travellers. Having or creating a function space at your hotel allows you to cater for a whole range of different purposes and visitors, which will usually translate into extra bookings in the hotel itself. This means you’re …

It’s common knowledge that hotels are at a disadvantage if they aren’t engaging online travel agents to boost their distribution and sell rooms.

There are very few factors that are more important today than the online reputation of your hotel. Without an established and positive reputation on the web, where most travellers are doing their trip research and booking, your hotel won’t capture the amount of reservations you need to run a successful business.

How will it be delivered to your complex? FTTP, FTTN, FTTPD...what does it all even mean?

The Weatherdon Project scholarship is awarded each year to a hospitality student of the International College of Management. Presented by the Weatherdon Corporation in association with the International College of Management, Sydney (ICMS), the scholarship is a testimony to innovation in the hospitality industry. This year it was presented to Norwegian student, Marius Lie. Mr Lie came up with the …

Cross channel marketing. Those three words strike fear into the hearts of many accommodation providers. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Cross channel marketing isn’t as complicated as it sounds. Once you’ve got your head around the concept, it’s just a matter of harnessing the opportunities cross channel marketing provides to increase your customer base and loyalty to …