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Since the start of the pandemic, it’s clear that city-based hoteliers have been hit hardest, fuelled by a significant drop in corporate travel along with largescale conferences and events moving online. Indeed, during the recent (virtual) Annual Hotel Conference, STR highlighted that occupancy levels for the week ending […]

Competition has never been higher in France’s capital. According to TripAdvisor, visitors now have the choice of over 2,300 hotels, with over 100 5-star and nearly 500 4-star properties alone. The Parisian market appears to be recovering well after the events of 2015/2016 with ever-increasing tourist numbers and […]

Of course, 2018 was not without it’s challenges and 2017 was always going to be a tough act to follow, but by most accounts last year was received positively for the hospitality industry in Europe. The results across our European client-base were strong and despite some uncertainty over […]

2017 saw the European tourism market exceed everyone’s expectations, with arrivals growing an impressive 8% to reach 671 million international visits, despite challenging market conditions. This buoyant growth is one of the reasons that we chose to open our European office in Marbella last month. Committed to helping […]

Last year we looked at MENA’s digital disruption by numbers and, with Arabian Travel Market 2018 fast approaching, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at the digital performance of Dubai 5 star hotels using data from our free hotel benchmarking service, 80 DAYS Benchmark. […]

Global smartphone usage topped 2.3bn in 2017. Based on an estimated world population of 7.6bn, that’s over 1 in 3 people who now own one. Usage figures continue to grow steadily, over a decade after the release of the original iPhone, as this chart showing smartphone users (in […]

Is my hotel website conversion good? How much traffic should my website be receiving? What are the top converting international markets? Who should I be targeting with my online advertising to achieve the highest ROI? What are the industry averages? We used our free hotel benchmarking product, 80 DAYS […]