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Running a hotel isn’t easy. You have guests to look after, rooms and grounds to maintain, marketing to do, budgets to manage, staff to pay… the list goes on. This is made harder because — unless you’re a large hotel chain — you’re probably keeping track of all of this using pen and paper, and an Excel spreadsheet …

No one likes a negative review. However, even with the best of intentions and efforts, you may still receive a negative review for your business. Many travelers rely on sites like Tripadvisor, Expedia or Yelp in order to decide which hotel to use on their next vacation. And unfortunately, negative reviews are more noticeable than positi…

Time is finite. We can’t order more time. So it’s annoying when you feel like you’ve wasted it. Every job I’ve had I found that there were things I had to do over and over again. When I left the office I couldn’t help feeling I’d lost the day. It’s the same for people running independent hotels and bed and breakfasts. Unlike the global …

Have you been thinking of starting your tour operator business? This guide may help you a lot. Here, I’ll detail a step-by-step process for people who would like to hop on the process of planning a travel business and help others have great travel experiences. Now, let’s review how you can start your business in this industry from scratch…

Booking engines have changed the hotel industry. They’ve allowed smaller and independent hotels to have a global presence, and they have increased the competition among hotels on all levels regarding price and customer reviews. You might be thinking that you don’t need a booking widget. Why fix what isn’t broken? Booking widgets are be…

In the past decade more and more people started to think about the benefits of sustainability and about ways to protect the environment. This is a great thing because more and more people are interested in protecting our planet, at the same time, this makes our life and experiences, in general, a lot more meaningful. For a lot of people…