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		<title>Increasing Room Reservations through your Hotel Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>weena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have heard time and again of the many advantages and ways of launching an Internet marketing campaign when it comes to promoting your business. There is the tried and tested online newsletter, the bulletin board/forum discussions,  the email blast (now notoriously called spam), and of course the creation of your own corporate website.
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Booking Engine and Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Ong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve got a hotel, you need a website.  And you’ve already got a website, you need a simple online booking engine that delivers  you more direct bookings and more satisfied guests.
Having an online booking engine on your  website may cost you. But at DirectWithHotels, we actually do it for free. Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Hotel and CMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Ong</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[booking engine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, having a simple reservation system online is just not enough…
You need a booking engine that’s hooked up to various visitors, covering various target markets and various booking possibilities. And you need to realize that your direct reservations will gain more bookings if you promote your hotel online, through a host of leading online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel Booking Solutions: Relevant Tool for Rough Times Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hotel Internet marketing presents a very efficient means for accommodation providers to sell directly to consumers. Considering that hotels are among the cleverest direct marketers across all industries, you would expect that they will be ahead of the pack when it comes to cutting edge web marketing trends. But sadly, a big number of hoteliers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel Internet Marketing Buoys Up Hoteliers in Down Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s global economic situation is in a downward trend. Hoteliers are starting to feel the pinch as the hospitality industry &#8212; just like other major business activities &#8212; takes a beating from a lackluster economic environment. To cope with current conditions, hoteliers need to modify or reconsider their marketing game plan. Sticking to tried-and-tested marketing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make a Better Connection with Online Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gone are the days when guests have to call their travel agents or wait in line in the lobby to get to you. The usual amount of time that you spend on the phone negotiating holiday deals with institutional clients is increasingly getting out of the question as well. Thanks to the mobility-driven Internet technology, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Hotel Web Design Tips for a More User-Friendly Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your website is your link to the world. It is the frontline of for your hotel online booking system. As such, your hotel web design should be one that is attractive and convenient for your online visitors.
As more and more hotels make their presence felt in cyberspace, your website becomes not just a tool that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Reasons Why You Need an Online Booking Engine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Give your customers the power to reserve their rooms anytime and anywhere with just a few clicks on your own website. But that is just part of the many advantages of having an online booking engine. The following are ten reasons why you need to integrate direct reservations in your website. So read on.
1. Simplify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engine Marketing: Crucial Tool For Hotel Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more consumers now prefer to make direct online hotel reservation. But this is just one part of the big picture. Industry experts estimate that over 60% of potential clients click on organic search engine results while the rest choose paid search listings. This can only mean that effective search engine marketing is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increase RevPAR Via Direct Online Booking Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resource Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increasing RevPAR]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[online hotel bookings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasing revenue per available room (RevPAR) through direct online booking solutions is steadily becoming a standard in the hotel industry. Combined with effective Internet marketing, online hotel reservation software is proving to be an essential part of all measures aimed at reducing costs and increasing profitability of hotels.
With the US credit crunch and the global [...]]]></description>
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