Upgrades and Extras in the Accommodation Industry

Check out the new GuestDiary.com Promotional Video Advert!

When we speak about promotions, we don’t mean you have to discount your rates. In fact, promotions are used to try boost direct bookings and increase revenue flow at your property.

Have a read through some easy and effective ways to create some simple promotions.

So we know that most hotels dont get excited about paying for advertising (if they did FaceBook and Google would be the obvious go to tools), so what about (mainly) free advertising tools?

Housekeeping Module. GuestDiary offers some simple Housekeeping Tools and this 4 minute video shows you how to use them;

We have seen international travellers return from as early as Q2 which was great, and the high – mid season lasting right up to the end of October. Let’s not take our foot of the pedal now, spend this time planning your Winter Packages, Promotions and if you stay open over Christmas, have your Christmas Residential Packages online and selling.

Promotion Codes are common in the Online Booking industry and have a multitude of uses. One is to track how your Sales and Marketing is performing, the other is to offer a rate or discount to specific groups of people ie Local Businesses, Corporate Guests, Friends and Family etc

Closing Confusion!

Yep its confusing, and we have tried to simplify it, but properties appear to have many different approaches when wanting to stop selling ie:

Closing of Rate Plans (ie B&B)

Closing of Rooms (ie Room 207 and 208)

Closing of OTA's (ie Booking.com etc)

With this short video we hope to clear up a common point of confusion.

Tucked away near the bottom of the letfhand menu in GuestDiary is 'Charts'. Rarely visited by our customers there is a wealth of useful information in here that help you make better decisions when deciding what rates, rooms and rateplans to sell. Take a look a this video then visit your own 'Charts' page to see what you can interpret.

Just one supplier for the Channel Manager, Website, Booking Engine and PMS? Is that really possible? Yes it is, in fact we can now go one further with a connection to leading EPOS Suppliers CBE's CASIO EPOS Platform, allowing Bar and Restaurant charges to go directly onto the guests bills/invoices in GuestDiary.