An interview with Sebastian Küchler, a Swiss Hospitality Solutions consultant who shares his knowknow and expertise on implementing a smart direct booking strategy at hotels.
In this new AYHT video, Sebastian Küchler talks about the most important aspects, key steps and tools involved when implementing, optimizing and maximizing a direct hotel booking strategy. He explains the best tips and how to avoid the most common mistakes when improving a direct booking strategy.

He mentions the main systems and booking tools needed: a website and a booking engine integrated with PMS using a channel manager. He also details the meaning of online key search terms and metasearch integration as well as the best way to attract the right visitors to your website in order to convert them into direct guests. He further explains the key concept of best price available for your website, the role of OTAs in the online booking game and why both room and price level aspects should be considered in any smart direct booking strategy implementation.

He also explores the creativity challenge when designing the most suitable direct booker incentives for your guests in accordance with your own hotel model.  

QUESTIONS:
What is a direct booking strategy?
Why should a hotel have a direct booking strategy?
Why is it not a good idea for hotels to just give all sales and marketing responsibilities over to OTAs?
What tools are needed to enable direct booking?
How does META search work?
What is your focus when implementing a direct booking strategy with a hotel?
What incentives can I offer to guests without lowering the price?
What is your experience with PayPerClick advertisement?
What can we learn from OTAs?

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HotelSpider is a cloudbased online distribution platform with a deeprooted presence in the hotel technology market. We empower hospitality distribution as we imagine, develop and deploy customerdriven software solutions. Our goal is, to simplify the complex distribution landscape through our systems. Our HotelSpider Hospitality Distribution Platform includes booking engine, metasearch (Google, Trivago, Tripadvisor), central reservation system, PMS connectivity, and channel manager. Trust your Swiss specialists to optimize your online sales with an integrated and fully automated approach.
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