Latest Contributed Articles

• What happens when performance marketing caps?
  By Martin Soler, Partner at Soler & Associates
• The keys to successfully positioning your hotel brand
  By RJ Friedlander, CEO of ReviewPro
• The datafication of hospitality: Three reasons to start looking into data science
  By Meng-Mei (Maggie) Chen, Assistant Professor at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne and Alessandro Inversini, Associate Professor in Marketing at Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne
• Digital marketing & revenue management: Powerful partners in profitability
  By Tammy Farley, President & Co-Founder, The Rainmaker Group
• Nobody told you there’d be days like these
  By Matthias Huettebraeuker, Brand Strategist
• Get off the social media merry-go-round with social commerce
  By Hilary Murphy, Associate Dean and Full Professor of Digital Marketing at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne and Alessandro Inversini, Associate Professor in Marketing at Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne
• Hotel brand building in a digital age
  By David Turnbull, Hospitality Entrepreneur , Founding Partner at Techtalk.travel
• Eleven questions for citizenM CMO Robin Chadha | Interview by Martin Soler
  By Robin Chadha,
• Yes, clicks and conversions are important, but don’t forget about brand marketing
  By Daniel E. Craig, Founder, Reknown
• Independent hotels: An action plan to win the direct booking
  By Max Starkov, Adjunct Professor NYU Tisch Center for Hospitality, Founder & Director at HEBS Digital

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Special Series

• Intelligence, Speed, And Precision – The Role Of Dynamic Revenue And Price Management In The 2020s
  By Stan van Roij, Vice President – Hospitality Solutions & Program Management at Infor
• Redefine Your Revenue Management Strategy
  By Kevin Duncan, Senior Director, Strategic Commercial Initiatives at The Rainmaker Group, a Cendyn company
• “New Times Call for New Tools”
  By Mike Chuma, VP Marketing, Enablement & Engagement at IDeaS
• The future is touchless. What future?
  By Eugene Jones, CEO at RoomOrders, Inc.
• Revenue Managers Will Need To Master Their Data In The Post-COVID World
  By Ujjwal Suri, Vice President, Global Revenue & Distribution, Fornova
• Revenue Management - How Upselling Provides Low Cost Revenue and Loyal Customers
  By Jos Schaap, CEO at ROOMDEX
• The Power of Guest Choice
  By Don DeMarinis, Senior Vice President Sales, Americas
• Access Control Technology Will Help Reopen The Doors
  By Steve Burk, Marketing Director, SALTO Systems
• Three Reasons to Implement an Upsell Program During this Disruption
  By Valyn Perini, Vice President, Partnerships and Marketing at Nor1
• Visioning The Post-COVID Era In Revenue Management
  By Chinmai Sharma, President – Americas, RateGain

Foresight and Innovation

The Hotel Yearbook is a family of publications that call upon a wide-ranging group of senior executives, analysts, consultants and opinion leaders from all over the world to ask, "What lies ahead for the global hotel industry?"

In The Hotel Yearbook - whether it is the highly respected annual edition or any of the special editions focusing on such critically important themes as technology, talent development, or the digital world - our forward-looking contributors share with you the key trends and developments that they believe could have an impact on the performance of the hotel industry in the future.

If you are working in the hotel business, the result is a comprehensive and truly fascinating compendium of trends and factors that could affect your business soon. And the new and innovative ideas that could fuel its growth in the years to come.

Woody Wade - Publisher Hotel Yearbook