Are staycations the new vacations?
2020 certainly threw a curveball for the industry as a whole, but there was one type of hospitality that no doubt saw an unexpected boom this year. Staycations were seen by many as the safer [...]
Who is converting your traffic?
As one of the most difficult years for hotels comes to a close, many hoteliers are reviewing their budgets and wondering how to make them work even harder for them across 2021. The direct channel [...]
How Lead Times Have Changed During COVID-19
COVID-19 has had a huge and lasting impact on the hospitality industry. Gone are the days of planning a spontaneous getaway for the weekend. Instead, the booking behaviour of guests has become a much lengthier [...]
9 SEO Tips For Seasonal Pages
When your future guests are planning their breaks away around holiday seasons, make sure the information they need has the best chance to appear when they are searching for it. To make sure your landing pages are getting the visibility they deserve, read our top 9 SEO golden rules when it comes to seasonal pages.
Five Strategies to reduce cancellations in 2020
We are always striving for ways to reduce room cancellations and have seen a positive trend with total cancellations down from 20% in 2018 to 17% in 2019. Our goal is to continue to tackle this challenge in 2020 and encourage our customers to adopt our 5 best practice strategies to reduce cancellations.
An incredible uplift for Actons Hotel
Set in the vibrant harbor town of Kinsale, Actons Hotel is home to almost 80 immaculate rooms and suites – many of which overlook the scenic Kinsale Harbor. Picturesque views aside, Actons Hotel is dedicated to providing genuine guest care and is often termed as a ‘home away from home’ by their many visitors.
The death of the booking confirmation
At Avvio we believe that a hotel website’s job doesn’t stop at the point of booking confirmation. Data gathered from our AI-powered booking engine Allora shows that pre-stay returning visitors will typically amend their booking prior to arrival.
Avvio’s latest booking engine feature helps hotels reduce abandonment
Designed to deter and reduce abandonment in the guest journey, Avvio has launched a new, built-in anti-abandonment tool for our customers. Take a look at our latest booking engine feature
Avvio champions user experience with new booking engine innovations
Based on data gathered from Allora, as well as from analysis of industry trends and best practice, the front-end design and functionality of our booking engine has been enhanced to provide a better guest user experience (UX) to enable an increase in direct bookings.
Allora recognised as one of the best hotel booking engines
We’re delighted that our award-winning AI booking platform Allora, has been recognised by Boutique Hotelier as one of the top 5 booking engine solutions.