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The Real Price of Rate Disparity: How OTA Undercutting is Inflating Your Advertising Costs

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  • 4 March 2025
🏨 In a study tracking over 27 million CPC impressions, hotels allowing OTAs to undercut direct rates paid 47% more per click for their own brand name. Rate parity strategies still resulted in a nearly 36% CPC increase. This competitive bidding drives up marketing costs and diverts funds from other guest services. OTAs are not the villain; they help fill rooms and offer broad exposure. However, the key for hotels is to maintain rate integrity, ensuring the best prices on their own websites and fostering direct guest relationships. Industry trends indicate by 2030, direct bookings may surpass OTA reservations, highlighting the importance of prioritizing direct rate attractiveness for future business sustainability.
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See How XR is Driving Efficiency, Training and Customer Engagement at MURTEC

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  • 4 March 2025
🎮 At MURTEC (March 10-12, Caesar’s Forum, Las Vegas), Magicgate presents XR solutions targeting restaurant challenges. Offerings include VR Training, AR Remote Support, AR Data Visualization, AR-Activated Marketing, and Immersive Haptic Devices. MURTEC 2025 spotlights industry innovations, networking, and education for QSR and full-service segments. For demos, contact Skip Kimpel at [email protected] or 954-257-8252.
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Sabre Hospitality Introduces SynXis Pay to Improve Payment Experience and Simplify Transactions for Hoteliers

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  • 4 March 2025
📱 Hotel Phone App, LLC, founded in March 2024, released HOTEL PHONE APP™ for Apple and Google Play stores. The app transforms cell phones into mobile guest room phones via QR codes. Doug Killion, the app developer, states it modernizes hotel phone systems and cuts costs by eliminating traditional push button phones and their monthly line expenses. PBX, the old hotel phone technology, dates back to the 1930s. The app is subscription-based, starting at $3 per guest room per month, significantly cheaper than the typical $10-20 monthly PBX/VOIP service charges, plus around $5 in fees. Hotels can trial the app for free and phase its deployment. Killion envisions a future of cellular and internet-based hotel communication integrated with cloud software, voice recognition, and AI.
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DerbySoft Acquires AI Automation Platform, Arise, Expanding Travel Agent–Hotel Collaboration

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  • 4 March 2025
📱 Hotel Phone App, LLC founded in March of 2024, launched HOTEL PHONE APP™ available on Apple and Google Play App Stores for hotel guests to transform their cell phones into mobile guest room phones. Doug Killion, the app's developer, aims to modernize hotel phone systems and cut costs, citing monthly savings from removing traditional room phones. Subscription to HOTEL PHONE APP™ starts at $3 per room per month, a reduction from the typical $10-20 per line plus nearly $5 in surcharges. The app utilizes QR codes for access to hotel services and complies with Emergency 911 laws, unlike outdated PBX/VOIP systems. Free trials are offered to hotels before committing to yearly licenses.
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Visito Launches AI Agent that Lets Guests Search, Book, and Pay Directly Over Messaging

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  • 4 March 2025
📱 Hotel Phone App, LLC, founded in March 2024, released HOTEL PHONE APP™ on Apple and Google Play App Stores. The app transforms guest cell phones into mobile room phones. Doug Killion, the developer, highlights cost savings for hotels by eliminating push button phones and their monthly costs. The app leverages existing cellular technology and integrates with hotel management software. Subscription starts at $3 per room per month, significantly less than traditional PBX/VOIP services costing $10-20 per line plus $5 in fees.
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Cloudbeds and Duetto Announce Partnership to Drive Innovation in Hotel Revenue Optimization

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  • 4 March 2025
📱 Hotel Phone App, LLC, founded in March 2024, released 'HOTEL PHONE APP'™ for Apple and Google Play stores, enabling hotel phones on personal cell phones via QR code scanning. The app removes the need for traditional push button phones, cutting monthly costs per phone line, and includes PBX and VOIP technology dating from the 1930s-1970s. Subscription for hotels starts at $3 per room/month, compared to PBX/VOIP services costing $10-20 per line/month plus $5 in fees. The app is compliant with Emergency 911 laws and offers location services. Free trials are available for hotels before committing to yearly licenses.
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Visa Tap to Phone Reports 200% YoY Growth

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  • 2 March 2025
📱 Hotel Phone App, LLC, founded in March 2024, released the HOTEL PHONE APP™ for Apple and Google Play stores. Doug Killion, the app developer, claims it replaces outdated hotel phone systems, offering savings by eliminating monthly costs per phone line. The app enables guests' cell phones to function as mobile room phones. Subscriptions start at $3 per month per guest room, significantly less than the traditional $10-20 plus $5 in fees for PBX/VOIP services. The app complies with Emergency 911 laws, while phased deployment and free trials are available for hotels.
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“Hawaiian Culture Is Not a Condiment” – Kainoa Horcajo, Mo’olelo Group

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  • 1 March 2025
🌾 Kainoa Horcajo, founder and principal of Mo'olelo Group, discussed integrating culture into hospitality on March 1, 2025. The insights are aimed at benefiting businesses and the people they serve. The episode includes resources and music by Clay Bassford from Bespoke Sound: Music Identity Design for Hospitality Brands. The podcast is available on Hospitality Daily Podcast's website and Buzzsprout.
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Restaurants, Vendors Break Down Restaurant Tech Challenges During RTN’s Town Hall

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  • 28 February 2025
🏠 Industry experts advise restaurants on future-proofing technology choices, emphasizing value, cost, risk, and timing. Cybersecurity remains vital with digital solutions proliferation, driving the need for best practices to protect systems and data. Technology's impact on order accuracy and service efficiency was also discussed at a collaborative think tank, not just a webinar, where restaurant operators and tech providers exchanged strategies for today's fast-evolving landscape.
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RTN Town Hall: Tackling Restaurants’ Top Challenges

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  • 28 February 2025
💻 Restaurant operators and tech providers engaged in a collaborative think tank to tackle the challenges of integrating new technology, ensuring cybersecurity, and boosting order accuracy and speed. They discussed strategies to future-proof tech decisions, methods to protect systems and data, and how to enhance service efficiency with innovative solutions. The full RTN Town Hall is available for viewing, offering insights into navigating the rapidly changing technology landscape in the restaurant industry.
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