How Independent Hotels Tackle Online Reputation Management

Skift Take
The travel industry is looking closely at how hotels tackle the project of closing the conversion loop more often — generating higher returns — by paying attention to how reviews can augment direct-channel bookings and how online reputation management can impact marketing and operations best practices, online and onsite.
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Perhaps no segment of the hospitality vertical feels the pressure of the online marketplace more directly than that of the independent hotelier.
Even the prospect of penetrating upper-level search results can be a daunting prospect for the travel sup