The future of hospitality and travel marketing is online. This is especially true for the digitally-savvy, always online backpacking community. Follow these simple suggestions to improve your online presence and get more guests through the door. 1. Get a great website...
Technology in hotels and hostels – where to invest?
Some accommodation providers sit ahead of the technology curve, most are continually playing catch-up, and others just don’t play all. Where do you sit? And what technology should you be playing with? Here are our suggestions for a shopping list for technology...
Tips to improve your operational efficiency
With a long list of daily operational tasks, booking management and admin functions to think of, not to mention constantly striving to improve guest experience, achieving operational efficiency can be challenging. Here are some tips that can help. 1....
How to avoid the dreaded double bookings?
Every hotelier’s worst nightmare; double bookings are bad for business efficiency and a terrible guest experience! So what can you do about it? Find the cause The solution to every problem begins with finding its cause. What could be causing double bookings or over...
Why booking channel integration to your PMS is critical
Want to avoid overbooking or similar mistakes and truly distribute your inventory on a real-time basis? It is important that your booking management system integrates seamlessly with your channel manager and website booking engine. What does your booking management...
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How to prepare your accommodation for the new ‘protection framework’
The COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting the hospitality industry, and will arguably continue to do so in 2022. The industry has been forced to adapt to world-wide travel restrictions, with the biggest impact not only being on the travellers and tourists, but also on...
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Abode + SmartPay
We're happy to announce that AbodeBooking now integrates with SmartPay. SmartPay provides EFTPOS hardware terminals that can be used with multiple payment providers in New Zealand and Australia. The Abode/SmartPay integration allows payment amounts to be sent to the...
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How to prepare your accommodation for the new ‘protection framework’
The COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting the hospitality industry, and will arguably continue to do so in 2022. The industry has been forced to adapt to world-wide travel restrictions, with the biggest impact not only being on the travellers and tourists, but also on...
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The future of hospitality and travel marketing is online. This is especially...
How to increase your off-peak bookings
Very few properties are spared the periods when vacancies outnumber occupancy....
#instacool tips & hacks to make people <3 your brand
Follow these epic Instagram tips for hotels, hostels and other properties to...
Changelog
Find a record of all our notable changes made to AbodeBooking.
Virtual Room Setup
We added a couple of small updates to the virtual room setup to make this...
Unallocated Bookings
We have updated how unallocated bookings are displayed on the calendar to try...
Google Hotel
For properties using the Abode BE, we can now list these on Google Free Search.