4 ways travel channels can benefit from room media feeds
Travel channels know the importance of high-quality hotel photos. But sourcing and accurately matching media to hotels and their room types is an industry-wide struggle. Our MediaConnect solution helps channels solve media sourcing problems. Those solutions are developed out of ongoing conversations with travel channels around the world. [...]
Leonardo + Getaroom partnering to connect rates and room-type media on leading OTA channels
One of the biggest challenges facing travel channels is data harmonization. That’s a fancy way to say that travel channels need to sync the information they have about a hotel’s room availability with all of the ways that hotel’s room information is distributed online. One hotel’s room codes can be distributed under multiple [...]
New to Content Manager: Better media monitoring and insights
In 2021, we’re adding new improvements and additional functionality to Content Manager, our content management and distribution platform, that increases revenue, improves workflow and protects brand integrity. In discussions with our customers, it was clear that hotel brands need clear historical records of the changes made to their [...]
Our technology partner has swept top categories at the 2021 HotelTechAwards for the second year in a row
We’re thrilled to say that our technology partner, Bookassist, has claimed the top spot in three categories at the 2021 global HoteTechAwards. Leonardo partners with Bookassist to build high-converting websites for hotel properties and brands. This year, Bookassist took home the coveted spots as the #1 Best Digital [...]
This year in Leonardo news: hotel marketing in unprecedented times
It’s no surprise that the majority of our most read content this year was about COVID-19 recovery strategies for hotels. Every property and brand needs guidance on what to do to get ahead, and Leonardo provided those resources throughout the year. We focused on a variety of different arenas, with an emphasis on direct booking [...]
This year in Leonardo news: the State of Distribution
We’re wrapping up a year of news and resources here at Leonardo, by sharing the top articles we published in 2020. In a year where every hospitality company was making difficult decisions and finding new ways to drive revenue, distribution has become more important than ever. The theme across everything we heard this year, from [...]
This Year in Leonardo News: What We’ve Been Up to in 2020
No matter how you look at it, 2020 is going to be a year to remember. Impossible to predict changes have disrupted the travel industry more than most. Here at Leonardo, we have risen to the challenge, working alongside our partners, forging new relationships, and keeping ourselves busy with major product changes and releases. Over the [...]
Optimize Your 2021 Budget in the Age of Furloughs
As we head into the end of 2020, most hospitality companies are setting their 2021 budgets and strategies. It’s a forecasting period unlike any previous year in the travel industry. With lasting economic uncertainty, every hotel brand is facing unique challenges. Following the 2008 recession, Harvard Business Review analyzed [...]
Dispelling Myths Around Static Content
Leonardo has spent the last twenty years working in the world of digital hotel content. The industry as a whole, and we as part of it, have come to define two kinds of content displayed in every hotel listing across the web, whether it’s on an online travel channel, a gated corporate channel, or within the data network of a bed [...]
How Automation Saves Hotels Time and Money
Automating content distribution saves time and money for hotels, no matter your scale—from independent hotels, smaller soft brands, to multi-national chains. When we say “content distribution automation” we mean using technology to centrally gather all the marketing text, photos, videos, and virtual tours for one hotel [...]