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Web 2.0 For Hotels – Is it worth it?

The most used Social Media by Hotel owners are Facebook and Twitter, if used well these tools can help find new customers as you can market to millions of their users. For some, social media can be seen as a form of promotion but is it effective? Yes it is but you have to target people that are interested in the Travel Industry. Although it helps a lot you still need to concentrate on other more productive sales areas.

Although these tools can help you still need to set relationships with business sources which normally means lots of personal contact. Social Media is brilliant, but it's harder to interact through just Internet postings and email.

To be successful with Social Media is that you target the right people. Most of the users are not interested in hotels but if you target people that like to travel or that are planning to travel these tools can be successful. Web 2.0 can also help hotel franchises build brand awareness. Multi-brand franchises have an occasion to use these social media tools to make clear the differences for each product in their account.

Unfortunately social media works better for retail products and services of common interest to the community, which can be acquired by anyone at any time. Hotels, on the other hand, are restricted in their call to the wide-ranging public because hotel use is extremely destination and location focused.

On the other hand you can find other travel-oriented sites like TripAdvisor and Best Hotel Directory, which are used by people to make the final decision on which hotel to use. These kind of sites can be used in two ways; to see what other people think about the hotel they are going to book or to leave comments on their experience in hotels they visited. You should make sure you see the comments on your hotel and react on them accordingly.

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