It was a close race, as hotels around the world battled it out for Lodging Interactive’s first annual Instagram Hotel Christmas Tree Competition that aimed to support local hotel charities. The stakes were high, and the competition was fierce, but in the end, only one could come out on top – the JW Marriott Houston Downtown Hotel.  “We had a lot of fun with this contest, and more importantly, we are now supporting the winner’s local charity, Heaven Instead, by awarding $1,500 on behalf of the JW Marriott Houston Downtown Hotel,” said DJ Vallauri, Lodging Interactive’s Founder and CEO. “T ..read more

A Google Business Page is a valuable marketing tool for hotels and helpful when trying to reach potential guests. Here are a few tips on how a hotel can use its Google Business Page to its advantage: Claim and Verify your Hotel’s Business Page The first step in creating a successful Google Business Page is to claim and verify your hotel’s listing. This will allow you to manage the information that appears on your Business Page and ensure that it is accurate and up to date.  To claim and verify your hotel’s Google Business Page, follow these steps: Go to https://www.google.com/business/ a ..read more

Your Hotel Can Win $1,500 To Support Your Local Charities.   This holiday season, the team at Lodging Interactive and CoMMingle have come up with the perfect way to spread some cheer – an exciting contest where your hotel can win $1,500 for its local charities! Just enter by showing us your Christmas tree – the more creative, the better! Whether it’s totally decked out with twinkling lights and festive ornaments or dressed up in a clever theme, it’s sure to bring in some serious holiday joy. Get ready – it’s time to show your colors and have some fun this holiday season. So let’s see that ..read more

Lodging Interactive, award-winning digital marketing, reputation management, and social media marketing agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry since 2001, announced the launch of its LodgingPLUS program, the complete digital presence and marketing solution for hotels, restaurants, and spas. LodgingPLUS includes: Website Design, Development, and Hosting Secure SSL and Daily Website Backups Organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing Guest Review Response Services and Reputation Management Social Media Marketing and Direct Message Engagement On-Site Socia ..read more

Lodging Interactive, award-winning digital marketing, reputation management, and social media marketing agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry since 2001, today announced the launch of its HotelPage landing page service for hotels and resorts. HotelPage empowers branded and independent properties to create dedicated landing pages for promotions and operational needs. “Hotel customers are deploying HotelPages to showcase their open jobs and career opportunities to candidates,” said DJ Vallauri, Lodging Interactive’s Founder and CEO. “Franchised properties can really benefit from th ..read more

Lodging Interactive, award-winning digital marketing, reputation management, and social media marketing agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry since 2001, today announced the launch of its updated CoMMingle services. CoMMingle provides enhanced guest review reputation management and social media marketing services to hotels, restaurants, and spas. ”Over the past six months we’ve invested heavily in ‘rebooting’ CoMMingle to ensure we continue to address the ever-changing technology landscape and the needs of our hospitality customers,” said DJ Vallauri, Lodging Interactive’s Founde ..read more

Lodging Interactive, award-winning digital marketing, reputation management, and social media marketing agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry, today announced the next generation of its HotelSiteXPRESS bespoke website and digital marketing solutions tailored to meet the needs of independent and branded properties. HotelSiteXPRESS offers an affordable mix of hotel website design and hosting along with digital marketing services on a low-cost, monthly subscription basis with no long-term contracts. “Since 2001, we’ve helped hundreds of full-service luxury properties capture increa ..read more

Lodging Interactive, award-winning digital marketing, reputation management, and social media marketing agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry, today announced it had implemented ReviewPro’s online customer review platform to power its CoMMingle:Engage reputation management services.  “Over the past six months, we have evaluated numerous guest review SaaS platforms and have found ReviewPro to be the most advanced and best suited to meet the unique needs of our CoMMingle:Engage reputation management services business,” said DJ Vallauri, Founder and CEO of Lodging Interactive ..read more

The number of Instagram followers is seen by many hotel managers as an indication of their social media marketing success. After all, this vanity metric is easy to benchmark against the hotel’s competitive landscape and easy to explain to ownership; Instagram followers are either up or down over the previous period. Furthermore, with many services promising to grow Instagram followers in exchange for a low monthly fee, it’s tempting for some “trusted” social media marketing agencies to resist taking the easy, but troublesome road. “We continue to see so-called ‘leading’ social media marketing ..read more

META (aka Facebook) recently started to roll out a major change to its Reviews tab which could affect whether or not your property still displays the Reviews tab to page visitors. As you can see from the image below, Facebook states that tabs are available to Pages with 2,000 or more fans. As a result, if your property has fewer than 2,000 fans, your Reviews tab may not display. However, our social media team continues to find many hotel business pages with less than 2,000 fans still displaying the Reviews tab. Our guess is that Facebook is continuing to roll this out globally. For more infor ..read more