In today’s hotel sector an increasingly complex network of traditional and web based channels have to be managed to insure hotel success. Key questions include: how should you distribute over the web? What should you include on your brand.com website so people book through it? How can you maximise the potential of online travel agents (OTAs)? With the distribution environment both highly complex and constantly evolving, this course will give you comprehensive foundation of current industry practices to help jump start your career in this fascinating domain.
This course is part of the Hotel Management: Distribution, Revenue and Demand Management Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Setting the scene
A deep dive into hotel distribution
Direct distribution: the key to hotel success
How to manage your OTA
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- 5 stars78.06%
- 4 stars16.77%
- 3 stars3.41%
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TOP REVIEWS FROM THE FUNDAMENTALS OF HOTEL DISTRIBUTION
Very well done, these teachers and other important figures involved in the course are sharing extensive knowledges and they are teaching very clearly making the topic easy to comprehend, BRAVO!!!
Dear Essec, Greetings from Bali! Thank you for the knowledge of fundamentals of hotel distribution, im starting to gain my confidence to learn more about hospitality again. Thank you once again!
Very Insightful course to the understanding of hotel distribution systems, the channels that can be adopted by each property, and the pros and cons of each!
The course content is great, and the teacher is fantastic.
It needs some updating though. 7 years is a lot. The industry has changed a bit since.
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