staycations
Five Easy Tips to Drive Revenue With Local Staycationers
Jayme Schreiner | January 13, 2022
By Jayme Schreiner With the surges of COVID-19 variants still impacting international and long-distance travel, hotels and resorts need to get creative and think local to keep generating revenue. From couples and families to remote workers, most of us just need a break from being stuck at home – and your hotel can be the perfect escape. Creating special programs geared to locals is a great way to buoy ancillary spend while simultaneously setting your property up as an authentic community hub. If you aren’t sure where to start, we’ve compiled five easy tips to help transform your hotel into a haven for local staycations. ...
HVS Monday Musings: Staycations – a Trend That’s Here to Stay?
Mandeep S Lamba | September 13, 2021
By Mandeep Lamba, Dipti Mohan It's no secret that after COVID, staycations – vacations near to home, within the same city, or at drive-able destinations – are becoming increasingly popular around the world. Staycations allowed people to escape their daily routines post the many lockdowns, while also helping the hotel industry in weathering the COVID-storm when demand from all other customer groups came to a halt. Furthermore, with the rise of work-from-home and e-schooling, many people were able to enjoy staycations without taking long leaves. In the past year, everyone from homestay and vacation rental owners to hoteliers with propert...
Staycations Can Help the Hospitality Industry Weather the Storm
Dr. Alan Fyall | August 28, 2020
By Dr. Alan Fyall Months into the pandemic, it has now become cliché to talk about how COVID-19 has battered the travel and hospitality industry. Still, no matter how cliché, the severity of the situation continues to be a reality. Unfortunately, in all likelihood we are going to have to continue enduring these challenges for the foreseeable future, at least until a vaccine is found. Having said that, I do believe there are things the industry can do to alleviate some of its current hardship. The first thing to remember is that as brutal as the effects of the pandemic have been, there’s no reason to believe the industry won’t re...
Autumn Offers Worth Driving For
Larry Mogelonsky | July 29, 2020
By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.hotelmogel.com) This is the summer for staycations. With group, convention and most corporate travel in stall mode due to COVID-19, you will need strong programs in place to motivate leisure guests from now-critical drive markets to continue to book with you through the autumn months. As part of this seismic shift in travel behavior, first consider the disruption to L2B timeframes. For the rest of summer, bookings at this point may mostly be last-minute as travelers hold out due to the vacillating news cycle on Covid numbers. Many rural resorts already have high occupancy and simply need a few nigh...
