The panel discussion "Meet Your Alternative Hostel OTAs" was streamed live Tues. Feb. 11th @ 18:00 GMT. The discussion included representatives from a few OTAs, fielding questions about their businesses and relations with the hostel industry.
"Bookings, Marketing, & OTAs" Panel Discussion was streamed live Feb. 4th at 18:00 GMT. See below for a recording of the entire discussion.
How do you keep your guests and your hostel safe and secure? Learn from the hostel community in this panel discussion, which was streamed live Tues, 21 Jan at 18:00 GMT. It lasted about 40 minutes, and was recorded for your listening and viewing pleasure now!
How can you make your hostel excellent at encouraging community and atmosphere? Learn from the hostel community in this panel discussion, which was streamed live Tues, 17 Dec at 18:00 GMT.
We have just completed today's panel discussion on Social Media Marketing for your hostel. Participants included:
We continued our new feature of Virtual Online Panel Discussions with the topic "Taking on the Low Season".
We had a lot of technical issues this session, but were able to still somewhat edit the video.
Tuesday was our first Virtual Unconference Panel Discussion. The topic was “Reviews & Reputation”, and included two hostel owners from the US, one from Mexico, and one from Romania.
We are live with today's panel discussion. Go to YouTube to see the live stream.
This article describes a way that you can increase bookings to your hostel by increasing the search engine rankings of the pages about your hostel on hostel booking engines' Web sites.
