Informações sobre o curso: 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 jumpstart your career in this fascinating domain. Acknowledgements: Claire Bertrand, Vincent Chatain, Jessica Moses, Benjamin Six (ESSEC Business School), Emilie Dupré (Image-In), Gregory Halidy (Triplay)
Desenvolvido por: ESSEC Business School
Ministrado por: Peter O'Connor, Professor of information systems, Director of the MBA in Hospitality Management
Information systemsMinistrado por: Nicolas Graf, Professeur
Management
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| Compromisso | 4 weeks, 2-4 hours/week |
| Idioma | English |
| Como ser aprovado | Seja aprovado em todas as tarefas para concluir o curso. |
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Programa
SEMANA 1
Setting the scene
The hotel business has evolved from its early days to today. Through this evolution, it has become increasingly specialized. This module introduces the business models, strategies for growth, levels of competition and biggest changes and challenges hotels have to face today.
9 videos, 2 leituras, 3 testes para praticar
- Vídeo: Historical evolution
- Vídeo: The hotel business value chain
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 1
- Vídeo: Franchise and Management agreements
- Vídeo: Growth and the value of branded hotel chains
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 2
- Vídeo: Hotels as economic units
- Vídeo: Introduction to revenue management
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 3
- Vídeo: Trends and challenges
- Vídeo: Wrap-up and conclusion
- Reading: Complementary readings
- Reading: Peer Review documents
Nota atribuída: Why distribution and revenue management are important for hotel profitability
SEMANA 2
A deep dive into hotel distribution
After a rapid introduction of key pieces of terminology and technology, this module will examine in details the components of online distribution today, and focus on how to make the most of an increasingly complex distribution system.
12 videos, 2 leituras, 4 testes para praticar
- Vídeo: The origins of hotel distribution
- Vídeo: The web revolution
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 1
- Vídeo: Working with the OTAs
- Vídeo: OTA Business Model
- Vídeo: The brand.com site
- Vídeo: The forgotten majority: traditional channels
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 2
- Vídeo: The distribution cost puzzle
- Vídeo: The true cost of brand.com
- Vídeo: The price parity paradox
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 3
- Vídeo: Magnificent Meta-Search
- Vídeo: Disruption in the market place?
- Reading: Complementary readings
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 4
- Reading: Peer Review Documents
Nota atribuída: Assessing whether a hotel should work with a 'new' OTA
SEMANA 3
Direct distribution: the key to hotel success
Distributing directly, thus building an effective and efficient website, is an essential success factor. Through this module, you will have a deep understanding of the web development process but also understand the cost of driving traffic, and the importance of using indirect distribution and online marketing techniques.
16 videos, 1 leituras, 4 testes para praticar
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 1
- Vídeo: Deciding what you want
- Vídeo: Registering your domain name
- Vídeo: Content
- Vídeo: What is good hotel content?
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 2
- Vídeo: Creating your web pages
- Vídeo: Selecting a good hosting solution
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 3
- Vídeo: Introduction to online marketing
- Vídeo: Organic search engine marketing
- Vídeo: Paid search engine marketing
- Vídeo: Email Marketing
- Vídeo: Display Advertising
- Vídeo: Affiliate marketing
- Vídeo: Social Media Marketing
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice lesson 4
- Vídeo: Using Analytics for customer insight
- Vídeo: Wrap-up and conclusion
- Reading: Complementary Readings
Nota atribuída: Which electronic marketing technique should I use to generate additional traffic in the short run?
SEMANA 4
How to manage your OTA
In this final module you will attack the critical issue of how to work better with Online Travel Agents. Learning best practices from OTA managers themselves, you will make sure that you are exploiting these valuable and fast growing points of sale to their maximum potential.
16 videos, 2 leituras, 2 testes para praticar
- Vídeo: Why OTA's?
- Vídeo: Reach
- Vídeo: The Billboard Effect
- Vídeo: Pay-per-Performance
- Vídeo: Reactivity
- Vídeo: Market Information
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Lesson 1
- Vídeo: Introduction
- Vídeo: Photos
- Vídeo: Content
- Vídeo: User Reviews
- Vídeo: Competitive Rates
- Vídeo: Manage Availability
- Vídeo: How should a hotel work with Expedia?
- Vídeo: How should a hotel work with Booking.com?
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice lesson 2
- Vídeo: Conclusion
- Reading: Complementary readings
- Reading: Peer Review Documents
Nota atribuída: Assessing a hotel's presence on Booking.com
Perguntas frequentes
Como funciona
Trabajo del curso
Cada curso es como un libro de texto interactivo, con videos pregrabados, cuestionarios y proyectos.
Ayuda de tus compañeros
Conéctate con miles de estudiantes y debate ideas y materiales del curso, y obtén ayuda para dominar los conceptos.
Certificados
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Desenvolvedores
ESSEC Business School
For over a century, ESSEC has been developing a state-of-the-art educational program that gives the individual pride of place in its learning model, promoting the values of freedom, openness, innovation and responsibility. Preparing future managers to reconcile personal interests with collective responsibility, giving consideration to the common good in their decision-making, and weighing economic challenges against the social costs are some of the objectives ESSEC has set for itself. Its ultimate goal? To create a global world that has meaning for us all.
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Classificações e avaliações
I am satisfied about this course and if you give me this opportunity to work with us.
You need to take this course to better understand why revenue is such an important thing to implement at a hotel. This course guides you on basic things that will help at better managing a hotel
Great course
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This course is very interesting. The material which is provided is unique.