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Threat Analysis: Why Your Email Marketing Database Needs Regular Protection
Threat Analysis protects your email marketing database from harmful data that lowers deliverability and revenue. The review identifies unsafe, invalid, or risky addresses and gives your team a clear suppression file to improve CRM accuracy. You receive a full report and a cleaned file with each record labeled by status, ready for use in any system.

Bryn Tyler
6 days ago2 min read


From Guests to Lifelong Advocates: How Gratitude Builds Hotel Guest Loyalty
Hotels increase repeat revenue when they recognize guests and show authentic appreciation. This blog explains how data, recognition, and thoughtful lifecycle touchpoints support stronger relationships. You gain practical steps that guide your marketing team toward higher direct bookings and better retention.

Bryn Tyler
Nov 212 min read


Compare Hotel CRMs: Why a Customer Data Platform Delivers 3x the ROI
This post breaks down the key differences between CRMs and CDPs and shows why clean, structured guest data is the foundation of every high-performing hotel marketing strategy.

Bryn Tyler
Nov 34 min read


From PMS to CDP: How Hotels Can Turn Guest Data Into a Revenue Engine
In hospitality, guest data is only as powerful as your ability to connect it. This article explains how hotels can transform fragmented PMS and CRM data into a single, revenue-driving asset using a Customer Data Platform (CDP). Discover how unified profiles, real-time insights, and automated personalization help hotels grow direct bookings, reduce OTA reliance, and strengthen guest relationships.

HMA Staff
Oct 273 min read


Case Study: How a Florida Gulf Coast Resort Used Guest Data to Drive 8,996% ROI
A Florida Gulf Coast resort used guest data to shift from calendar emails to targeted campaigns, driving $2.3M in direct revenue and 8,996% ROI in 2024.

Bryn Tyler
Oct 143 min read


How a Guest History Analysis Becomes the Foundation for Hotel Reporting & Data Analytics
A Guest History Analysis (GHA) isn’t a one-off report; it’s the blueprint for your hotel’s data strategy.

Bryn Tyler
Sep 233 min read


Case Study: How a Central Coast Boutique Property is Winning with Younger Travelers
For boutique properties, understanding who your guests are is only part of the equation. The real advantage lies in knowing which segments drive revenue and how those behaviors are shifting.

Bryn Tyler
Sep 114 min read


5 Ways to Fix a Hotel CRM That Isn’t Delivering Results
A hotel CRM that’s slow, cluttered, or unreliable isn’t a minor inconvenience. It drags down campaign performance, inflates costs, and blocks revenue you should already be capturing. Most legacy hotel CRMs weren’t designed for today’s guest data, booking behavior, or cross-channel marketing needs. You can fix that. Here are five ways to diagnose what’s going wrong and how to get your hotel CRM back on track. Why Your Hotel CRM Isn’t Delivering Results A sluggish, messy, or un

HMA Staff
Sep 23 min read


Why an Email Threat Analysis Should Be on Every Marketer’s Calendar
Email continues to be one of the highest-ROI marketing channels, but its success depends on the health of your database.

Bryn Tyler
Aug 253 min read


How to Clean Up Your Guest Data Before the Holiday Rush
Your end-of-year revenue depends on more than the offer. It depends on whether your CRM is ready for it. The holiday season is one of the...

Bryn Tyler
Aug 123 min read


You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See: Why Clean Data Is the Backbone of Actionable Hotel Reporting
You can't optimize what you can’t measure. And you can't measure what your CRM doesn't understand.

Bryn Tyler
Jul 152 min read


OTA Emails Are Ruining Your Hotel Segmentation - Here’s How to Fix It
Struggling to get results from your email marketing campaigns? It might not be your offer. It might be your data. More specifically: your...

Bryn Tyler
Jul 82 min read


Why Data Quality Is Underrated - and Undermining Your Hotel CRM Strategy
Insights from HMA’s 2025 Data Quality Case Study In the world of hospitality marketing, data is currency. But too often, hoteliers are...

Bryn Tyler
Jun 92 min read


How Guest History Analysis Can Supercharge Your Hotel Marketing
Guest history analysis unlocks powerful insights that help hotels market smarter. By understanding past behaviors - like booking patterns, spend levels, and stay frequency - you can tailor offers, timing, and messaging to increase conversions. This data-driven approach boosts guest loyalty, drives direct bookings, and maximizes revenue from every stay. It’s one of the most effective tools to personalize and elevate your hotel marketing strategy.

HMA Staff
May 283 min read


Data-Driven Marketing: Embracing the Power of First Party Data
Data-driven marketing starts with first-party data - the insights your customers share directly with you. Unlike third-party sources, this data is accurate, reliable, and tailored to your audience. By embracing first-party data, marketers can deliver highly personalized experiences, improve ROI, and future-proof their strategy in a privacy-first world. It’s not just smart marketing - it’s sustainable, scalable growth.

HMA Staff
May 194 min read


Unlocking the Power of Data: How Hotels Can Optimize Performance with Smart Analytics
With over 40 years of expertise in bespoke reporting, we’ve witnessed firsthand how effective data analysis can revolutionize hotel...

HMA Staff
Apr 292 min read


The Power of Clean Data: Boosting Marketing Accuracy and ROAS in the Hotel and Resort Industry
In the competitive world of hospitality marketing , where precision and personalization are key, every decision must be backed by accurate data . For hotels and resorts, understanding your guests and crafting campaigns that resonate with them can make all the difference. This is where data cleansing—the process of identifying and correcting inaccuracies in datasets—becomes an invaluable tool. By ensuring your data is clean, you can enhance marketing accuracy, elevate guest ex

HMA Staff
Apr 93 min read
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