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6 tips on what to do when the high-season is over

8 January 2021

Seasonality affects the hospitality industry in many ways especially to attract bookings but what can you do when the high season is over ? Here are some handy tips for accommodation providers on how to strategize when the high season is over. Guest writer Flora from GuestJoy shares her tips.


“I don’t really know what to upsell” or “What are the offers that are always selling?” nevertheless: “How often should I change my offers and what can I upsell seasonally?

These are the common questions, hoteliers ask. Especially late August, early September, when high-season is ending hoteliers tend to turn to us for help. In this article, I am going to guide you through a couple of steps on how to increase your fall bookings and revenue from upselling.   Seasonality affects the hospitality industry probably more than it does any other sector of the economy. It also plays a major role in determining how customers behave, what they purchase, and why they chose your location, nevertheless, it changes the demographics of your hotel, meaning different types of tourists come during the off-season than during the high season. It crucial for hoteliers to understand the seasonality of their location. Some have cute Christmas markets, some offer nature accessible with children.

So what can you, as a hotelier do about this?

1. Grow your customer (data) base

This is an easy marketing strategy that can be used all year round. During high season encourage your guests to sign up to your newsletter, follow you on social media or just store their email address for fall or spring campaigns. You can do this via a CTA (call to action) button on your website. Once you have a great number of subscribers/email addresses and followers you can start your fall marketing.

Design a simple campaign like below, except with a fall theme along the lines of: ‘Fall weekend getaway!’ or ‘Book now and enjoy the fall foliage!’. Of course tailor this to the type of guests that come to your hotel whether they are families, elderly or young couples. If you have an upselling tool then it could do the whole deed for you!

2. Publish content that will make people want to visit you

Get your cameras out and start taking pictures of the beautiful nature around you, show the public that it will worth visit you even in the fall. Embrace indoor activities in case of bad weather and spice up your kitchen’s menu with fall staples (pumpkin spice, apple pies, hearty stews). Learn about local activities, harvests – you can also include this in your kitchen menu, festivals, and inform your potential guests about them on your social media.

3. Do the things you had no time for and evaluate the high season

Train the staff that needs a bit of education, renovate, rearrange furniture, do a grand cleaning, or updates your website. Really, just touch up anything around your hotel that needs touching up. Then get your team together – maybe even do a teambuilding activity – and evaluate the high season. Go through your stats, discuss what worked and what went wrong, finally put together a list of things you can improve. Start doing these during the offseason.

Just think about how sports teams do it. After the season they have a short resting period but after that, they jump to training right away in order to make the most out of next season!

4. Update your OTA content and invest in hotel tech

It’s the perfect time to put some love – no matter how we hate it – into your Booking.com, Expedia, and other OTA profiles. If you think you could benefit from it, the offseason is the perfect time to try out new hotel technology! Have a look at what is on the market and try it out.  If you think you can’t benefit from the latest hotel tech, think again. Installing software or a new app during the low season will allow your staff to get familiar with it when there is no rush or pressure so by the high-season they will be experts

5. Offer deals for weekdays to curb the low season blues

If your traditional weekend goes from Fri-Sun then most likely that is when you get your guests. In order to fill your rooms offer deals or gifts or percentages off for those who stay from Mon-Thurs.

6. Reach out to local tour operators

If you do not already have valuable connections with local restaurants and tour operators (Hop-on hop-off, Tourguide agencies) this is the perfect time to contact them. They are also experiencing a ‘dip’ in their business so they might find the idea of collaborating more appealing than in high season. This will also come as tremendous help during the high-season because you will have even more attractions, tours and restaurants your guests can experience.


This article has been written by guest writer Flora Keresztely.

About the Guest Writer

Flora Keresztely is a Marketing Manager at GuestJoy, a hospitality startup. She combines her passions in content marketing articles, data analysis, writing and traveling. The startup is dedicated to bringing the best guest communication technology to hotels of all size.

6 tips on what to do when the high-season is over was last modified: January 15th, 2021 by staah

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