Email channel – APAC

The 2025 Hospitality Benchmark Report helps hoteliers assess performance, pinpoint improvements, and set goals. These email marketing benchmarks focus on APAC hotels’ use of the email channel for segmentation impact, campaign performance, upsells, and surveys.

The 2025 Hospitality Benchmark Report helps hoteliers assess performance, pinpoint improvements, and set goals. These email marketing benchmarks focus on APAC hotels’ use of the email channel for segmentation impact, campaign performance, upsells, and surveys.

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Email channel: introduction

Communication is key to any guest relationship

The email channel represents how well hoteliers communicate with guests and leverage the channel to drive ancillary revenue while managing reputation. Guests are constantly bombarded with email from various senders – including other hotels. That’s why it’s important that every email sent out is targeted, personalized, and relevant. Not only will guests be more likely to read your emails, but it may result in upsells and better reviews.

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Hotel email campaign performance

Fundamental metrics of any email

It’s important to measure open rates, click-through rates, and conversions for any email, but it’s also important to have a granular perspective to assess performance accurately. To that end, we’ve provided metrics for one-time campaigns and recurring campaigns, since hotels use them differently. We also identify the best performing campaign types.

It’s important to measure open rates, click-through rates, and conversions for any email, but it’s also important to have a granular perspective to assess performance accurately. To that end, we’ve provided metrics for one-time campaigns and recurring campaigns, since their use cases can be completely different. We also identify the best performing campaign types.

One-time campaigns – APAC

Newsletters not only had the best core email performance, it also earned the highest average booking value.

Recurring campaigns – APAC

For automated recurring campaigns, cart abandonment emails maintained an incredible open rate.

Average booking value and room nights booked for recurring campaigns – APAC

Cancellation recovery emails earned higher booking values than other recurring email types by a wide margin.

Top campaigns by average booking value – APAC

One-time newsletter campaigns delivered the best average booking value, probably due to effective segmenting.

Revinate enables us to to make data-driven decisions and drive revenue by rapidly rolling out direct booking promotions – ensuring we stay ahead of the competition.

Revinate enables us to to make data-driven decisions and drive revenue by rapidly rolling out direct booking promotions – ensuring we stay ahead of the competition.

Ruchira Wimalaratne
Director of E-Commerce
Crown & Champa Resorts

Segmentation impact

How targeted emails convert

Use the guest data you collect to create specific segments for customized messaging by applying multiple segment filters. Better targeting leads to more personalized and relevant guest communications and offers. As a result, your emails can generate more revenue.

Use the guest data you collect to create specific segments for customized messaging by applying multiple segment filters. Better targeting leads to more personalized and relevant guest communications and offers. As a result, your emails can generate more revenue.

Overall email marketing benchmarks with no segmentation

Without any filters applied in any region, open rates hovered around 30% for all regions.

Email marketing benchmarks based on send size – APAC

In APAC, applying enough filters to reduce segments to under 5K resulted in a gain of roughly 10% in open rate.

By leveraging guest data and implementing personalized campaigns, we’ve strengthened guest relationships and driven loyalty.

By leveraging guest data and implementing personalized campaigns, we’ve strengthened guest relationships and driven loyalty.

Jiho Kim, Hotel Cluster General Manager
The Arca

The Arca overcame the hurdles of fragmented data and inefficient processes, ultimately enhancing guest satisfaction, driving loyalty, and bolstering their competitive edge in the market with Revinate.

Upsells

Ancillary revenue is primary revenue

From pre-arrival to checkout, there are many touchpoints when guests expect to receive an email from you. These are perfect opportunities to upsell a product or service, like a room upgrade, spa discount, late checkout, and more. Are you doing everything you can to earn ancillary revenue?

From pre-arrival to checkout, there are many touchpoints when guests expect to receive an email from you. These are perfect opportunities to upsell a product or service, like a room upgrade, spa discount, late checkout, and more. Are you doing everything you can to earn ancillary revenue?

Upsell utilization

EMEA leads the way, upselling in 50% of communications, with APAC improving significantly YoY.

Upsell revenue per hotel per month

While every region improved YoY, North America and APAC increased monthly upsell revenue by roughly $150.

Upsell utilization – APAC

APAC improved across all regions YoY, with the Australia-New Zealand micro region leading the way.

We deliver the right message to the right customers at the right time, increasing the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and allowing us to attract more customers.

We deliver the right message to the right customers at the right time, increasing the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and allowing us to attract more customers.

Ria Ayu, Digital Marketing Manager, Sales & Marketing, Hotel Indigo Bali Seminyak Beach

The Hotel Indigo team has seen $600,000 in direct channel revenue in 7 months with Revinate.

Upsell utilization by hotel size – APAC

All hotel sizes saw tremendous gains in upsells; some improvements were over 10%.

Upsell utilization by hotel class – APAC

More improvements across the board YoY, but midscale and economy improved by nearly 20% each.

Upsell revenue per booking per campaign type – APAC

The revenue results are undeniable, with confirmation and pre-arrival upsells improving by nearly $10 each.

The Hotel Indigo team delivers an average of $29K in room revenue for every email marketing campaign they deploy.

The Hotel Indigo team delivers an average of $29K in room revenue for every email marketing campaign they deploy.

Upsell revenue per booking by campaign type – APAC

Each micro region saw tremendous gains either confirmation or pre-arrival emails.

Upsell categories

Across the globe, food & beverage were upsold the most, while check-in/check-out offers were a distant second.

With Revinate Marketing, I have the data I need to develop marketing strategies that can be executed across Seibu Prince Hotels & Resorts and easily report on the success of the strategies in multiple regions around the world.

With Revinate Marketing, I have the data I need to develop marketing strategies that can be executed across Seibu Prince Hotels & Resorts and easily report on the success of the strategies in multiple regions around the world.

Trent Pigram, Global Marketing Manager
Seibu Prince Hotels & Resorts

Surveys

Feedback is a gift that could foster loyalty

Surveys are a direct line of communication with your guests, providing insights that can shape and elevate the guest journey. These insights not only help you drive operational improvements, but also foster loyalty, satisfaction, and long-term success. We’ll examine benchmarks for survey response rates and Net Promoter Scores to understand how hoteliers are engaging their guests and meeting expectations.

Surveys are a direct line of communication with your guests, providing insights that can shape and elevate the guest journey. These insights not only help you drive operational improvements, but also foster loyalty, satisfaction, and long-term success. We’ll examine benchmarks for survey response rates and Net Promoter Scores to understand how hoteliers are engaging their guests and meeting expectations.

Survey response rate

Of all the regions, it was guests in APAC who were the most likely to respond to a survey.

Survey response rate – APAC

For APAC, specifically, it was guests in India who wanted to share hotel feedback the most, dwarfing other areas.

Survey response rate by hotel size – APAC

Guests at larger hotels tend to respond to surveys by a couple percentage points more than other hotels.

With Revinate, we can finally control the booking journey and drive direct revenue by leveraging our data and marketing directly to our customers.

With Revinate, we can finally control the booking journey and drive direct revenue by leveraging our data and marketing directly to our customers.

Amy Martin-Smith
Business Development Manager
1834 Hotels

The 1834 team leverages Revinate’s automation features to drive revenue throughout the guest journey.

Survey response rate by hotel class – APAC

Luxury hotels had the highest response rate, possibly due to high expectations of guests.

Net Promoter Score

NPS ticked up slightly or maintained value for all regions, but APAC led the way with the highest score.

Net Promoter Score – APAC

APAC micro regions were slightly mixed with Australia-New Zealand dipping while other areas improved marginally.

Revinate has transformed the way 1834 Hotels markets to its guests, allowing them to leverage guest data to drive better engagement before, during, and after the stay while maximizing direct bookings.

Revinate has transformed the way 1834 Hotels markets to its guests, allowing them to leverage guest data to drive better engagement before, during, and after the stay while maximizing direct bookings.

Net Promoter Score by hotel size – APAC

It’s the smallest and largest hotels that have the best NPS, but all hotel sizes improved a little.

Net Promoter Score by hotel class – APAC

Unsurprisingly, it’s the luxury hotels that have the highest NPS, most likely due to the luxury experience.

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We are a year into our journey with Revinate and seeing our guest database grow with a measurable shift in our direct booking strategy.

We are a year into our journey with Revinate and seeing our guest database grow with a measurable shift in our direct booking strategy.

Marc Winchell, Corporate CRM Manager, Pacific Hospitality Group

Marc Winchell, Corporate CRM Manager, Pacific Hospitality Group

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