Competition Among OTA, Search Players Leaves Hotels with Options

Google has appeared more aggressive in the travel space lately, inserting itself into the competition between hotels and online travel agencies for primacy among consumers searching for a room. The […]

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Research: Maximizing hotel profitability potential

In 2015, hotel occupancies were at all-time highs throughout the industry. Since most hotels are still not struggling to fill rooms in 2016, we wondered: What is the optimal occupancy […]

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4 metrics for measuring airline revenue performance

Complicated revenue management drives unsatisfactory results, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Let me start this story with a quote from Scott Kirby, President, United Airlines at the […]

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“Shopping coming to Instagram” – what this means for hotels marketers

With that simple headline, commerce arrived on one of the world’s most engaging visual platforms. An official blog post marked the announcement from the Instagram team. There would now be […]

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Your Summer Revenue Check-list

Revenue Management: Take back control of your inventory

PART 2 OF 3 – CORPORATE ACCOUNTS CONTRACTING NB: This is an article by Pontus Berner, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at berner+becker revenue management. Time flies and with 2017 around […]

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Automated email ideas for the holidays

The holiday season is upon us and we’re all ramping up to prepare for upcoming busy long weekends and time off over Christmas and New Year. Hoteliers specifically are energising their […]

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Travel distribution: The end of the world as we know it?

  Travel distribution faces a range of potentially huge disruptions over the next 10 years that will significantly impact industry players and their business models. We examine the potential disruptive […]

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Remarketing Strategy: Simple way to improve Hotel direct bookings

For an independent hotel, it is sometimes hard to get noticed. When a potential guest is searching for a hotel in their chosen destination, they tend to shop around. They […]

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Baggage essentials in airline Revenue Management

The recent 2015 Ideaworks compilation of airline ancillary revenue sheds some light on airline practices, not least that of Spirit Airlines. According to the report, Spirit is once again recognised […]

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UK hotel room rates crash in Q3

Average hotel room rates in major UK cities including Cardiff, Edinburgh and Bristol have fallen by up to 20% in Q3 2016 when compared with Q3 2015 prices, according to […]

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