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portugal travel destination skyline with hotels but can the portugese hotel market continue to grow as before

The Portuguese Hotel Market Can No Longer Grow As Before

At first glance tourism revenues paint an optimistic picture for the Portuguese hotel market, however, a closer look reveals a more complex context

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man holding his head in his hands possibly a sales leader wondering why their hotel dashboards continually fail to provide the information they really need

Why Hotel Dashboards Fail: Lessons for Sales Leaders

Most dashboards turn sales leaders into crime-scene investigators. Showing what happened, but not much help when trying to influence the future

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stage lights at a pop concert illustrating importance to hotels of big events to drive big opportunities

Big Events Big Opportunities: How to Prepare for Far-Out Demand

How can your hotel make the most of opportunities with mega events? Here are five ways to prepare and maximize revenue

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a person at a laptop with coins and a graph overlay illustrating the price illusion and why the rate a hotel files is not the rate the traveller might see

The Price Illusion: Why the Rate You File Isn’t the Rate They See

The gap between the price you set and the price the guest pays is often created in the murky middle layer of distribution

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3 Levels of Pricing Architecture: Where is Your Profit Decided?

Discover how your pricing architecture decides your ability to react to demand and why controlling your increments is key to maximising your revenue

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Why Smart Hotels Let AI Drive Their Marketing Ads Strategy

When hotels base their strategy on real-time demand signals, marketing becomes more responsive and more efficient

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dials on a car showing speed and revs and illustrating how technology is changing dashboards

Is AI Killing Dashboards?

Dashboards provide a stable, repeatable truth for metrics but are often over-engineered, static, and force users into pre-conceived analytical paths

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hotel open sign reflecting how hotels can lose money on quiet days

Why Hotels Lose Money on Quiet Days and How to Fix It

With fewer big events, more hotels, and demand spread thinner, success is no longer about winning three great nights

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5 levers reflecting the challenges of low season and deciding those to pull which could turn a critical period into an opportunity

Strategic Levers to Turn a Low Season Period into an Opportunity

Low season has always been a challenge, but it also represents a concrete opportunity to work strategically on profitability, positioning and demand quality

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lego character looking in panic reflecting the concern when your hotel is not pacing like last year

What to Do When Your Hotel Isn’t Pacing Like Last Year

Pace is information, not a verdict. The hotels that win long term are the ones that treat pacing gaps like clues, not emergencies

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