financials

How Much Are You Paying in OTA Commission and How to Reduce it?

Before you embark on a mission to reduce your OTA spend, calculate what your OTA commissions are. Assess for the value, not just volume, of bookings

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How to Evaluate Your Property’s Performance: From RevPar to CPOR and Beyond

The aim is to describe the main KPIs typically adopted by a hotel to support their business analysis, ranging from RevPAR, RevPAC, CPOR to NPS and beyond

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Why the Future Must Include a GOPPAR Index

What would things look like if a number three or four REVPAR index brand delivered a number one or two GOPPAR performance?

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A Cautionary Tale for Hotels: Restaurant Supplies and Labor Costs Rising

Supplies and labor costs are rising in the restaurant segment; it’s a similar story for hotels. Are prospective customers willing to pay higher rates?

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Modern Hotel Financial Statement Features (Part 1)

We should produce enhanced financial statements with just a little more detail added that will greatly assist you in effectively managing your hotel

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The Top 10 Forecasting Secrets

Forecasting is important because we need a current plan to help us execute our financial strategy. Without a map any road will take you where you want to go

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Spending on Revenue Management Strategy with no Clear Idea of Return?

A revenue management strategy should be at the core of a lucrative independent hotel business plan, allowing hoteliers to optimize availability and pricing

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The Daily Revenue Audit – The Must Do’s

The hotel business is a retail business and to stay on top of your business, you must fully and completely balance your daily revenue and settlements

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Using Hotel Breakeven to Evaluate Recovery Revenue Strategies (Pt2)

We look at cost implications and revenue opportunities these create and how, by understanding breakeven and modelling, you can see if they are profitable

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The Pivot to Running Leaner Hotels Has Been Swift.

The lean hotels of the future will be the perfect balance of revenue and expense to produce optimal profitability. You can’t pay rent with RevPAR

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