financials

How to Create More Hospitality Financial Leadership in Your Hotel

  #1: You can increase the way you lead your team financially. Create an environment that has your managers working together on the “business” of running your hotel. It all […]

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Hotel Current Assets – What You Need to Know

When we cross the bridge in the hospitality financial world to the greater business world, the concept of an asset and how it is used comes full circle. I am […]

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Fixed/Variable Costs and Room Revenue Management

Lately, I have spoken to several revenue managers who have told me how much their cost is to take a room—to make that last sale of the day. NB: This […]

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4 Ways to Negate Effects of New OTA Accounting Standards

Effective January 1, 2018, several new accounting standards became mandatory for the hospitality industry in the U.S. The most important of these standards concerns revenue recognition, and more concretely how […]

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Understanding Customer Acquisition Costs to Determine Value & Profit

Hotel revenue managers are experts at determining how much revenue a particular guest will generate. NB: This is an article by Rainmaker With their RMS, they use predictive analytics to […]

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Why 2018 Will Be Great: Hotel Industry Forecast

The big news in 2017 was the stock market, consumer confidence and the economy in general. Tax reform, wage growth, reduced regulations and the strength of our nation could keep […]

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Free Property Management Software – More Disruption?

Our industry is ripe for all kinds of disruption. The two big disruptors today are online travel agents and home sharing services. NB: This is an article by David Lund, […]

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Hospitality Financial Leadership – Recording Average Length of Stay

The one thing I see time and time again with clients is just how poorly their financial statements are set up. NB: This is an article by David Lund, founder […]

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HotStats Hotels Performance: MENA, Europe, UK and US

MENA Following a summer of mixed fortunes, which included a welcome year-on-year increase in profit per room in August, hotels in the Middle East & Africa were back to business […]

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Revenue management: a cost saver, not a cost centre

    Any hotelier operating today without the support of an automated revenue management system is working at a competitive disadvantage. Advanced revenue management solutions allow hotels to better predict […]

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