Hotels

You probably read the title and said to yourself, “No way, that’s a load of BS. There is no way my managers want to do their financial forecasts. Heck, I […]

We’ve all done it… We’ve all stayed at a beautiful hotel, visited an amazing destination, or eaten delicious food at a first-class restaurant. We’ve also taken great pleasure in telling […]

Family travel is on the rise. Between 2014 and 2017, Google searches for family vacations grew three times faster than other searches in the travel sphere. As part of our […]

RM and marketing have typically been two distinct functions but with new ancillary fees, the drive towards personalisation and greater demand for clever merchandising, this is changing. Marketing and revenue […]

Today’s era of infinite data empowers revenue managers with ever-deeper insights into market dynamics. Monitoring competition and adjusting rates in near real-time has become a bare-minimum activity. Dynamic pricing and […]

Global Distribution Systems (GDS) are used by Travel Agents (TAs) and Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) to book hotels, offering real-time availability of rooms, rates, and dates. Even though GDS can […]

Wіth thе rіѕе оf social mediа аѕ thе nеw frоntіеr оf іnfоrmаtіоn аnd nеwѕ, hоtеlіеrѕ hаvе bееn рuѕhеd tо аdарt tо thіѕ nеw mаrkеtіng lаndѕсаре. NB: This is an article […]

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA Profit per room at hotels in the Middle East & Africa increased by 25.6 percent year-on-year in August, with multiple markets across the region benefitting from […]

As many hotels put their 2019 revenue budgets to bed, they are turning to compensation plans for their key revenue staff. Obviously, the budget numbers comprise most of the compensation […]

Utter the words ‘rate parity’ and we all shudder… after all, ensuring that we have the same rates on all channels isn’t always straight forward. Often the rates aren’t updated simultaneously on all channels but that is often the least of our problems.