Hotels

6 Things Every Revenue Manager Should Do In January

With just a small percentage of difference in your hotel’s RevPAR between success and underperformance, the role of the Revenue Manager (RM) is crucial to hotels. With the start of […]

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Why you shouldn’t participate in Booking.com “Risk Free Reservations”

Booking.com is launching its new programme: “Risk Free Reservations”, at least for some hotels here in Spain. They are doing so in the same way as with other programmes the […]

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6 hotel booking trends we’re watching in 2018

Significant changes look set to transform the travel industry in 2018. Blockchain technology, China’s booming tourist sector, and the continuing travel ambitions of Airbnb, Facebook and Google all look set […]

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Best Available Rate: “Rumors of my death greatly exaggerated!”

According to some, the concept of the Best Available Rate (BAR) is a thing of the past. NB: This is an article by Blake Madril, Revenue Technology Strategist at IDeaS […]

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The Future of the Internet Booking Engine

Expedia launched October 22, 1996 as a division of Microsoft. It was in that decade the Internet Booking Engine (IBE) was born. NB: This is an article by Glenn Wirick, […]

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Hotstats Hotels Performance: MENA, Europe, UK and US (November 2017)

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA Despite successfully recording growth across a number of revenue departments this month, hotels in the Middle East and Africa suffered a 1.8% year-on-year drop in GOPPAR, […]

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Tips to optimize ADR and occupancy rates at your independent hotel

The Average Daily Rate or the ADR in the hotel industry is often a primary concern for most hotel owners. However, in today’s times, every hotel owner including independent hoteliers […]

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OTAs have learnt from hotels and now applying these lessons

At industry events experts often talk about what hotels learned from working with OTAs and how vacation rental owners and managers can leverage this hindsight to gain an advantage and […]

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How to Sell Hotel Rooms Without Offering Discounts

Slashing room rates can feel like an obvious and easy solution to a decline in bookings. However, your marketing strategy should not appear obvious or easy. Low prices invite the […]

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Revenue managers to ‘adapt and adopt’ in 2018

Planning ahead and being flexible in the face of disruptors like calendar shifts and new supply can help revenue-management teams and their properties be less vulnerable to changes, sources said. […]

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