Hotels

Valuation professionals specializing in hotels commonly receive questions about the impact of Airbnb’s growing popularity on the established hotel industry. For years, many within the profession shrugged off Airbnb as […]

In a world of lightning-fast technology and constant industry disruption, one skill has risen as a top necessity for older companies to survive: Innovation We’ll be the first to tell […]

Nary a hospitality conference is found without the token debate about OTAs and their impact on hotels’ direct bookings. This trending topic has become so prevalent and so fierce, in […]

New report from Sabre and Phocuswright shows the steps hoteliers can take to create and maintain the right channel strategy to reach and convert more customers Sabre Hospitality Solutions has […]

Changes in rooms revenue per available room (RevPAR), and RevPAR penetration receive a lot of attention from hotel managers.  This is because the monies hotels receive from renting guest rooms […]

In the 20-some years since Microsoft launched Expedia, we have seen a lot of changes in the online travel agent space. There have been so many startups, each offering some […]

In the U.S., Airbnb hosts renting out more than one entire home or apartment generated $1.8 billion in revenue for the company in 2016. That’s one-third of Airbnb’s total U.S. […]

Sometimes we are asked why we talk so much about Booking.com and that we make them out to be the “enemy”. That is not the case and we do not […]

To maximise the revenue performance during a fair or high impact event might be easier said than done. Many rely on returning business to bring in a safe level of […]

2016 was a year full of fun new surprises for our favorite search engine. Travel, in particular, seems to be a special area of interest for Google as the search […]