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Booking.com, an operating business of The Priceline Group has announced it will waive enforcement of its existing wide parity provisions with German accommodations with immediate effect and will amend its […]

It’s not enough for revenue managers to continue learning in their ever-evolving discipline; they must also teach those (and relentlessly so) who might not be so open to this new […]

Don’t let softness in first-quarter performance data in the Middle East fool you. The region as a whole still posts some of the strongest numbers in the global hotel industry […]

Years of rising average daily rates and demand, among other factors, have made the ground fertile for new hotel supply. How will the growing pipeline of new hotels impact hotel […]

Price positioning plays a larger role in driving revpar than does occupancy for European hotels, according to a recent study titled “Competitive hotel pricing in Europe: An exploration of strategic […]

The latest thinking is that in the current multichannel price-transparent world revenue management needs to consider availability in conjunction with rates. NB: This is an analysis by Alex Dietz, Advisory […]

Whilst London hotels’ profitability showed a virtually flat year-on-year movement in the month of March, the UK provinces continued to post strong performance with particular growth in gross operating profit […]

An analysis from STR Analytics looks at Hotel weekday versus Hotel weekend performance in the top 25 U.S. markets. When analyzing daily data, weekdays and weekends behave differently. Across many […]

Glasgow performed well in March despite a drop in average room rate across Scotland’s three key cities, according to new figures from tourism research firm LJ Research.  The LJ Forecaster […]

Hoteliers have been telling us for years that the public needs to be better educated about what rates really stand for. NB: This is an analysis by Pamela Whitby, editor […]