inventory

Tripadvisors’ New Netflix Style Subscription: Tripadvisor Plus

No one has tackled the travel subscription market at scale and TripAdvisor is almost uniquely placed to do this. They have the potential to have real impact

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Metasearch: The Rate Parity Battleground for 2021

Ask a revenue manager why they lose sleep at night, and you might hear a few mentions of uncontracted OTAs and booking sites that pop up in metasearch

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Hotel Room Wholesalers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?

Wholesalers can play a major role in the way you distribute your hotel rooms and rates. They will never distribute your inventory directly to travellers

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Rethinking Hotel Distribution Channels

Every hotel uses similar tools for distribution and OTAs have become a commodity. That means it’s harder for smaller hotels or chains to stand out

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COVID-19 Summary: 5 Key Points on Asia Pacific Hotel Performance

When using hotel total-room-inventory (TRI) methodology, Mainland China RevPAR was just 10% behind its 2019 RevPAR levels. Well ahead of other key regions

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Capacity Constraints: Managing in a COVID-19 World

Understanding your unconstrained demand together with your yieldable capacity is necessary to make the best pricing and inventory management decisions

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Now That Hotels Are Offices, Will Business Travelers Return?

Hotels are not only looking at rooms-as-office day rates, but also large event rooms that could be converted to socially distanced workspaces

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Using an Attribute Based Selling Approach in Your Upsell Strategy

There are many ways to apply the forward thinking principles of attribute based selling through different channels for example, upselling

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Your Hotel Revise and Prepare Level 5 Checklist

Here is a hotel Level 5 checklist to help you revise and prepare core items including booking engine, voucher strategy and website content

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trivago launch CPA or commissionable model. What is it, how does it work?

trivago is betting on a commission-based participation model that reduces investment risk and contributes to visibility of the direct channel

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