pricing

Incentivize Guests to Book Directly: Offer Value-Adds That Cost Nothing

Today, I’m going to share the second (of three!) important takeaway from this article series: how hotels can boost direct bookings WITHOUT discounting or adversely affecting their bottom lines. NB: […]

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Drive More Direct Bookings Without Sacrificing Your Bottom Line

For many years, hoteliers have been throwing away potential revenues right-and-left, offering huge discounts to lure bookers back from the OTAs and alternative accommodation options. NB: This is an article […]

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What Should Impact Those ‘Last Minute’ Revenue Decisions?

What Should Impact Those ‘Last Minute’ Revenue Decisions?

In our last blog, we looked at just how important making clever revenue decisions far in advance can be to your business. NB: This is an article by Adrienne Hanna, […]

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The Difference Between Rate Maximization and Upselling

Being in the business of hotel sales training, most months I spend at least six to eight days training hotel sales managers and also reservations sales agents on how to […]

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The impact of rate blending on parity

Though the hotel industry as a whole has been aware of it for a while, rate mixing or ‘blending’ continues to be an area in which OTAs outstrip their hotel […]

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Stay Confident, And Don’t Sell Your Hotel Out Too Soon

For many hotel general managers, knowing their hotel is sold out means they’re finally able to get a good night’s sleep, but if the hotel is sold out a week […]

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How does a channel manager help increase hotel revenue?

Often times you think of taking your hotel business to the next level that’ll boost your hotel revenue. You ask your business guru for tips to know how to reap […]

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Hotstats Hotels Performance: MENA, Europe, UK and US (April 2018)

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA Profit per room at hotels in the Middle East & Africa fell by 12.1% year-on-year in April as revenue levels crashed on the back of plummeting […]

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5 hot air balloons with one rising higher than the other reflecting a hotel not relying on compsets for its pricing

Leveraging Competitive Benchmark at Hotels

Benchmarking is by definition the measurement of one company’s achievements compared to the standard, the best in class or the competitive set. It is used to understand the gaps in […]

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Google Testing Variable Occupancy in Germany

An important distinction travelers make when booking a hotel room is the designation of how many people will be staying in the hotel room. Business travel tends to be single […]

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