pricing

Death of Priceline’s Name Your Own Price Is Drawing Near

Priceline.com ended its Name Your Own Price bidding service for car rentals Monday, as it did for flights in 2016. When Priceline.com debuted more than 20 years ago, it was […]

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Planet ‘total offer’: the coming revolution in airline merchandising

When three global technology trends combine with two industry-specific trends, can the planets align to transform the online relationship between airline and travellers? For decades, airlines have worked to perfect […]

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ComicCon: Hotel Industry Vs. Airbnb War Over ‘Price Gouging’

Comic-Con in San Diego is the annual convention where people celebrate comics and cosplay as their favorite characters. It is also emerging as an unlikely battleground in the war between […]

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Lawmakers Take Aim at Airfare Pricing, Transparency

For years, airlines have been known to cling to outdated and even antiquated technology, afraid that upgrading their tech infrastructure could lead to the catastrophic downages that have affected most […]

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Has Google Made the Lowest Hotel Rates Harder to Find?

Google appears to have recently changed how it treats the biggest hotel discounts in its advertising-driven, price-comparison hotel search. In our test searches, we see a change. Google used to […]

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What airline pricing needs: a dynamically new approach!

Could it be that pricing opportunities, despite sophisticated airline RM systems, are still not being exploited fully by most airlines? That is the view of an airline revenue management specialist […]

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Travel sites push for easier air fare comparison, airlines oppose move

As airlines charge extra for baggage while adding more fee-based amenities like premium seating and in-flight wi-fi, it’s getting more difficult for travelers to compare the cost of a flight […]

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Top 5 Ways to Drive Your Hotel’s ADR

Email marketing to drive average daily rate (ADR)? Absolutely. As Revinate’s Senior Hospitality Marketing Strategist, one of the first things I’m often asked by our customers is how they can […]

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

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA Following a very challenging period of trading in recent years, year-on-year growth in revenue and profit at hotels in the Middle East & Africa in January […]

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Airbnb And Parity: What Hoteliers Need To Know

Airbnb are never far away from the headlines, but the homesharing giants have been outdoing themselves in 2018. Alongside a plethora of announcements made at the end of February, including […]

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