pricing

Improved strategic understanding needed for hotel pricing

The issue of UAE hotels dropping rates could be due to a combination of a reactive response to market forces, lack of understanding of the hotel’s overall strategy in relation […]

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Different ways hotels can achieve optimal pricing positioning

Neil Corr, IDeaS senior advisor in EMEA, discusses the different ways today’s hotels can achieve optimal price positioning and business mix. In the volatile world of hospitality, what are some of the […]

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The importance of the distribution channel in yield management

The hospitality industry is one of those industries where the people running the show of hotel business cannot lay back and earn easy revenues. Revenues of a hotel may fluctuate […]

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Ideal Pricing for a Hotel’s Ideal Revenue Management Strategy

One of the most important decisions that every hotel organization needs to make is establishing their optimal public pricing structure. For some hotels, this can be an overwhelming challenge – […]

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Price disparity, the eternal problem of hotel distribution

In this post, we will be talking about an issue known by many yet still unresolved, currently having come no closer to a solution. Price disparity is the main problem […]

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Pricing-only Revenue Management: Are you leaving money on the table?

The hospitality industry has been following revenue management practices for decades now. Today, dynamic transient pricing is considered the industry standard for pricing guest rooms. Now, as rate transparency and […]

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PolyU Study Finds Room Attribute Preferences Key to Hotel Profit Maximisation

Hotel managers need to understand the value that customers place on particular room features and charge for them accordingly, argue Dr Lorenzo Masiero of the School of Hotel and Tourism […]

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Hospitality Yield Management: Important for Efficient RM Strategy

What do airlines, tour operator and hotels have in common? All of them sell fixed time-limited resources. Moreover, when it comes to maximizing revenue from a fixed resource, say, hotel […]

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How Hotel Website Design Affects ADR

Your hotel website is the first place virtually all of your future guests will engage with your property and set expectations. But more importantly, as hotels struggle to increase rates […]

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Global perspective on revenue management yields highest profit

Global is a big word and now that we have your attention I want to define global in a hotel setting. Global refers to all sources of revenue and their […]

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