pricing

U.S. Hotels on Alert After Q1 Occupancy Decline

The U.S. hotel market suffered a 0.5 percent decline in occupancy during the first quarter of 2016.  This is the first year-over-year decline in occupancy since the fourth quarter of […]

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Serving up revenue management strategy in four courses

The food and beverage and hospitality industries go together like “bed and breakfast,” “cheese and wine,” and well, “revenue” and “management.” From rooftop views to custom craft cocktails to Michelin-star […]

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How to forecast hotel revenue like a pro

Forecasting hotel demand can be a challenging thing to do — whether you’re a revenue manager, an operations manager or a hotel business manager. It can feel like a constantly […]

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U.S. Hotel Revenue Growing, but Slowing

U.S. hotel revenue growth is slowing down, while expenses are on the rise.  According to CBRE Hotels’ Americas Research’s 2016 edition of Trends® in the Hotel Industry, operating performance continued […]

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Now time for Airline pricing spring clean

Does your pricing strategy have cobwebs? Was it developed at a different time in a different market context? Could it use some ‘spring cleaning’, disposing of practices that don’t make […]

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Hotel Industry Fundamentals Are Good and Will Continue

Hotel industry fundamentals are good, and will continue to improve. But the hotel industry is being punished by the disconnect between the investment community of Wall Street and actual performance […]

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Heal your Self-Inflicted Wound and Decrease OTA Dependency

NB: This is an article by Max Starkov, President and CEO of HeBS Digital Background: The year of 2016 will be the first in which OTA revenues in the U.S. […]

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Expedia’s view: Publicly available loyalty rates may be bad

NB: This is a viewpoint by Melissa Maher, senior vice president of the Global Partner Group, at Expedia. One of the questions that raised a great deal of discussion was […]

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Lowest Available Hotel Rates: A Friend or Foe?

Owing to increased Internet penetration and the booming sharing economy, which has an impact on the lodging sector, the online travel market in Asia-Pacific has grown in recent years. Technology […]

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Hotels Can Compete for Revenue Against Airbnb

  The Airbnb business model is driven by solid economic fundamentals but hotels can offer value as well Airbnb successfully delivers relevant and quantifiable advantages in saving time, defeating distance […]

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