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Metrics align to support Japan’s hotel growth

Overall fundamentals look good for Japan, and most people in the industry expect strong performance ahead. Most main stakeholders in the Japanese hospitality industry remain positive about market conditions across […]

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Optimizing Differently to Improve Revenue Performance

Optimizing Online Distribution The ever changing distribution landscape can be challenging to maneuver. Costly connectivity solutions often result in some degree of manual management of varied channels, which is time […]

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Lodging Forecast 2016

For the past several years we have put out our lodging forecast for 2016 at the beginning of Q4 as we’ve had time to analyze the data and hear from […]

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Rugby World Cup boosts RevPAR

The opening weekend of the Rugby World Cup provided a boost to hotels in the host cities, which reported a ‘significant’ growth in revenue per available room (RevPAR). According to […]

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Corporate Hotel Rate Negotiations for 2016

As the corporate and contract hotel rate negotiation season is about to begin, the outlook is for the largest increases in the past three decades. Corporate and contract rate negotiations […]

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Advance Booking Uptick is Welcome News

As the fall season comes into full swing, hotels in major North American markets are experiencing an improved advance booking pace, as well as healthy increases in both transient (individual […]

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Franc fumbles affect hotels in Switzerland

A look at STR Global data year-to-date July reveals that Switzerland’s hotels overall occupancy rate has not changed compared to the same period last year. The level could be maintained […]

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How operations impacts revenue management

As in many industries, pricing in airlines is often considered a headquarters function, a process that may require detailed customer segmentation, complex demand forecast algorithms and optimisation routines. For airlines, […]

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Europe hotel results for August

Compared to August 2014, European hotel results saw a 2.2% increase in occupancy to 77.1%, a 6.4% increase in ADR to €119.34 and an 8.7% increase in RevPAR to €92.05 […]

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More growth in 2016 UK hotels forecast

London hoteliers saw a record 2014 but so far 2015 hasn’t replicated this stellar performance, according to new PwC analysis.  While average performance metrics are still very high by most […]

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