pricing

stage lights at a pop concert illustrating importance to hotels of big events to drive big opportunities

Big Events Big Opportunities: How to Prepare for Far-Out Demand

How can your hotel make the most of opportunities with mega events? Here are five ways to prepare and maximize revenue

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a person at a laptop with coins and a graph overlay illustrating the price illusion and why the rate a hotel files is not the rate the traveller might see

The Price Illusion: Why the Rate You File Isn’t the Rate They See

The gap between the price you set and the price the guest pays is often created in the murky middle layer of distribution

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3 Levels of Pricing Architecture: Where is Your Profit Decided?

Discover how your pricing architecture decides your ability to react to demand and why controlling your increments is key to maximising your revenue

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Cluster-Based Insights to Improve Hotel Direct Bookings

Improving direct conversion is not simply about generating more bookings; it is about capturing more demand through the channel that delivers profitability

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Hotel BI vs Excel: The Hidden Costs

In hotels, the “cost” of Excel is found in payroll. When you look at hours spent on manual reporting, this “free” tool looks like the most expensive asset

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Spring Hotel Pricing and Bookings: Are You Ahead of 2025?

You should already have enough forward bookings to make meaningful evaluations, but are you early enough to intervene if something does not add up

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Why Revenue Management Is Not Enough For Complex Portfolios

Revenue strategy changes as portfolios grow. What works at the individual property level doesn’t reliably extend across multiple hotels, markets, and teams

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hotel open sign reflecting how hotels can lose money on quiet days

Why Hotels Lose Money on Quiet Days and How to Fix It

With fewer big events, more hotels, and demand spread thinner, success is no longer about winning three great nights

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lego character looking in panic reflecting the concern when your hotel is not pacing like last year

What to Do When Your Hotel Isn’t Pacing Like Last Year

Pace is information, not a verdict. The hotels that win long term are the ones that treat pacing gaps like clues, not emergencies

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woman and robots in front of computers reflecting the question of whether revenue managers are doomed in the age of rms and ai

Are Revenue Managers Doomed in the Age of RMS and AI?

AI can make revenue management work leaner and more precise, but without the right prompt, results are mediocre at best or, at worse, harmful

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