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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
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
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
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
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
Why NOI is King and 6 Traits of Great Asset Managers
Best asset managers understand Net Operating Income is the only metric that counts. ADR and RevPAR are vanity metrics if they don’t flow to the bottom line
Why Direct Bookings Stall (Even When Marketing Looks Busy)
Marketing fails when it operates downstream of demand formation. So even when marketing looks active, growth feels stuck
Why ChatGPT Is Not a Revenue Management Tool
The problem is not that ChatGPT is “bad at revenue management.” The problem is that it does not actually do revenue management at all
Group Pricing and Displacement Mistakes = Revenue Leakage
Displacement is one of the clearest ways to protect peak dates, reduce revenue leakage, and make smarter pricing decisions
The Human Calculator is Dead: AI Will Save Revenue Managers
We are entering an era where the Revenue Manager is no longer the person who updates the system, but the one who orchestrates the commercial strategy
