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In a tale that is becoming all too common for the region, RevPAR at UK hotels was up in November, but profit against the same time last year was negative

Hotels in Mainland Europe are generating revenue and keeping more. After what’s been a bruising year on the profit side, November marked the third consecutive month of y-o-y GOPPAR gains

Rate parity must be a focus for today’s revenue managers if they want to be profitable. Here are three questions you must know the answers to if you want to achieve parity.

Hotel labor costs on a per-available-room basis were up 2.0%; however, the strong revenue led to a 0.4-percentage-point decrease in labor costs as a percentage of total revenue

Two consecutive months of profit growth gave way to a contraction in November for hotels in the Middle East & North Africa as GOPPAR declined 1.7% year-over-year

I am not telling you to give up on a price comparison widget. What I’m doing here is simple: I’m proving facts. The facts say price check tools might be useful but only if placed in the right context.

With January sales around the corner, here are tips to help keep track of your parity and catch unexpected rate undercutting as soon as possilbe. Make sure it’s your direct revenue, not the OTAs’

If you go through a third-party booking site to make hotel reservations, you’ll see certain hotels pop up first over others. In the case of Expedia Group sites, such as […]

After the consumer madness and mayhem of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it’s a good time to look back on whether the results were as we expected or whether we […]

They say all good Revenue Managers carry two things: a calculator to crunch the numbers and a crystal ball to predict the future. Here is my views on how the hotel industry will change in 2020.