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3 Lessons Learned from Looking at Aggregate Hotel Rate Data

To access even more actionable rate data, many hotels are turning to rate intelligence platforms, which allow revenue managers to monitor and respond to more granular competitor data in real-time

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The Definitive Guide to Calendar Shifts and US RevPAR

Looking back at the last 19 years of data, we feel that we can estimate the calendar-shift impact with some precision and estimate the demand and RevPAR impact on monthly performance results

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Think Like a Revenue Manager: 5 Tips to Up Your Group Business for Profitability

If sales and revenue management can understand what they each value in their decisions, together they can better support one another and achieve the overarching goals of the hotel.

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5 Tips for a Successful Budget Season

As hoteliers across the land prepare are in the midst of another budget planning season, consider these five tips to help ease the process, and guide you into a successful 2020 season.

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Hotel Statements: A Model of Profit Maximizing Premia and Discounts

Although the true aim of a hotel’s operation is to maximize profit, the wide availability and frequent reporting of RevPAR may make revenue the hotel manager’s most immediate target

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Creating Holiday Packages & Discounts for Your Hotel

Whether you’re looking to capitalize on the busy holiday seasons or you need to book rooms in the slower months, packages are the best way for your hotel to compete at the booking stage

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Microsites Improve Revenue for Hotel Restaurants and Event Venues

How do you make people notice these incredible places on a hotel website designed for booking hotel rooms? Solution: Give the space its own unique branding and a microsite of its very own.

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Why is Overbooking Important for Hotels and How Your PMS Helps This

To ensure full occupancy, hotels are trying their best to deal with no-shows and cancellations. And this is where overbooking strategy for hotels plays a major role

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Total Revenue Management: Are Hotels Talking About It or Doing It?

My premise was that by 2020 the industry would be entrenched in total revenue management…that elusive goal of managing every revenue source at every guest touchpoint to its maximum profitability

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5 hot air balloons with one rising higher than the other reflecting a hotel not relying on compsets for its pricing

Daily Market Share Data Takes Revenue Management Strategy to New Level

Revenue professionals should be using a market share report broken down into daily data. It is the way to set RevPARs each day in relation to competitors and recognize impact of strategic decisions.

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