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Before I started my own business, I was heavily entrenched in the Marriott International corporate brass, where group meetings business accounts for 40% of the overall revenue for their US […]

Modern Segmentation in Hotels: A Blessing and a Curse Defining a useful segmentation strategy for a hotel can be very complex. The main obstacle is that hotels experience limited flexibility. Quite […]

A couple of years ago, SiteMinder, the Australia-based hotel technology provider, targeted North America as a market, having already expanded to receive a majority of its revenue from hotels in Europe. The company’s progress was […]

Differentiation is the new norm and airlines need to think very carefully about every commercial decision. Virtually everything we read is biased. Of course, this is true in politics and […]

Hotel revenue growth has slowed significantly in 2016, and sources said they expect that to continue through 2017 as occupancy flatlines. But even if performance might not be as positive […]

Hotels in Abu Dhabi were unable to offset the decline in revenue across the major operating departments in May despite significantly reducing both overhead and labour costs, according to latest […]

Getting hotel rates straight sounds complicated but for Hyatt it’s about keeping it simple from the get go. Like all the big chains, Hyatt Hotels has the budget and the […]

NB: This is a viewpoint by Paul Van Meerendonk, Director of Advisory Services for IDeaS. One of the most important decisions every hotel organization needs to make is establishing their […]

According to STR data, when compared with May 2015 Europe reported nearly flat occupancy (-0.3% to 73.4%). However, a 2.1% rise in ADR to EUR114.28 drove a 1.7% increase in […]

Two analysts at Forrester’s CXNYC 2016 advised brands to follow guidelines for optimizing mobile engagement and driving revenue – such as simplifying tasks, avoiding taunting error messages and removing unnecessary […]