Why You Need to Take a Holistic Approach to Hotel Budget

Why You Need to Take a Holistic Approach to Hotel Budgeting

As summer’s warm breezes and lush, green growth transform into the vibrant colors and crisp air of the fall season, another familiar season arrives in its wake: the often dreaded […]

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Department Managers Want to Do Their Monthly Financial Forecasts

You probably read the title and said to yourself, “No way, that’s a load of BS. There is no way my managers want to do their financial forecasts. Heck, I […]

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The Evolution of The Hotel Booking Journey

We’ve all done it… We’ve all stayed at a beautiful hotel, visited an amazing destination, or eaten delicious food at a first-class restaurant. We’ve also taken great pleasure in telling […]

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4 Ways To Attract More Families To Your Property

Family travel is on the rise. Between 2014 and 2017, Google searches for family vacations grew three times faster than other searches in the travel sphere. As part of our […]

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When Marketing And Revenue Management Walked Into The Sunset

RM and marketing have typically been two distinct functions but with new ancillary fees, the drive towards personalisation and greater demand for clever merchandising, this is changing. Marketing and revenue […]

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Price Elasticity And How It Can Influence Room Rates

Today’s era of infinite data empowers revenue managers with ever-deeper insights into market dynamics. Monitoring competition and adjusting rates in near real-time has become a bare-minimum activity. Dynamic pricing and […]

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Fast Fixes for Today’s Top 4 GDS Challenges

Global Distribution Systems (GDS) are used by Travel Agents (TAs) and Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) to book hotels, offering real-time availability of rooms, rates, and dates. Even though GDS can […]

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4 Social Media Marketing Tips for Hotels

Wіth thе rіѕе оf social mediа аѕ thе nеw frоntіеr оf іnfоrmаtіоn аnd nеwѕ, hоtеlіеrѕ hаvе bееn рuѕhеd tо аdарt tо thіѕ nеw mаrkеtіng lаndѕсаре. NB: This is an article […]

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Hotstats Hotels Performance: MENA, Europe, UK and US (August 2018)

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA Profit per room at hotels in the Middle East & Africa increased by 25.6 percent year-on-year in August, with multiple markets across the region benefitting from […]

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Rate Shopping: Measurement Is Not Just About History

As many hotels put their 2019 revenue budgets to bed, they are turning to compensation plans for their key revenue staff. Obviously, the budget numbers comprise most of the compensation […]

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