Restaurant Revenue Management Practices: Altering Customer Perceptions

Revenue management is all about pricing strategies to allocate the right capacity to the right customer, at the right place, at the right time. Airlines and hotels use such practices, […]

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Understanding the true cost of distribution

Hotels can make the biggest impact to their bottom line with an optimized direct channel. But a recent white paper by HEDNA found most independent properties are underinvesting and undervaluing […]

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Science Based Hotel Revenue Management Surpasses Fiction of Rules Based Models

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. ~ Carl Sagan ~ When it comes to developing pricing strategies, dealing with the competition, and […]

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Understanding Travel’s Personalization Revolution

Personalization is the name of the game in 2018 when it comes to the travel customer experience. Thanks to a growing volume of data collected from every customer touch point, […]

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Restaurant Reservation: The Direct Booking War

The travel hospitality industry saw a reckoning beginning in 2015 in the form of book direct campaigns. In fact, they were so successful that, for well-known brands like Hilton, direct […]

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Mobile and a massively missed opportunity

Markets are becoming mobile first and giving brands huge potential to reach out to travellers, but are many still missing out by failing to reach consumers on their smartphones? Creating […]

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Data Append Campaigns: Digital Marketing tactic for need times

Every hotel experiences need periods. Whether it is the shoulder season, big group cancellation, missing pace, or just a bad month, these things happen to almost everybody in our industry. […]

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6 Secrets to manage hotel occupancy during slow periods

Every hotel, regardless of the size or type, experiences days, weeks or months of slow periods. Every hotel has an off season when vacancies outnumber occupancies. During these low peak […]

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

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA Hotels in the Middle East & Africa successfully cut costs to fuel a 4.6% year-on-year increase in profit per room this month, which was in spite […]

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Automating Guest Messaging at Your Hotel Improves Guest Experience

Hotels using automated text messaging have seen guest engagement increase by over 25% NB: This is an article by Alex Shashou, President & co-founder of ALICE Texting has emerged as […]

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