data

Hospitality industry lacks data driven marketing skills

  Almost a third (32%) of travel and hospitality industry marketers rate data science as the skill they most lack, with programmatic coming in a close second at 28%. This […]

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Four reasons why revenue management systems are failing

  NB: This is a viewpoint by Rich Maradik, founder of nSight for Travel. The leading hotel revenue management systems (RMSs) essentially use a hotel’s own past data to predict […]

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Airbnb policy to release anonymized data

Airbnb’s release of anonymized data about people who use its site to rent their property ‘will give New York City the necessary information to craft needed regulations and to enforce them’ while […]

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The Future of Hotel Revenue Management?

  NB: This is an article by Rich Maradik, Founder of nSight for Travel The head of Revenue and Distribution for a large global chain framed the hotel big data […]

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3 things Expedia learnt from analyzing airfare data

  Expedia, the travel technology giant, has analyzed its trove of data to identify key trends in air travel. The data was consolidated primarily from the Airlines Reporting Corporation, with […]

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Big Data and the Hotel Stay

NB: This is a featured article by Pierre Boettner, founder and CEO, hospitalityPulse The industry buzz around “Big Data” is deafening. ‘Big Data Analytics ‘ – its uses, abuses, and place […]

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Plymouth revealed as ‘best value’ city in UK

Plymouth is the best value city in the UK for a hotel stay, according to Trivago’s annual Best Value UK City Index. The list, which includes 26 cities with at […]

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Airbnb data reveals impact of the sharing economy

  More than 3 million people in the UK used Airbnb accommodation for their travels this year in a boost to the sharing economy, the site has revealed. There were […]

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Managing the invisible in a complex world of Revenue Management

  Tom Bacon outlines some of the risks that arise from working with the ‘invisible’ systems of RM, big data and analytics systems Airline revenue management (RM) systems, like many […]

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F&B revenues, profits on the rise

Hotel food-and-beverage operations have been increasingly profitable in recent years. However, successful hotel F&B operations can be difficult to replicate due to market-to-market differences, site differences and differences in guest […]

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