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Analytics and Marketing Ops: A Match Made in Heaven.

Today’s consumer is more value-oriented and less loyal than ever before, the rapid increase in startup culture has everyone looking for the next big thing and because of this, the […]

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Lodging Forecast 2016

For the past several years we have put out our lodging forecast for 2016 at the beginning of Q4 as we’ve had time to analyze the data and hear from […]

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Rugby World Cup boosts RevPAR

The opening weekend of the Rugby World Cup provided a boost to hotels in the host cities, which reported a ‘significant’ growth in revenue per available room (RevPAR). According to […]

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Metasearch sites adopting instant booking for hotels

Instant booking on metasearch sites is nothing totally new, but is becoming quite a big thing, with Google having recently doubled down on it. If metasearch is leading to increases […]

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Effect of TripAdvisor Reviews on Bookings

While we know that travel reviews influence traveler decisions—95% of travelers report using travel reviews regularly to make booking decisions*—the impact of reviews on hotels goes much further than just […]

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Advance Booking Uptick is Welcome News

As the fall season comes into full swing, hotels in major North American markets are experiencing an improved advance booking pace, as well as healthy increases in both transient (individual […]

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How operations impacts revenue management

As in many industries, pricing in airlines is often considered a headquarters function, a process that may require detailed customer segmentation, complex demand forecast algorithms and optimisation routines. For airlines, […]

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Do ride-sharing app partnerships drive revenue

Big-name brands have already entered into partnerships with ride-sharing services such as Uber and more such collaborations are expected to roll out in the future due to the convenience they […]

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The Big Revenue Management Reset

Today, a revolution is happening in hotel revenue management as hoteliers with the highest profit expectations are beginning to follow the customer instead of the product.  They are using advanced […]

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Criteo data deep dive charts rise of mobile

An analysis of mobile travel bookings has underlined the rapid growth of business being done via handheld devices. While mobile overall accounts for 23% of travel bookings globally, up from […]

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