hotels

Changes in rooms revenue per available room (RevPAR) and RevPAR penetration receive a lot of attention from hotel managers. Obviously, this is because renting guestrooms is the major source of […]

While social media has become a mainstream marketing channel, there are many variables that hoteliers are not taking advantage of to increase their revenue. Unlike other mainstream marketing avenues, social […]

Here’s what we all know by now: The explosion of smartphone usage over the past few years has been staggering. And not just iPhones, but smartphones of other brands as […]

Each day, hotels across the industry put themselves at risk of losing hundreds, or even thousands of dollars… simply by doing nothing at all. These hotels, many of which are […]

  These days, hotel and resort operators are feeling more and more heat from their owners to move the needle on ancillary revenue. RevPAR growth has dramatically slowed down to […]

On Wednesday this week, two giant hotel chains-Hilton and Marriott-announced their 2016 earnings. Inc., the owner of the Waldorf Astoria, reported increased earnings per share (EPS) for its fourth quarter […]

While hoteliers anticipate highly-sophisticated and ‘digital native’ hotel guests in 2020, their plans for industry technology remain stuck in the early 2000s. This is the startling research finding from ‘The […]

Hotel distribution has changed a lot in the last 20 years. However, hotel revenue management practices haven’t. This is because the technology used hasn’t kept pace. Revenue managers want to […]

Hilton’s recent shake up of its loyalty programme is a bold move for the company and will impact the whole travel and hospitality sectors. Rebranded as “Hilton Honors”, members are […]

In less than a decade the twenty-something founders of Airbnb have gone from selling politics-themed cereal, back in 2007, to raising $850 million on a $30 billion valuation. In short: […]