inventory
Hotel Chains’ New Direct Booking Strategy? TripAdvisor!
One hotel chain, Marriott International, which participates in TripAdvisor Instant Booking, and one that doesn’t, Hilton Worldwide, are now both using TripAdvisor’s comparison shopping and booking features to persuade travelers […]
Dynamic Rate Marketing and How You Can Use it?
NB: This is an article from Little Hotelier Having a strategy behind your room rates is critical to your success as a small hotel. Not only is it the key […]
The perfect metasearch engine is yet to come
None of the main metasearch sites or metasearch engines, among which we include Trivago, TripAdvisor, Google and Kayak have fully convinced hotels, especially independent ones, to “connect” their direct sales. […]
US forecast: Cloudy with a chance of flat occupancy
Hotel revenue growth has slowed significantly in 2016, and sources said they expect that to continue through 2017 as occupancy flatlines. But even if performance might not be as positive […]
European ADR and RevPar up but Occupancy flat
According to STR data, when compared with May 2015 Europe reported nearly flat occupancy (-0.3% to 73.4%). However, a 2.1% rise in ADR to EUR114.28 drove a 1.7% increase in […]
Demand More from Your Hotel Forecast
Recent Revenue Management related activity on Twitter reinforces the various ways we discuss demand as an industry. From how to forecast hotel demand to tweets such as #revenuestrategyfordummies, the common […]
U.S. Hotels on Alert After Q1 Occupancy Decline
The U.S. hotel market suffered a 0.5 percent decline in occupancy during the first quarter of 2016. This is the first year-over-year decline in occupancy since the fourth quarter of […]
Independent Hotels Must Defend Their Inventory
A hotel’s inventory is its lifeblood. As the digital world becomes a more important part of the circulation of that inventory, dozens, even hundreds of technology solutions have been built […]
Selling hotel distressed inventory should be stress-free
Juggling the day-to-day management of a busy hotel can feel overwhelming at times. All over the world hoteliers, just like you, are working hard to keep the many complex facets of […]
Majority of London’s new hotel rooms are budget
More than half of the 18,000 hotel rooms to have opened in London since 2012 have been in the budget sector. That’s according to new figures from property consultants JLL […]