inventory

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How to Configure your Hotel Rooms and Room Types

Inventory, the number of rooms available to distribute or sell across channels, is the most important aspect of your hotel business. NB: This is an article from Hotelminder With an […]

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Hotelbeds Cuts Ties to Booking Sites That Break Distribution Rules

Hotelbeds ramped up its support of hoteliers over their concerns about managing online rate parity and the so-called leakage of non-contracted rooms.

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A Hotel Inventory Management Guide for Property Managers

Inventory management is an umbrella concept that involves understanding, overseeing and controlling your hotel’s room inventory. Here are some strategy basics:

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Yield Management for Hotels: What? Why? How?

While there are many similarities, revenue and yield management are two distinct concepts. Yield management is narrower in scope focusing on selling price and volume of sales

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How to Create Your Hotel Competitive Set Analysis?

Knowing who your hotel competitors are is essential for your hotel marketing strategy. Below you will find a few key points to help you boost and enhance your property’s competitive analysis.

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The Importance of Metasearch for Hotels Today

Metasearch is not a new concept. In fact, the concept and implementation of metasearch dates back to the mid-nineties with websites/engines such as SearchSavvy, MetaCrawler, and Hotbot

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3 Trends in Hotel Compression Nights and What They Mean

As the number of compression nights continues to decrease overall in the U.S., will pricing power be a concern in 2019? Compression nights have long served as opportunities for hoteliers […]

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3 Tips to Improve Your Hotel Occupancy Rate

The occupancy rate is a widely tracked metric for any hotel. One of the first steps in measuring the performance of your hotel is looking at its occupancy rate. First, […]

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Why Can’t Hotels Drive Rates?

The firm has predicted that hotel occupancy in the US will rise to 66.2% in 2019 – a fifth straight record level. That occupancy will be driven by a 2.1% increase in demand, although this will be somewhat rebalanced with a 1.9% increase in hotel supply.

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Contra or Barter Exchanges – How to Record Them and Some Tips

Contra, barter, trade outs, exchanges – they are all the same thing. Exchanging goods and or services is older than currency and it’s still used today, especially in hospitality. How […]

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