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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.
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
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 […]
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, […]

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.
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 […]
City/Region Wide Supply and Demand Analysis
When you are preparing your budgets, an incredibly valuable tool is what I refer to as the “citywide supply and demand analysis.” I didn’t come up with this, however, I […]

London Supply Boom: How to Maintain Your Market Position
With more than 11,000 new hotel rooms set to open by 2020, London’s hotel growth is predicted to outpace many destinations in Europe. NB: This is an article from Duetto […]
B&B Management Basics: What is a Channel Manager?
Nope, it’s not the remote control for the TV. NB: This is an article from Little Hotelier A channel manager is a tool that you can use to steadily increase […]
Late Cycle Supply Sources of the Occupancy Gap
The present hotel cycle is defying conventional expectations of late-cycle Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR) behavior. Over the previous two cycles, recovery began primarily with occupancy. As the cycles continued, […]