pricing
Why You Need to Take a Holistic Approach to Hotel Budgeting
As summer’s warm breezes and lush, green growth transform into the vibrant colors and crisp air of the fall season, another familiar season arrives in its wake: the often dreaded […]
Price Elasticity And How It Can Influence Room Rates
Today’s era of infinite data empowers revenue managers with ever-deeper insights into market dynamics. Monitoring competition and adjusting rates in near real-time has become a bare-minimum activity. Dynamic pricing and […]
Hotstats Hotels Performance: MENA, Europe, UK and US (August 2018)
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA Profit per room at hotels in the Middle East & Africa increased by 25.6 percent year-on-year in August, with multiple markets across the region benefitting from […]
Rate Shopping: Measurement Is Not Just About History
As many hotels put their 2019 revenue budgets to bed, they are turning to compensation plans for their key revenue staff. Obviously, the budget numbers comprise most of the compensation […]
Rate Parity: The World As We Know It Is About To Change (again!)
Utter the words ‘rate parity’ and we all shudder… after all, ensuring that we have the same rates on all channels isn’t always straight forward. Often the rates aren’t updated simultaneously on all channels but that is often the least of our problems.
Rise In Solo Travelers And How You Should Encourage IT
Ted Turner, founder of Cable News Network, once said that ‘to be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane.’ An increasing […]
How To Create The Right Rate Plans For Your Property
Understand your audience. Know your product well. Develop a rate plan. Deliver it at the right time and via the right platform. There you have it. A SUCCESSFUL RATE PLAN! […]
Everyday Reasons Why Smaller Hotels Need a Dynamic Pricing Software
Flexible pricing, open-pricing, demand-based pricing, roll pricing, time-based pricing or real-time pricing- Call it what you will. Today, dynamic room pricing is one of the most widely used Hotel revenue […]
Ten Years Later: Has U.S. Lodging Industry Really Recovered?
Lodging is a cyclical industry meaning that it passes over time through four distinct phases: peak, contraction, trough and expansion. Most industry participants believe that 2007 was the previous peak […]
Hotel Budget Season: Knowing the Past Helps Future Success (2 of 4)
Your budget represents your first forecast for the year. How do you make that forecast as accurate as possible? It starts with a deep dive into the past. NB: This […]