pricing
The True Essence of Hotel Revenue Management
In 1972, an employee of British Overseas Airways Corporation by the name of Ken Littlewood provided the genesis of what has become today’s revenue management (RM) discipline. NB: This is […]
Can I stop OTAs from displaying wholesale rates?
It looks like Expedia could be formalizing their practice of displaying third-party rates alongside directly-contracted rates from hotels. When we first covered this back in December 2017, it seemed as […]
5 intelligent pricing strategies for your B&B
Setting rates and pricing at your B&B cannot be random and unstructured. NB: This is an article from Little Hotelier Recognising the importance of revenue management, you need to have […]
Hotstats Hotels Performance: MENA, Europe, UK and US (February 2018)
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA The positive start to the year for hotels in the Middle East & Africa was short lived as profit per room fell by 7.8% in February, […]
The OTA Distraction – Pushing Rather Than Pulling
You cannot go a day online in the hotel community without seeing a ton of OTA related discussion. NB: This is an article by David Lund, founder of The Hotel […]
4 things to know about hotel performance metrics
As the U.S. hotel industry marks eight years of continued monthly revenue per available room growth, analysts are digging deeper into performance data to explain the trends behind these numbers […]
Death of Priceline’s Name Your Own Price Is Drawing Near
Priceline.com ended its Name Your Own Price bidding service for car rentals Monday, as it did for flights in 2016. When Priceline.com debuted more than 20 years ago, it was […]
Planet ‘total offer’: the coming revolution in airline merchandising
When three global technology trends combine with two industry-specific trends, can the planets align to transform the online relationship between airline and travellers? For decades, airlines have worked to perfect […]
ComicCon: Hotel Industry Vs. Airbnb War Over ‘Price Gouging’
Comic-Con in San Diego is the annual convention where people celebrate comics and cosplay as their favorite characters. It is also emerging as an unlikely battleground in the war between […]
Lawmakers Take Aim at Airfare Pricing, Transparency
For years, airlines have been known to cling to outdated and even antiquated technology, afraid that upgrading their tech infrastructure could lead to the catastrophic downages that have affected most […]