pricing
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 […]
Revenue Managers Must Also Understand Guest Spend
The drop in group bookings due to segmentation shift and guests looking for unique experiences are two of the major changes affecting pricing and the role revenue managers play in […]
Generating Group Business with Hotel Data is Easier Than You Think
What do successful weekly Smith Travel Research (STR) reports across regions and hotels have in common? A well-executed group strategy, which answers the question, “What amount of group business, along […]
7 Psychological Pricing Tricks for Hotel Revenue Managers To Try
In the chaotic universe that is the daily life of Hotel Sales and Revenue Management, it can often be difficult to think of creative ways to approach pricing. Even though […]
The Power of Personalization: Customer-Choice Pricing
OTAs may help hotel-room shoppers find the best price, but at what cost? Sure, everyone loves a good deal, but let’s not forget that people will pay more for the […]
Non Pricing Strategies To Increase Your Profits
Any Revenue Manager should have a set of strategies that optimise revenue and profits for their hotel. These strategies include both dynamic pricing and non pricing methods. NB: This is […]
Hotstats Hotels Performance: MENA, Europe, UK and US (July 2018)
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA GOPPAR at hotels in the Middle East & Africa dropped to a new low of $34.70 in July as temperatures in the region soared and demand […]