pricing

Dynamic Rate Marketing and How You Can Use it?

NB: This is an article from Little Hotelier Having a strategy behind your room rates is critical to your success as a small hotel. Not only is it the key […]

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Fighting Rate Disparity: Keep Your Room Rates in Check

Rate disparity, if left unchecked, can seriously impact your hotel’s bottom line. Hotels often find themselves with lower rates on OTAs and other third party channels than they do on […]

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Hotel Room Rates: 10 signs you need a pricing tool

Revenue management is key to running a profitable hotel – and unfortunately, with things like online sales, ancillaries, and reporting to stay on top of each day, it’s far from […]

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Is it the death knell for rate parity?

So the CMA has announced the launch of a monitoring project for hotel pricing. We’ve been here before. It was all the way back in September 2010 that the UK […]

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How to Set Up Hotel Segmentation: Modern Strategy Tips

Modern Segmentation in Hotels: A Blessing and a Curse Defining a useful segmentation strategy for a hotel can be very complex. The main obstacle is that hotels experience limited flexibility. Quite […]

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How Hotels Can Determine The Right Pricing Strategy

In this blog post, SnapShot’s Head of Education, Janel Clark, explores both traditional market segments, newer, more dynamic models, and how to develop the best pricing strategies. Segmentation: Then and […]

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Hyatt on how to get your pricing staples right

Getting hotel rates straight sounds complicated but for Hyatt it’s about keeping it simple from the get go. Like all the big chains, Hyatt Hotels has the budget and the […]

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European ADR and RevPar up but Occupancy flat

According to STR data, when compared with May 2015 Europe reported nearly flat occupancy (-0.3% to 73.4%). However, a 2.1% rise in ADR to EUR114.28 drove a 1.7% increase in […]

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Starwood taps machine learning to dynamically price rooms

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide uses an analytics engine to alter hotel price rates on the fly, improving demand forecasting by 20 percent. Should Marriott International acquire Starwood Hotels & […]

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Can UAE Hotel industry absorb price increases?

Plans to implement value added tax (VAT) in the UAE, expected to be introduced at a rate of 5% in 2018, have not given me much cause for concern as […]

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