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Are You Planning to Include a Payment Gateway in Direct Sales Channel?
The reactivation of the demand for hotels has led many hotels to seek information about what payment gateway to include into their direct sales
3 Reasons Why Valuable Data, Not Cheap Deals, is Secret to Recovery
By using data to understand the real cost and impact of decisions, hotels are able to build a revenue strategy that optimizes net RevPAR and GOPPAR
How Much Are You Paying in OTA Commission and How to Reduce it?
Before you embark on a mission to reduce your OTA spend, calculate what your OTA commissions are. Assess for the value, not just volume, of bookings
The Yoga Of Change In Hotel Revenue Optimization
Now that we are experiencing guests returning to our hotels, what is changing within the revenue optimization field?
Restoring Your ADR Post Crisis
Re-building of ADR is much more correlated to the restoration of demand in the market and much less to do with the effect of price cutting during the crisis
Working with OTAs: The Indirect Distribution Dilemma
Overall results show benefits of participating with OTAs substantially outweigh the costs, resulting in clear and substantial boost to hotels’ bottom line
How to Evaluate Your Property’s Performance: From RevPar to CPOR and Beyond
The aim is to describe the main KPIs typically adopted by a hotel to support their business analysis, ranging from RevPAR, RevPAC, CPOR to NPS and beyond
Why RevPAR Increase Marketing Claims Can be BS
It makes sense to let algorithms do much of the price change and a half decent RMS should deliver. But the question is – by how much will my RevPAR go up?
What is Your Optimum Occupancy Percentage in This Staycation World?
Staycation is here to stay. Strong occupancy is here to stay but the question remains for us all… how much occupancy is too much?
How to Align Your Distribution and Marketing Strategies to Boost Revenue
Many hotels don’t include direct within their distribution cost calculations, but for most hotels their costs of direct are around 8%+ of distribution