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After the consumer madness and mayhem of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it’s a good time to look back on whether the results were as we expected or whether we […]

They say all good Revenue Managers carry two things: a calculator to crunch the numbers and a crystal ball to predict the future. Here is my views on how the hotel industry will change in 2020.

We can concentrate on the most tactical part, the operational part of the data analysis that will lead us to the definition of market positioning to conclude again on the benchmarking strategic analysis.

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Hotels fought for the rate parity abolition but on the inventory side, hotels are forced to level the playing field due to the Last & Entry Room Availability rules.

Two consecutive months of profit gain were spoiled as the start of the fourth quarter brought with it a year-over-year downturn in GOPPAR for U.S. hotels.

For the second consecutive month, hotels in the MENA region recorded a y-o-y rise in profit, a positive sign for a region where GOPPAR declines had previously abounded.

Mainland Europe hotels had a positive start to the last quarter. Strong top line drove the 1.2% YOY GOPPAR increase. A combination of occupancy and average rate saw a 1.5% increase in RevPAR.

GOPPAR gives greater insight into the actual performance of a hotel than the most commonly used RevPAR as it considers revenues generated but also operational costs related to such revenues

The 5.3% YOY drop in GOPPAR in October was only surpassed by the 9.4% plunge recorded by hotels in April, and marks the seventh month in the year to record a YOY contraction in profits.