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man on a laptop with a credit card possibly booking a hotel room reflecting the importance for hoteliers to calculate their guest acquisition costs

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

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Metasearch: The Rate Parity Battleground for 2021

Ask a revenue manager why they lose sleep at night, and you might hear a few mentions of uncontracted OTAs and booking sites that pop up in metasearch

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9 New Hotel Rate Types For The Post-Covid Traveller

The pandemic has demanded that industry be creative with its rate offerings, promoting flexibility with direct bookings and a push towards personalization

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The Importance of Rate Parity for Hotel Websites

If your hotel is in rate parity, and guests are not able to book a lower rate, then there are no price incentives to drive them to an outside channel

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How Can Hoteliers Get a Solid Pricing Strategy as Recovery Volatility Persists

Learning from relevant data at hand is key; administer weeks of pricing patterns and test them. There is strong need to move from solely focusing on rates

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“Upselling” the Value of Investing in Revenue Management

Hotel owners whose priorities align with property-level management on value of investing in revenue management will thrive in boom years to come

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Hotel ADR – To Decrease or not to Decrease?

As the economic fallout of 2020 lingers over the sector, our ongoing research consistently reveals that the majority of Hoteliers expect to decrease ADR

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Muted Occupancy and Rate Thwarted European Hotel RevPAR Growth

Muted occupancy and rate thwarted RevPAR growth in the month, down 85% YOY to €15.50. For the year, RevPAR was recorded at €32.84, down 72.7% YOY

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CompSet Analysis and its Role: Hotel Management Practices

Sizing up the competition plays a major part in your hotel’s marketing strategy. Your competitors have just as much sway in shaping guest demand and expectations as you do, and […]

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If the Meerkats were fined £18m, what about the OTAs?

The competition watchdog, the CMA, fined Comparethemarket.com (home of those TV meerkats) £17.9 million last week. What heinous offence had Sergei and his cuddly friends committed to warrant such a hefty financial […]

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