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How Hotels can Navigate a Demand Shock During a Crisis
A demand shock in the travel industry can come from many sources; a financial crisis, health crisis, or political crisis. And as the term suggests, they often can’t be predicted
Group Business, Threat or Opportunity: Simple Group Displacement Model
Each time we do a group quote we must evaluate the impact this has on the date of stay in the booking time, but also the selling of remaining capacity to the exclusion of other profitable segments
How To Increase Hotel Revenue in Low Season
Hotel low season revenue has long been considered to simply be an unfortunate fact of the industry. It brings less demand and, therefore, lower revenues too
Revenue Management Alone Cannot Avert a Crisis, But it Can Help
Revenue Management itself does not generate additional demand in the market, but it helps to manage existing demand in the best way and achieve the highest possible revenue share
How Independent Hotels can Access Corporate Hotel Programmes
It’s that time of the year for hoteliers to prepare for the forthcoming corporate contracting season. For independent hotels, we need to focus on our strategy
After Watching The Credit Bubble Implode In 2008, I Worry For Hotels
So, whilst new investment in a growing industry is a good thing, over-investment is destructive. And the conditions in hotels globally have been perfect for over-investment
Is Bleisure Still a Thing? Spoiler Alert: It Definitely Still Is
Bleisure travelers tend to be greater spenders during their “micro-vacations”. With their company picking up the bill they can spend more on in-hotel expenses than a typical guest might
Benchmarking 101: Parking Into Profit
Benchmarking must go much deeper than revenue figures. By getting a handle on operational data, a hotelier can determine how profitable their parking operations are
Rate Integrity: A Key Way to Increase Direct Bookings
Fixing revenue leakage is not just maintaining parity. The driving force is brand integrity and ability to change rates in-sync with market dynamics. Rate integrity aims to balance consistency and flexibility
Podcast: Oaky and Staah talk Hyper Personalisation
We discuss the topic of Hyper Personalisation, how this extends personalisation, which we are all familiar with, and clarify how this should not to be confused with segmentation