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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

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Group Business, Threat or Opportunity: Simple Group Displacement Model

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

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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

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Revenue Management Alone Cannot Avert a Crisis But it Can Help

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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