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Hotels Crisis Planning: Best Practices in Revenue Management and MarComms

As many hotel revenue managers learned the hard way during past economic downturns, dropping rates during times of crisis can greatly affect your RevPAR

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Revenue Science vs. Groundhogs – Forecasting True Parking Demand

Lucky for the parking industry, you don’t need to be trapped in a time loop to discover the power behind true demand forecasting

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Hotels Scrape Out Profit Growth in January Amid Coronavirus Concern

U.S. hotels eked out 0.6% y-o-y GOPPAR increase in January, but as the scope of the coronavirus becomes clearer, subsequent months could put pressure on both top and bottomline growth

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Coronavirus – Now is Not The Time to Panic and Cut Rates

Coronavirus – Now is Not The Time to Panic and Cut Rates

There is no doubt we are in a time of huge uncertainty and the immediate reaction is to drop rates, but my advice is don’t. Reducing rates does not stimulate demand as proven time and time again

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There is a Better Revenue Generating Alternative to the Controversial Resort Fee

Are partitioned prices really a fair practice in an industry that prides itself on great hospitality and service? Is there a better way to generate revenue, without compromising the guest relationship?

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UK Hotels Profit Shrink a Continuance of 2019

UK hotels got off to a rough 2020 start, registering a y-o-y drop in profit, which was illustrative of 2019, as well. For full-year 2019, UK hotels recorded a 0.2% decline in GOPPAR over the year prior

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The Last Step(s) Towards Personalization

Many hoteliers have also included personalization as a key component in their global strategy. This translated into actions taken across the customer journey which, in turn, drove revenue

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How Bad Will It Get for Airlines When Coronavirus Hits the U.S.?

Unless something changes with how the illness spreads, Americans will freak out, and U.S airlines will struggle to fill seats, at any price. They all can probably survive but profits should take a dive

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Revenue, Profit Up at European Hotels to Start Year

It was a good start of the year for hotels in Mainland Europe. On the back of the positive results in the last quarter of 2019, profit per available room saw a 5.7% y-o-y increase in January 2020

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Top 3 Rate Disparity Cases Acceptable to a Revenue Manager

With end-to-end rate integrity using analytics to track travel sellers’ flows, hotels ensure transparency across sales and distribution channels, including both accredited and unaccredited OTAs

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