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A Day in the Life of a Parking Revenue Manager

As a Revenue Manager are you leveraging RM to optimize your parking business? How many pricing decisions do you make per day, and how much time do you have left for strategic thinking?

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Playing to Win: Why Your Hotel Needs a Proactive Sales Strategy

Proactive selling allows you to forecast group business more accurately. This is the fuel that feeds your revenue management ecosystem and ultimately leads to stronger performance by your hotel.

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Is Black Friday Worth It? We Take an In-depth Look

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 […]

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How Will 2020 Shape Up For Hotels – My Top Ten Predictions

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.

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SHPM: The Hidden System by Expedia to Undercut Hotel Rates

Hidden system, meaning, none of us is supposed to be knowing about it. Google it: I bet, you won’t find a word. NB: This is an article from Direct Your […]

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End of Last Room Availability for Profit Gain

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.

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Hotel 101: What Is GOPPAR and Why Does It Matter?

For hotels, the GOPPAR benchmarking metric bridges the gap between what your hotel makes and how much you’re putting into operations. You can use it to build a detailed hotel operational strategy.

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Total Revenue Forecasting – Sunny with a Chance of Profits

Whether it’s time to make hay while the sun shines or to batten down the hatches when storm clouds are on the horizon, you’ll always be better prepared with total revenue forecasting.

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Net Revenue, and Now What?

Every time the team gets a sense where they stand with their Net Revenue KPI’s the same question pops up all over again. And now what? Here are 5 ‘Now What’ actions you can take.

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U.S. GOPPAR Turns Negative After Recent Gains

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.

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