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The True Essence of Hotel Revenue Management

In 1972, an employee of British Overseas Airways Corporation by the name of Ken Littlewood provided the genesis of what has become today’s revenue management (RM) discipline. NB: This is […]

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Cloud Based PMS: The Ultimate Revenue Generator In Modern Hotel Operations

More and more hotels are making the switch from traditional or legacy systems to a cloud-based hotel PMS. In the past, traditional hotel PMS systems met the needs of hoteliers […]

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What’s Really Happening at TripAdvisor? 3 Questions We Can’t Answer…

Since the beginning of 2018, we have been noticing some very odd behavior from the TripAdvisor results, customer service response time, sales rep strategies, and overall communication. What is most […]

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Boost your hotel revenue with better online reputation management

Gone are the days of planning a trip to a new city and choosing where to stay based on personal recommendations or a guide book. In a connected world, it […]

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Capture the Best Hotel Data to Drive Ancillary Revenues

“I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” –Sir […]

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Can I stop OTAs from displaying wholesale rates?

It looks like Expedia could be formalizing their practice of displaying third-party rates alongside directly-contracted rates from hotels. When we first covered this back in December 2017, it seemed as […]

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5 intelligent pricing strategies for your B&B

Setting rates and pricing at your B&B cannot be random and unstructured. NB: This is an article from Little Hotelier Recognising the importance of revenue management, you need to have […]

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Secret to Maximizing Ancillary Revenues to Boost Hotel Profits

While it’s obvious that selling hotel rooms provides the primary source of income for hoteliers, an EyeforTravel report, Ancillary Revenues in the Hospitality Industry, revealed that nearly one third of […]

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Hotstats Hotels Performance: MENA, Europe, UK and US (February 2018)

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA The positive start to the year for hotels in the Middle East & Africa was short lived as profit per room fell by 7.8% in February, […]

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Introducing market share index numbers for MICE business

Introducing market share index numbers for MICE business

I don’t want to claim that I’m the first one to address this subject. But, from my research I can conclude that there are few officially accepted “meeting, incentives, conference, […]

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