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Enhanced Loyalty : What Hotels Can Learn from Casinos

For many properties, capturing total guest value (TGV) has many hurdles. Property Management Systems that don’t capture adequate data, disparate reporting systems and a simple lack of customer data from […]

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Planet ‘total offer’: the coming revolution in airline merchandising

When three global technology trends combine with two industry-specific trends, can the planets align to transform the online relationship between airline and travellers? For decades, airlines have worked to perfect […]

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Strong Hotel Revenue Growth Predicted for Asia-Pacific

Cautiously optimistic hoteliers indicate reliance on OTAs and emergence of Airbnb are concerns. NB: This is an article from IDeaS A survey of 100 leading hospitality industry professionals from across […]

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The Checklist for Revenue Management Success

Today, a state-of-the-art hotel revenue management solution is capable of generating tens of thousands of optimal pricing decisions on a daily basis. There is reason to believe that capabilities will […]

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Thinking In Terms of “Total Revenue Management”

Over the last 10 years, revenue management has gone from being an undertaking with uncertain financial upside potential to a strategic imperative with highly predictable revenue outcomes. NB: This is […]

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4 Ways to Negate Effects of New OTA Accounting Standards

Effective January 1, 2018, several new accounting standards became mandatory for the hospitality industry in the U.S. The most important of these standards concerns revenue recognition, and more concretely how […]

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The Mobile Booking Trends of Luxury Hotels

Global smartphone usage topped 2.3bn in 2017. Based on an estimated world population of 7.6bn, that’s over 1 in 3 people who now own one. Usage figures continue to grow […]

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3 Short Case Studies in Total Revenue Management Algorithms

One of the arguments I continually make in this blog is that many Total Revenue Management efforts are being thwarted by the fact that managers are using the wrong measures […]

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Lawmakers Take Aim at Airfare Pricing, Transparency

For years, airlines have been known to cling to outdated and even antiquated technology, afraid that upgrading their tech infrastructure could lead to the catastrophic downages that have affected most […]

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5 revenue management questions independent hoteliers should ask

Advanced revenue management systems, powered by machine learning, are used by leading hotel brands around the world. NB: This is an article by Tracy Dong, Lead Advisor APAC at IDeaS […]

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