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U.S. Hotel Occupancy and RevPAR To Hit Record High In 2015

The U.S. lodging industry will continue to achieve very strong growth in rooms revenue per available room (RevPAR) during both 2015 and 2016 according to the recently released March 2015 […]

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Key Areas in Revenue Management discussed

Four areas for revenue professionals to focus on for the year ahead, according to the HSMAI APAC Revenue Advisory Board Distribution The distribution landscape is always evolving and 2015 has […]

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The Truth About Hotel Meta Search

Hotel marketing types love trends. Every day there is the same old story about a new thing that changes everything. It’s always a thing that, if the hotels would only start doing […]

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What Conventional Hospitality Businesses Can Learn from Airbnb’s Prowess

Since its inception in 2008, Airbnb has hosted 25 million guests across 190 countries in over a million host locations worldwide. Equipped with $475 million from their last round of […]

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Beyond Pricing seeks to boost revenue for property rentals

A few weeks ago Beyond Pricing gained some column inches for attracting seed funding of $1.5 million in a round led by Resolute Ventures. The startup, which launched last June and specialises […]

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Branded Hotel Guide to Generating Revenues Above-and-Beyond the Brand

Branded hotels are in a unique digital marketing predicament. On the one hand the brand is a marketing organization and can open doors and steer demand to the branded hotel […]

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The fight against the OTAs starts at check In

In any industry, a lack of competition can come with a decline in innovation and an increase in price. Without a larger field of competitors, there is nothing to incentivize […]

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Cornell Study Supports Strategic Price Positioning in European Hotels

A ten-year study of pricing and revenues in over 4,000 European hotels finds that pricing strategy drives revenue, when hotels are compared to their competitive set. The study, published by […]

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Bristol sees highest hotel price increase

Bristol saw hotel prices rise by 13% in 2014 compared with the year before – the biggest rise in the country. That’s according to the Hotel Price Index published by Hotels.com, […]

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The OTA duopoly: Priceline vs Expedia

Online Travel Agencies, better known as OTA, have been around for almost 20 years, so we really shouldn’t treat them as a novelty by now. Expedia was launched back in 1996 while Priceline […]

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