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Metrics align to support Japan’s hotel growth

Overall fundamentals look good for Japan, and most people in the industry expect strong performance ahead. Most main stakeholders in the Japanese hospitality industry remain positive about market conditions across […]

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PKF: Historic Hotels Continue Strong Performance

The outlook for the U.S. lodging industry, particularly historic hotels, continues to show extremely strong performance, according to PKF Hospitality Research. For the second consecutive year, PKF Hospitality Research, a […]

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AccorHotels reports 2.4% revenue growth in Q3

The group’s latest financial report for the third quarter of the year said that, on a like-for-like basis, revenue was up 3.4%. Growth was driven by “favourable” business activity in […]

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Optimizing Differently to Improve Revenue Performance

Optimizing Online Distribution The ever changing distribution landscape can be challenging to maneuver. Costly connectivity solutions often result in some degree of manual management of varied channels, which is time […]

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Lodging Forecast 2016

For the past several years we have put out our lodging forecast for 2016 at the beginning of Q4 as we’ve had time to analyze the data and hear from […]

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Rugby World Cup boosts RevPAR

The opening weekend of the Rugby World Cup provided a boost to hotels in the host cities, which reported a ‘significant’ growth in revenue per available room (RevPAR). According to […]

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Effect of TripAdvisor Reviews on Bookings

While we know that travel reviews influence traveler decisions—95% of travelers report using travel reviews regularly to make booking decisions*—the impact of reviews on hotels goes much further than just […]

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Advance Booking Uptick is Welcome News

As the fall season comes into full swing, hotels in major North American markets are experiencing an improved advance booking pace, as well as healthy increases in both transient (individual […]

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Franc fumbles affect hotels in Switzerland

A look at STR Global data year-to-date July reveals that Switzerland’s hotels overall occupancy rate has not changed compared to the same period last year. The level could be maintained […]

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Why booking on Google is bad for hotels

Following the lead of Kayak.com, which has turned itself into a meta-OTA-type of a service for quite some time now, TripAdvisor rolled out their “Instant Book” feature over the past […]

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