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Hotels Should Copy Airline Revenue Management Techniques

Although hotels have practiced some of the most fundamental basics of revenue management throughout the ages, such as adjusting rates according to seasonal demand patterns and planned special events, it […]

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Demand Generation for hotels

Demand generation has always been important to hotels, why else have sales departments? NB: This is an anaylsis by Max Rayner, a partner at Hudson Crossing. But lately it has […]

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US Hotels Celebrate Summer with Sizzling RevPAR

Hotels in major North American markets are continuing to experience strong growth driven by increases in average daily rate (ADR) according to data from the July 2015 TravelClick North American […]

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The Role of the Guest in Total Hotel Revenue Management

For the past decade or more, when speaking about the future or a vision, revenue management has been focused on two terms: total hotel revenue management and customer, or guest, […]

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Hotels caught out by inflated Rugby World Cup expectations

UK hoteliers’ expectations of a Rugby World Cup booking bonanza appear to have evaporated in a situation reminiscent of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The rugby tournament organisers and […]

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End of French hotels’ price parity

Hotels in France are to be granted “unprecedented control” to dictate prices across all online channels from next month’s holiday peak period, it is being claimed. Price parity, which allows […]

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Regional hotel chains report mixed results in May

Regional hotel chains continued to experience mixed year-on-year results across the UK in May, according to the latest HotStats UK Chain Hotels Market Review.  According to the report, hotel chains […]

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Yielding room types and the power of open pricing

NB: This is an article by Marco Benvenuti Co-Founder of Duetto I still get plenty of questions about exactly what open pricing is and how it works. And more pointedly, […]

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Dubai’s Average Room Rate falls 10.8% in May

HotStats MENA Chain Hotels Market Review – May 2015 Hotel profits in Dubai and Jeddah continue to fall The combined effect of the falling Euro and stronger US Dollar continues […]

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GOPPAR, ARR and RevPAR up in Europe

HotStats European Chain Hotels Market Review – May 2015 Madrid and Prague hotels recorded increases in gross operating profit per available room (GOPPAR) of 12.8% and 28.8% respectively in May, […]

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