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Audit Your Hotel Rate Plans Before They Undermine Your Strategy

A rate plan isn’t just a “price.” It’s the building block of how you distribute and position rooms. If the blocks are unstable the strategy falls over

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What a GM Should Really Expect From Their Revenue Manager

A Revenue Manager does more than optimize rates. A good RM pushes you forward. A great RM does it without needing to be asked

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Is Your Rate Strategy Built for Market You Have or One You Want?

Wishful thinking is not a rate strategy. It’s a distraction. And in a market this dynamic, it’s one you can’t afford

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How to Spot the Warning Signs of a Broken Revenue Strategy

When topline performance starts to stagnate, it’s often not because of external conditions, it’s because the revenue strategy isn’t evolving with the market

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How to Build Segment-Specific Pricing That Actually Converts

Today’s guests don’t all book the same way. Which means one-size-fits-all pricing strategies are eroding conversion rates

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How to Raise Rates Without Losing Guests

The hesitation around raising rates usually comes from one of two places: fear of slowing down demand, or pressure to “follow the compset”

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Your Forecast Is Wrong – But Not for the Reason You Think

Stop blaming market volatility, stop leaning on last year and please stop trying to forecast your way into a budget that doesn’t reflect reality

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Why Your Pickup Curve Doesn’t Curve Anymore

Today, your pickup curve is a complete mess. In short, your pickup curve isn’t curving anymore – because guest behavior broke it

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Crunching the Numbers: Is Your Promo Really Profitable?

Here’s how to crunch the numbers before and after a promo to see if it actually worked – or just boosted volume at a cost

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How to Respond When Your Hotel Bookings Slow Down

Slashing rates across the board just because your bookings pickup is soft is like noticing one tire is low and deflating the other three to even it out

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