How Guest Experience Drives Hotel Revenue (and How to Maximize It)
From discovering your hotel to booking a room, from checking in to ordering room service — the guest experience isn’t a set of isolated touchpoints. It’s a journey. One that shapes how your brand is perceived and directly impacts your bottom line. Turning Happy Guests into Higher Profits The connection between guest satisfaction and revenue isn’t just intuitive — it’s proven. Hotels that prioritize guest experience consistently see higher ADR, occupancy, and RevPAR. In fact,
Using Financial Data to Take Your Hotel’s Profit Game to the Next Level
In hospitality, revenue is only half the story: profitability is what truly matters. And to maximize profitability, finance analytics is the game-changer. Understanding the flow of revenue, cost structures, and operational efficiencies allows hoteliers to make smarter, data-driven decisions. With fixed costs dominating the industry, tracking the right financial metrics (like flow-through and GOPPAR) can mean the difference between thriving and just surviving. How Financial Data Can Take Your Hotel's Profits to the Next Level
How do Hotel Review Scores impact Pricing Strategies?
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: Great hotel reviews have a powerful influence on guests when deciding to book. How does a hotel’s review score impact its pricing strategy? (Question proposed by Massimiliano Terzulli) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Theresa Prins - Founder, Revenue Resolutions Sandra Gannon - Commercial Consultant, Revenue Puzzle Nikhil Roy - Revenue & Pricing Manager, Key Hospitality B.V. Krunal Shah - Cluster Director
How Cancellation Policies Impact Hotel Revenue and Demand
Cancellations are part of hotel life, but the stress they create doesn't have to be. The real challenge is knowing how to set a policy that protects revenue without pushing guests away. The right cancellation terms influence bookings, guest confidence, pricing power, and even your market position. In this article, you'll learn how smart cancellation policies help hotels stay competitive, maintain steady revenue, and manage demand more effectively, even when guests change their plans. What
Five Ways Lodging Businesses can Prepare for 2023
2022 brought unique challenges for lodging businesses as demand strengthened post-pandemic and ‘revenge travel’ soared. As labor shortages reached all-time highs and hotels struggled to fill roles, management was required to face a significant increase in demand with limited resources. The industry responded to these challenges and ended the year exceeding pre-pandemic RevPar. Hoteliers adopted technology to help fill the labor gaps and learned they could do more with less. Guests became accustomed to using
How do Reputation Scores and Revenue Management Influence each other?
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What are the links between hotel reputation scores and revenue management? How do they influence each other? (Question proposed by Pablo Torres)Â Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Pablo Torres - Director Of Sales Marketing, Alannia Resorts Chaya Kowal - Director of Revenue Management, Potato Head Family Dermot Herlihy - Owner, Dynamic Hospitality Consulting Ricardo Sereno - Revenue Manager, Altis Hotels
Top Tips for Leveraging Tiktok to Attract and Engage with Guests
Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel How can hotels leverage Tiktok (boasting 1.7 billion active users in 2023) to engage with and attract guests? In your opinion, which strategies can they apply, and what are the best practices? Our Marketing Expert Panel Luminita Mardale - Director Of Marketing And Business Development, Vienna House Thom de Graaf - Online Marketing Specialist, Orange Hotel Marketing Moriya Rockman - Chief
Guest Expectations for Pre-Stay Digital Experiences by Hotel Category
Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel How do guest expectations of the pre-stay digital experience differ between low budget and high-end properties? How do their tech expectations differ during their stay? (Question by Nicole Sideris.)Â Our Marketing Expert Panel Tamie Matthews
Guest Communication Tips to Improve Hotel Guest Engagement
Guest engagement has never been so important. As we move forward through the next couple of years, travelers will look for peace of mind when planning their trips. Hotels need to clearly communicate answers to questions, provide tailored offers, and be accessible to guests throughout the guest journey. Guest communication
Guest Communications: Gold Standards, Key Challenges, and the AI
Time and effort going into answering guest queries should not be underestimated. How to optimize the process to benefit your guests and your staff? This article explores how hotel tech solutions powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can help you do that. Still, first, it outlines the reasons behind the high
Streamlining Group Bookings: Top 8 Insights on How Automation Boosts Hotel Success
Group accommodation bookings have always been a significant yet underutilized revenue stream for hotels. Representing 30-40% of total net revenue for many business hotels, group bookings also drive ancillary income through food, beverage, and event services, which often yield higher profit margins than room sales alone. Yet, despite their potential,
Greeting and Welcoming Guests: How to Make a Great First Impression
Greeting and welcoming guests includes everything from a verbal introduction to providing a written welcome message. Your greeting may also involve leaving gifts, offering useful information and answering questions. The importance of these initial interactions is difficult to overstate because guests will often make snap judgments based on them. You
Google Travel Insights: Tools & Data Trends for The Hospitality & Travel Industry
The launch of the Google Travel Insights platform is intended to help those in the travel industry by providing a single location to access important market data, industry insights, and relevant tools. In this article, you can learn more about the service and the numerous ways it can help travel