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How Should Hotels Decide on their Online Platform Listings?

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: There is a growing need for hotels to be listed on multiple online platforms. What should Revenue Managers consider when deciding on where/where not to list? (Question proposed by Theresa Prins)  Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Pablo Torres - Hotel Consultant, TSA Solutions Nikolas Hall - Owner, H. Hall Consulting Fabian Bartnick - Founder, Infinito Tanya Hadwick - Group Revenue

Uncovering the Importance of Pickup and Pace in Revenue Management

As a revenue manager, one of your essential daily inquiries is, "What was yesterday's pickup?" It's a question that sets the tone for your day and helps you make informed decisions about selling the right room, to the right guest, at the right time, at the right price. Setting the correct room price is undoubtedly the cornerstone of revenue management, how you arrive at the optimal price point requires a considerable amount of context, of

Master Pick-up Analytics: Learn Why & How They Elevate Your Hotel

Pick-up analytics are essential for hotels to forecast demand, optimize pricing strategies, manage inventory, marketing, and improve revenue management. In this article, we will dive into the world of Pick-up Analytics. You will learn what Pick-up Analytics is and how to use it to help your hotel optimize performance. What is Pick-up Analytics? In short, it is important to analyze the rate at which your hotel rooms are booked over a certain period. Pick-up Analytics

Unleashing Data for Personalized Hotel Stays

Hotels are moving from traditional transactional models to relationship-focused approaches, driven by guests’ desire for personalized experiences and seamless interactions. Unleashing data for personalized hotel stays has become the key to unlocking these enhanced guest experiences. Modern technology, especially mobile and cloud-based solutions, facilitates this transformation. Hotel owners, managers, and operators understand that guests’ expectations constantly evolve. Building lasting relationships rather than merely completing transactions is vital to meet these expectations.  Understanding Changing Guest Expectations

Revenue Management System: Not Just for Booms, but for Bumps Too

When a big event is on the horizon, expectations run high. You plan for full occupancy, increase your rates, and prepare your team. But what happens when the bookings don’t come as expected? That’s when a revenue management system becomes more than a nice-to-have. In this article, we’ll explore how a revenue management system (RMS) helps hoteliers navigate that gap between forecast and reality, using real examples from the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel

Don’t Open Your New Hotel Without a Revenue Management System

Hotel owners, developers, asset managers, and other stakeholders charged with successfully launching a new hotel property—in a marketplace that may already be quite competitive—know they’ll need more than attractive features and amenities that entice and cultivate a loyal customer base. As the industry adapts to a post-pandemic world, the team behind a new property also must assess key behind-the-front-desk requirements - paramount being its approach to revenue management. For those about to launch a new

Revenue Management System (RMS): What Are the Advantages?

A revenue management system is a software solution that allows hospitality brands to carry out various revenue management activities. For instance, the software makes it easier to forecast changes in demand and optimize pricing. Revenue management systems provide hotels and similar businesses with a number of major advantages, including improved accuracy and efficiency. It's important for business leaders to understand these advantages and invest in a high-quality solution that will provide the key benefits. In

5 Digital Strategies to Attract Remote Workers to Your Hotel

As companies worldwide shift their standards to allow for more remote roles and hybrid working models, the concept of the ideal workplace has become much more subjective. With this increased flexible work environment, people are embracing the digital nomad lifestyle. This offers the ability to log in from anywhere in

How to Attract Different Segments Through a Diverse Distribution Strategy

With so many ways to reach potential guests, developing an effective distribution strategy is more important than ever. Leisure demand is slowing down after years of exponential growth post-pandemic, while other segments, namely international, corporate, and group travel, are starting to pick up again. For hotels seeking to increase their

How the Right Hotel Data Can Transform Your Property

Hospitality is awash with data. From pricing analysis to targeted marketing, from occupancy rates to guest engagement, every hotelier knows that metrics are important – but how do you sort the interesting from the invaluable? What to Do with the Hotel Data? The sheer amount of data can be daunting,

How Revenue Leaders Can Generate New Business

Hospitality revenue management teams have long been expected to manage demand. But for the hospitality industry's new climate in 2021 and beyond, revenue leaders will need to do more than manage demand—and now it’s up to hoteliers to find creative ways to align their marketing and revenue teams to generate

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