9 Essential Hotel KPIs to Optimize Your Upsell Marketing Performance
The hotel industry employs many unique key performance indicators. ADR (average daily rate), RevPAR (revenue per available room) and Occ% (occupancy) naturally come to mind. These metrics reflect the unique nature of our business, but their existence also drives our attention and actions. Watching your hotel’s KPIs translates into optimizing key activities to influence those KPIs positively. As the old saying goes, “what is not measured cannot be improved.” Hotel Upselling is Becoming More Important
TripAdvisor Plus: What Are the Advantages for Hotels?
TripAdvisor has recently launched a new service called TripAdvisor Plus, which operates on a subscription model, allowing customers to pay an annual membership fee in return for various member-only benefits, such as discounts on hotel rooms and exclusive perks. Additionally, the service now allows direct participation from hotels too. In this article, you will learn more about the service and the specific advantages for hotels that get involved. Table of Contents: What is TripAdvisor Plus?
What Forward-Looking Data is Essential for Hotels?
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: With historic data now less relevant as we move into post-pandemic recovery, what forward-looking data is a "must-have" for hotels? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Chaya Kowal - Director of Revenue Management, Potato Head Family Paulo Aragao - Revenue Management Professional Theresa Prins - Founder, Revenue Resolutions Andrew Wheal - Founder & Chief Techspert, Hospitality Tech Expert Patrick Wimble - Managing
How can Hotels get the Best ROI from their Marketing Budgets?
Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel With many marketing budgets facing cuts, how can hotels drive the best ROI possible? Our Marketing Expert Panel Susanne Williams - Performance and Revenue Director, Journey Hospitality Reshan Jayamanne - Digital Marketing & Sales Strategist, Bnb Optimized Andrew Kavanagh - Group Sales and Marketing Manager, FBD Hotels & Resorts Tamie Matthews - Revenue, Sales & Marketing Consultant, RevenYou Jolien Alferink -
Outsourcing Revenue Management: 4 Ways it Benefits Hotels
Revenue management is extremely important within the hotel industry because it enables owners to optimize their business operations and improve financial results. However, it also requires specific skills and knowledge, which means that it can be more effective to outsource revenue management to a third party that specializes in this area. In this article, you will learn more about revenue management and the benefits of outsourcing. Table of Contents: What Is Revenue Management? Why Is Revenue Management Important? What Is Outsourcing Revenue Management? Why Hotels Outsource Revenue Management Why Hotels Are Turning to Outsourcing? 4 Advantages of Outsourcing Revenue Management
5 Star Hotel Organizational Chart: Creating 5 Star Hotel Hierarchy
5 star hotel organizational chart design is an exciting part of the industry as a whole for a number of reasons. It's essentially a design methodology that can keep hotels focused on five star ratings. It's an important subject because charts take much of the subjectivity out of the rating system. People often stress over how various elements might feel, but most of them can be objectively quantified within charts. Obviously, ratings assume consistent service.
Hotel Organizational Structure: A Full Guide to Hotel Organization
Hotel organizational structure is the hierarchy through which decisions and actions are made within hotels. It can be thought of as a continual flow of communication within a strict hierarchal system that ensures message coherency. Hotel organization is an important element of the hospitality system in large part due to the industry's complexity. A hotel needs to accommodate the needs of many fast-paced interactions within a constantly changing customer base. In this article, you'll learn
How to Solve Hotel Staff Shortages and Keep Teams Motivated
Staffing issues are one of the main issues in the hospitality industry, and there are no quick or easy fixes for this problem. As hoteliers worldwide struggle to meet the rising guest demands despite reduced staff, it’s time to unveil some surprising truths about staff motivation. Keep reading to get
Metaverse Tourism: Overview, Benefits, Examples and More
The idea of the metaverse has existed since the 1990s and has become a more well-known concept recently as technology has advanced. This has opened up metaverse tourism opportunities, which businesses in the sector are keen to capitalize on. In this post, you will find details on the metaverse as
6 Easy Ways to Spruce Up Your Hotel’s Website
Have you ever seen a great deal online and hesitated once you reached the seller’s website? Most of us spend a lot of time on the Internet, and we develop a sense of which websites are legitimate and which aren’t. Most people are reluctant to spend their money on a