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
Choosing the Right Target Market for a Restaurant To Ensure Success
Marketing serves an incredibly important purpose for restaurants because it is the main way to establish brand recognition, attract customers and build a reputation. Nevertheless, marketing needs to be strategic, and selecting the right target market for restaurant advertising and marketing activities is essential. In this article, you can learn about market segmentation and how to pinpoint the right market segment to focus efforts on. Table of Contents: What is the Restaurant Industry? What is
Expedia TAAP Login Tips for Travel Agents for More Bookings
An Expedia TAAP login provides access to the Expedia Travel Agent Affiliate Program, or Expedia TAAP for short. This program offers travel agents worldwide access to Expedia's inventory data, including hotel room availability and live room rates. As a result, offline travel agents can book travel products on behalf of their customers and earn a commission on sales. In this article, you can learn how to generate more bookings using this service. Table of Contents:
The little-known Housekeeping Data That Can Boost Your Hotel Business
Are you measuring housekeeping data? You should. Your guests or the activities drive the housekeeping services it takes to run the property. After all, a room must be cleaned because someone slept in it. So, to understand your property's operations, how costs are created, and how to improve, you need to dive deeper into the catalysts triggering your services. And here's where the housekeeping data comes in. So, let's talk about how housekeeping performance data
What to Expect on an Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour
For many travelers, standing face-to-face with Mount Everest is the ultimate bucket list dream. But trekking for days through rugged terrain and high altitudes isn't practical for everyone. That's where an Everest Base Camp helicopter tour comes in. In just a few hours, you can soar above the Himalayas, land near the world's tallest peak, and witness breathtaking views. This guide explains what to expect, from altitude and key stops to safety and costs, so you're fully prepared for this once-in-a-lifetime experience. Let's take a look at what's in store for you above the clouds. What is an Everest Base
Breaking the Silos: Marrying Commercial and Finance Analytics for the Greater Good of Everyone
In today’s complex and competitive hospitality environment, complacency is not an option. Data-driven decision-making is essential for the success of your business. In most organizations commercial analytics are the domain of sales, marketing and particularly revenue management. Financial data is leveraged by Accounting and Finance teams focusing on costs, profitability and overall financial health. In this article you’ll learn why and how these types of data should be leveraged together by both Finance and Commercial
The Myopic Pursuit of Channel ROAS: How to Avoid this Hotel Industry Pitfall
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, the hotel industry finds itself at a crossroads. While embracing the digital revolution, many hoteliers have fallen into a trap that threatens to undermine their marketing efforts; an obsessive focus on individual channel return on ad spend (ROAS). This fixation, while seemingly logical, is creating a significant disconnect in the industry's approach to customer acquisition and retention, ultimately hampering growth and missing opportunities for deeper customer engagement. The
Revenue Management vs Yield Management
Within the hotel industry, revenue and yield management are two of the most useful tools available to managers, allowing them to maximize the money they make from guests. Although the two concepts are closely linked and share a lot of similarities, there are some important differences too. In this blog
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
The Most Used Revenue Management KPIs for Hotels
A key performance indicator can provide revenue managers and hotel owners with valuable information about their business performance. This subsequently has the benefit of allowing them to implement a revenue management strategy so that they can maximize financial business results. In this post, we look at some of the most