14 Pricing Strategies to Increase Your Hotel Revenue
Maximizing revenue is a top priority for hotel operators, and achieving this goal often requires the right pricing strategy at the right time. Making room rate adjustments based on demand, customer segmentation, and other factors can be the key to overall business success. In this article, we offer insight into 14 pricing strategies that hotels can adopt in their revenue management strategy to increase the amount of revenue they generate. Table of Contents: What Is
How Successful Hoteliers Handle Pricing Strategies for The Recovery
Analyses showed that hotels with a solid revenue management strategy came out of the Covid-19 crisis better than hotels without. In this article, you’ll learn how successful hoteliers handle pricing strategies during the post-covid era, and how to deal with spillage, spoilage, overbooking, and overselling. Quick menu: Hotels With a Solid RM Strategy Came Out of the Covid-19 Crisis Well OTA Visibility Favors Those Already Visible A Deep Dive into Spillage, Spoilage, Overbooking, Oversell, Denials
Pricing Personalization & the Future of Hospitality
Pricing personalization allows hotels to move towards total profit optimization by combining the power of the guest profiles in your CRM with revenue management forecasting to deliver the right price to the right guest at the right time during the guest journey. Guests Have Increased Expectations for Personalization Personalization is an evolving topic within the hospitality industry, from technology and guest perspectives. Over the last few years, especially with the influx of online shopping, guests
Pricing Your Rooms in 2022 – Getting The Best Results in Times of Uncertainty
Cast your minds back to midnight on new years eve. You probably weren’t thinking about your room pricing. But if you had been, would you have felt confident about how demand will play out this year? How much would you bet on being right? If you are in charge of setting prices for a hotel, then a lot of money can depend on not getting it wrong. Usually, given the data from previous years, you
An Analyze of How Hoteliers Handled Revenue Management During the Pandemic
Using past data to predict future revenue during a pandemic might seem counterintuitive to many hoteliers. After all, hotel revenue management is always a complex science. How can you predict anything during a pandemic? In this article, you’ll learn how fellow hoteliers dealt with the Corona pandemic. Three Different Paths During the Pandemic As a hotelier, you’ve faced an unusual past year, and you’ve had to make difficult choices. As revenue optimization experts, we’ve seen
How Can Revenue Management Collaborate with Sales & Marketing Teams?
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: For best collaboration, should Revenue Management fall under Sales & Marketing – or vice versa? Should they be separate departments on the same level of the hotel hierarchy? Or one single department? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Chaya Kowal - Director of Revenue Management, Potato Head Family Theresa Prins - Founder, Revenue Resolutions Paulo Aragao - Revenue Management Professional Nikhil Roy
Revenue Management Podcasts; Top 10 Podcasts for Hotel Managers
Revenue management podcasts can be a goldmine of information. They're increasingly popular with professionals across various industries, especially the hotel industry. Podcasts on revenue management topics are the ideal way to stay informed about the latest developments and discover new strategies. In this article, you'll discover some of the best podcasts. Table of Contents: What Is the Hotel Industry? What Is a Revenue Management Podcast? Why Is It Beneficial to Follow Hotel Revenue Management Podcasts?
How Hotels Can Tackle Inflation and Boost Profitability
After a strong end to 2022 - with European hotel performance reaching 2019 levels - January 2023 saw energy costs peak in many countries. Coupled with a fall in demand, the increased expenses of hotel operations led to a fall in. Although there is evidence of recovery into Spring/Summer, hoteliers
How Hotels Can Combine Revenue Management and CRO?
One of the best and most common definitions of Revenue Management is “Selling the Right Room to the Right Client at the Right Moment at the Right Price in the Right Distribution Channel with the best commission efficiency”. Both Revenue Management and Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) are data-driven, but they
Beyond Bookings: How Hotel Marketing Drives Revenue Beyond the Reservation
Today, marketing is no longer an optional extra for any business, and the hospitality industry is no exception. While some might view marketing as simply crafting social media posts and eye-catching visuals, the truth is that there are many other aspects to marketing, and all of them are crucial for
How Hotel Automation Increases Early Check-in & Late Checkout Revenue
When you hear the word automation, it may conjure up images of a future where artificial intelligence and robots take over jobs. The reality, however, is much more nuanced. The notion of automation generally remains ossified in this physical, machine-replace-labour frame and is perceived as another step toward automation-led obsolescence.
How Has Artificial Intelligence Impacted Revenue Management Roles and Systems So Far?
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: Some roles are shrinking due to Artificial Intelligence. How have revenue management roles and systems been affected to date? (Question by Oleksii Kapichin) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Niko Krauseneck - Founder, RevenueRebel Tamie Matthews -
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