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) 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
The Power of Lean Revenue Management; Sophisticated But Not Complex
The global pandemic has sped up a trend in revenue operations (RevOps) throughout the business world. Forrester recently published a study that found that many companies are moving towards more centralized RevOps. They’ve understood that revenue is more than an outcome and instead of a result of a business process where commercial teams come together to achieve their goals. Comprehensive RM Standards are Essential for Both Short & Long-Term Success The Forrester study clarifies that
Late Check-Out Hotel Strategies: A Comprehensive Guide for Hoteliers
Late check-out hotel strategies are based on allowing guests to extend their stay beyond the standard check-out time. Hotels will often charge guests extra for the option of checking out late. These strategies are important for the guest experience because they add an extra level of convenience. In addition, late check-out can be important for hotels because it provides an extra revenue stream and can boost positive feedback. In this article, you can read all
Late Check-In Hotel Guide: Key Strategies for Hoteliers
A late check-in hotel offers short-term accommodation, with the option for guests to arrive later than the standard check-in time. These hotels need to develop robust policies and strategies around the check-in process. Late check-ins are important because guests want flexibility. The option to check in at a time that suits them can make a positive first impression, while late check-ins can also serve as an extra revenue stream for hotels. In this article, you
Five Rate Mistakes in Revenue Management and How You Can Solve Them
Ask any hotel staffer not directly involved in revenue management about the daily tasks of a revenue manager, and they'll likely suggest it's all about 'setting' or 'raising rates.' While these activities are indeed crucial, they often eclipse the comprehensive analysis that underpins each pricing decision. Five Rate Mistakes in Revenue Management and How You Can Solve Them As a revenue manager, focusing entirely on pricing can inadvertently lead your hotel off course, resulting in
Pushing Profit Beyond the Guest Room in 2021
Hoteliers are under unforeseen pressure to make magic happen in the new year and get their profitability back on track. Three words: “Total Profit Optimisation.” You’ve likely heard them spoken before in hushed whispers. It’s the ever-elusive and seemingly unattainable holy grail of hotel revenue leadership. Maximising Your Business Revenues by Total Profit Optimisation Total profit optimisation considers costs associated with acquiring and servicing every hotel reservation and the profit of each revenue stream associated
What are the Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Hotel Revenue Management?
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What are the advantages and disadvantages to outsourcing revenue management? Is there a difference depending on hotel / property type? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Diego Fernández Pérez De Ponga - Director of Revenue Management, Palladium Hotel Group Dermot Hrlihy - Owner, Dynamic Hospitality Consulting Ricardo Sereno - Revenue Manager, Altis Hotels Dr. Betsy Stringam-Bender - Professor of Hotels & Resorts,
5 Reasons to Choose a Hospitality-Focused BI Solution for Your Hotel
As a hotelier, making sense of your data is not a simple task. It often involves consolidating information across multiple systems to understand guest preferences, improve the financial health of your business, and proactively plan for the future. Hospitality-Focused BI Tools vs. Generic Options Business intelligence (BI) software has become
Guest Expectations in 2024: 8 Trends You Should Be Aware of
As time passes and technology keeps evolving, we enter into a new era of guest expectations. It's no longer enough to simply meet their needs, and the challenge now lies in exceeding them. In this dynamic landscape, where every guest is an insightful traveler armed with high expectations, how can
Top 3 Goals for Independent Properties and Strategies for Success
They say after the storm comes a calm. However, the storm has yet to pass in the hospitality industry. While seeing the light again is possible, the industry still navigates in turbulent waters. Why? With a fierce competition of over 17.5 million guestrooms in 187,000 hotels (1) worldwide, independent hotels
5 Reasons You Can Benefit From a Freelancer Revenue Manager
Revenue management in the hotel industry involves optimizing the price and availability of rooms and services based on analytics that predict consumer behavior to maximize revenue. It can be an extremely effective discipline, but specialist knowledge is required to make the most of it. For this reason, many hotel managers
Forward-Looking Demand Data: The Secret to Optimising Revenue in Challenging Times
Name an area of life or work that the pandemic didn’t impact. It’s not easy to find one, is it? Especially in the hospitality industry, it feels like hardly anything is as it was before COVID. However, there’s one thing that has dramatically gained importance. It’s your ability as a
Forward-Looking Data to Understand Guest Behavior and Upcoming Trends
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What Forward-Looking Data Should Hotels Use to Understand Guest Behavior and Upcoming Trends? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Nikolas Hall - Principal Owner, N. Hall Consulting Chaya Kowal- Cluster Director Of Revenue Management, Potato Head Family