7 Hotel Revenue Management Myths Costing You Money
Every day, in conversations with hoteliers like you, we hear the same revenue beliefs pop up. Old habits and assumptions that quietly drain profits, cost bookings, and steal the hours you'd rather spend delighting guests. It's time to change that. In this article, you'll learn seven of the most common misconceptions in revenue management and how to replace them with better strategies to boost RevPAR, set rates with confidence, and win back time for what
Food and Beverage Analytics Driving Hotel Profitability Growth
In lifestyle and full-service hotels, Food and Beverage (F&B) can generate 40–50% of total revenue. Sustaining profitability means attracting and retaining high-value guests, boosting in-house spending, ensuring satisfaction, and controlling costs. Yet data silos make this difficult, with PMS, POS, and finance systems often disconnected. While hotels focus on room revenue, F&B is equally essential, especially in resorts and lifestyle properties. In this article, you’ll learn strategies and tools to optimize F&B performance and profitability.
AI in Hospitality: New Trends in Booking Behavior and Distribution
What did you think when ChatGPT first came out? Maybe you were in the “nice, but useless gadget” camp. Or did you immediately see it as a powerful tool that will shake up our industry? The latter has proven true. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have only been available for a short time. But you can already see an impact in many areas of the hospitality industry. That goes for both hotels and travelers. Let’s look
How to Optimize Your Hotel Email Database: Quality Over Quantity
Email marketing is one of the most powerful tools hotels can use to stay connected with guests and drive bookings. But having a huge list of email addresses isn’t always a good thing. In this article, we’ll explore why quality matters more than quantity, how poor list hygiene can hurt your results, and what steps hotels can take to keep databases healthy and effective. The Hidden Cost of a Big List Tempted by big audiences
How Can Connected Hotel Systems Enable Data-Driven Revenue?
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: How can hotels improve (or begin) their PMS, RMS, CRM and POS integrations, and how does a connected tech stack enable smarter, data-driven revenue management? (Proposed by Chaya Kowal.) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Tamie Matthews - Revenue, Sales & Marketing Consultant, RevenYou Massimiliano Terzulli - Revenue Management Consultant, Franco Grasso Revenue Team Mariska van Heemskerk - Owner, Revenue Management Works Tanya Hadwick - Group Revenue & Yield Leader, SunSwept Resorts Ask Our Panel a Question Join Our Expert Panel "In
Hotel Trends: Discover The Latest Hotel Industry Trends for 2026
Owners and marketers need to keep pace with the latest hotel trends because new technology, shifting social attitudes, demographic changes, and emerging economic realities fundamentally alter how hotels and their customers do business. In this article, you can learn more about the latest hotel industry trends for 2026. Table of Contents: The Importance of Staying Up-to-Date With Hotel Trends Understanding the Factors Driving the Main Hotel Trends Emerging Technology Lifestyle Changes 21 Important Hotel Trends
How Luxury Hotels Use Technology to Elevate Comfort and Convenience
The hospitality industry has always been about anticipating needs before guests even realize they have them. But today's luxury hotels have taken this art to an entirely new level, weaving technology so seamlessly into the guest experience that it feels less like innovation and more like intuition. Walk into a top-tier property now, and you'll find yourself in spaces that respond to your preferences, remember your habits, and somehow manage to feel both cutting-edge and
Hospitality in 2026: How Tech is Powering the Future of Hotels
For a long time, hotel technology was a means to an end. A simple efficiency tool that often caused more headaches than it intended to solve. Not anymore. A property management system (PMS) is no longer just the chunky digital filing cabinet in the back office. It is the engine
The Future of Hotel Competitiveness is Connectivity
The future of hotel competitiveness is being redefined by connectivity. No longer just background infrastructure, seamless integrations are now a critical driver of growth and profitability. Hotels that embrace connectivity gain visibility, control, and efficiency. Those who ignore it risk falling behind with costly errors and missed opportunities. In this
Is Your Pre-Arrival Communication Generating Revenue? Track It.
Pre-arrival communication shapes the guest experience long before check-in, but are you measuring its real impact? Too often, hoteliers stop at vanity metrics like open rates and clicks. Those numbers may look good on paper, but they reveal little about guest satisfaction, loyalty, or revenue. The real opportunity lies in