Hotel Lead Management: 4 Ways to Increase Leads
To maximize revenue at your property, a hotel lead management strategy is essential. We all know that when hospitality is booming, working in hotel sales is a blast…
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Hotel Lead Management: 4 Ways to Increase Leads
To maximize revenue at your property, a hotel lead management strategy is essential. We all know that when hospitality is booming, working in hotel sales is a blast…
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How to keep your direct guests and steer the traveler booking motivations away from the OTAs?
A recent study conducted by Expedia Group claimed travelers are 57 percent more likely to book a hotel via an OTA than before the pandemic, as a result of emerging traveler booking motivations such as: To get the best nightly rate (69 percent), To…
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Here are our winter marketing recommendations for your hotel
It’s not going to be a typical winter, by any means…
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Eastern Europe development on conversions growth spurt
Hotel-chain development teams are busier than ever despite the pandemic devastating demand, as independents and small networks rush to seek the comfort of scale, loyalty and other brand benefits…
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UK hotel investors consider long-term goals, risk
With London in the dumps in terms of demand and revenue, the U.K. investment scene has been flipped on its head, but investors remain focused on long-term assets even though risk, bad players and valuations muddy the waters…
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British Airways CEO Alex Cruz is out as 'worst crisis' in aviation history rolls on
Alex Cruz is stepping down as chairman and chief executive of British Airways as its owner, International Airlines Group (IAG), reshuffles top management to tackle the worst crisis in aviation history…
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Easyjet set to report first annual loss in carrier's history
Easyjet says it expects to record annual pre-tax losses of between £815 and £845 million, and is forecasting to operate just 25 per cent of capacity in the first quarter of 2021.
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Hotel Giant IHG Data Shows Younger Travelers Now Prefer Much Shorter Booking Windows
The coronavirus pandemic continues to place a giant question mark around the travel industry and when demand will once again return to 2019 levels. Shifts in consumer behavior aren’t helping hotel companies like IHG plan for a recovery…
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Hoteliers remain optimistic despite pandemic fatigue
Members of the Lodging Industry Investment Council look back at the months the U.S. hotel industry has grappled with the coronavirus pandemic and what they believe that means for hoteliers going forward…
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Revenue Management During a Pandemic: APAC Focus
Vijesh Yoganathan, our Head of APAC, sat down with Amit Peshawaria, Head of Sales Asia Pacific at OTA Insight and Murphy Mathew, Regional Solutions Engineer APAC, IDeaS Revenue Solutions, to discuss revenue management strategy in the Asia Pacific…
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Is It Better To Have a Revenue Manager or Revenue Management Software?
The robots are coming! They’re taking over! No job is safe! That’s the hype we keep hearing, and revenue-management software companies definitely want you to believe that a computer is better than a human. But is it true…
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Pricing principles to help hotels maximize revenue during COVID-19
When I wrote my first pandemic-themed article, Hotel Marketing and Revenue Management in the Time of Pandemic, I was definitely hoping for things to be better by now…
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How hoteliers are pricing rooms amid demand lows
The coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult for U.S. hoteliers looking to drive rates because demand has dropped overall, but they have found some opportunities for growth.
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As UK furloughs near end, Whitbread to shed 6,000 jobs
The effects of COVID-19 on the United Kingdom’s hotel industry and the end of the government’s furlough scheme have forced Whitbread PLC, the U.K.’s largest hotel company by asset number, to terminate 6,000 jobs, 4,500 of which are in the company’s…
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Driftwood Capital gears up for ‘tsunami of deals’
Driftwood Capital expects a wave of distressed assets to hit the market within the next three to six months as government funding runs out…
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IHG’s Voco brand adds first Austrian property
Intercontinental Hotels Group has added the first property under its Voco brand in Northern Europe. The former Holiday Inn Villach in Austria’s southern Carinthia province has been reflagged as the Voco Villach…
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Columbia Hospitality Program Places Executives With Clients
Management and consulting firm Columbia Hospitality, based here, has created an executive search program designed to place highly skilled and qualified candidates into positions in the hospitality industry…
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NYC restaurants can soon add a Covid-19 surcharge to customers' bills
New York City diners may soon see a Covid-19 surcharge on their bills as the restaurant industry continues to hobble due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Asset managers: Owners must be the focus of comeback
While hoteliers would like to see a return to a robust demand environment sooner rather than later, asset management experts said it will be important to embrace cost cutting measures to ensure a return to profitability…
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Accor Just Restructured the Company in the Middle of a Pandemic: Why Now?
A corporate reorganization at Accor pushes some power away from corporate headquarters and leaves the Paris-based hotel company without four of its top executives, according to an internal memo sent this week by the company’s CEO Sebastien Bazin…
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Maldives resort launches $23,250 luxury remote working package
A desk with an ocean view, a "dedicated" personal assistant, non-stop refreshments and a complimentary laundry service.
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Hoteliers plan for a budget season unlike any other
With even less certainty about future performance than normal, hoteliers are changing how they prepare a budget as they get ready for 2021.
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Larry Mogelonsky: To upsell or not to upsell a COVID amenity
Hoteliers might be able to upsell pandemic-related services as add-ons to position hotels in an attractive light and at lower prices while maintaining healthy margins above costs.
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Real Time Pricing: Why It's Like F1 For Revenue Managers
The hotel next door is pricing their rooms faster than you and it’s eating your profits without you ever even noticing. Faster yield management software and real time pricing is like a secret weapon for revenue managers…
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