SiteMinder

AUGUST 5, 2025

This standardized language streamlines daily operations, from front desk check-ins to revenue management, ensuring clear communication across all hotel departments and with industry partners. BOH (Back of house) Staff-only areas such as kitchens and offices where operational work happens away from guests.

Occupancy

Xotels

AUGUST 6, 2025

Typically, the hotel budget season starts towards the end of August with presentations to management starting the following month. However, with trends ever evolving and Covid-19 impacting booking behaviour, it is important to take factors such as booking windows, cancellations trends, increasing room rates, and inflation into account.

Revenue

Xotels

JULY 11, 2025

There are plenty of low-cost revenue management tools that get the job done if you know how to use them. When done right, it covers cancellations and no-shows without turning away actual guests. All in all, one of the most powerful tactics in revenue management you can play with. Even the best operators hit blind spots.

Revenue Management

Hospitality Today

JUNE 24, 2025

Last-minute bookings rising : Booking Holdings and Hyatt both report shorter stays and more last-minute reservations, complicating yield management and pricing strategies. Vacation “trade-down” trend : Travelers aren’t cancelling vacations but opting for closer, shorter, and cheaper alternatives like road trips and campgrounds.

Travel

SiteMinder

JUNE 12, 2024

What is Yield Management? Yield management is a pricing and revenue management strategy that is used to maximise business performance. It involves adjusting prices based on predicted demand and other external factors to maximise revenue or yield. A similar principle can apply to distribution.

Yield Management

Cloudbeds

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

We’ll also show you how to harness this powerful technology to capture more reservations, streamline booking processes, save time and costs, and increase guest satisfaction – whether you operate a hotel, hostel, motel, B&B, or vacation rental company. Manage rates and availability in real-time. What is a hotel reservation system?

Revenue Management

Cloudbeds

JULY 15, 2023

And even then, manually-managed distribution is risky: any delays in updating rates and availability on a channel’s extranet could mean selling a room that isn’t available or selling at a lower rate, which can lead to overbooking and sub-optimal yield management. The same happens with a cancellation.

Management