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What is Hotel Revenue Management?

Xotels

XOTELS – Revenue Management eBook In the first chapter of this eBook, we will go over the definition of what is revenue management in the hotel and hospitality industry. Everything will be explained from the fundamentals of revenue management to more advanced practices and strategies.

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Decoding Hotel Demand: Mastering Hotel Seasonality for Profit

Demand Calendar

Hotel revenue managers talk about "need periods, " meaning the hotel needs to fill the hotel with more guests. The worst part is if hotels at the destination start a price war to attract more guests, the results will be lower revenue for all, and no additional guests will travel to the destination because the hotel rooms are cheap.

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Master Pick-up Analytics: Learn Why & How They Elevate Your Hotel

Refine

Pick-up analytics are essential for hotels to forecast demand, optimize pricing strategies, manage inventory, marketing, and improve revenue management. In this article, we will dive into the world of Pick-up Analytics. You will learn what Pick-up Analytics is and how to use it to help your hotel optimize performance.

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Parking as a source of revenue for hotels

Hotel Business

Rethinking parking as a key revenue stream Just like rooms, food and beverages, and event spaces, parking should be considered a key revenue-generating component within a hotel’s ecosystem. It starts by employing existing frameworks for maximizing room revenues and applying those same strategies to available parking spaces.

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Hotel metrics: How to measure performance in the hotel industry

SiteMinder

It offers insights into room demand and helps in forecasting. Average daily rate (ADR) measures the average revenue earned from each occupied room per day, shedding light on pricing strategies. Revenue per available room (RevPAR) combines the occupancy rate and ADR to give a comprehensive view of both room sales and revenue.

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Hotel Star Reports: What are they and how to read them

SiteMinder

Your index number tells you whether or not your hotel is outperforming your compset against three key KPIs: occupancy, ADR and RevPar. The index is calculated by dividing your KPI values by the average KPI values of your compset, then multiplying by 100. ADR = Total room revenue/total rooms sold.

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Hotel rate management: Best software to use

SiteMinder

It pays to obsess over long-range weather forecasts too. What is the hotel industry standard for measuring the effective management of room rates? There’s no single KPI that perfectly describes how effective your rate management is. If it’s a quiet time you can lower your rates to coax more guests in.