Revenue Management

The market is poised for boutique hotels to make an impact on the hotel industry like they never have before. With an expected soft landing Read More

Besides providing reservations sales training and telephone mystery shopping for the lodging industry, many companies have hired me to do consulting regarding their overall sales Read More

A new upscale hotel development without a spa or wellness centre? Quite probably no. What not that long ago was a differentiating service element now Read More

After several years of solid RevPAR growth, most hotels are now seeing the increases slow. Of course each market is different, but this leveling off Read More

Cheap? Expensive? Are you sure that you are measuring each action you carry out precisely? Grab your calculator and read this. Calculating the costs of Read More

In previous part of the article Ira Vouk, go through the concept of revenue management and how it could be implemented in the limited service Read More

What is Revenue Management?  Why revenue needs to be managed? The answer is obvious: to increase profits. Unfortunately, not all hotel operators understand the importance Read More

Net Affinity’s booking engine processes and analyses tons of bookings every day. Looking at that data, we realized we’re sitting on a whole lot of Read More

If someone would have surveyed hoteliers in the early 2000′s as online bookings were growing exponentially each year, few would have predicted that by now Read More

The emergence of multi-sided technology platforms, collectively known as the “sharing economy”, has enabled individuals to collaboratively make use of under-utilized inventory via fee-based sharing. Read More