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‘Call it magic’: Coldplay fans drive hot demand for hotel rooms in Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne

Hotel Management

The tour, which recently made history as the highest-grossing rock tour of all time, is the first rock tour to surpass US$1 billion in revenue, and second only to Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. days this year, suggesting that the spike in bookings has primarily been fuelled by concertgoers choosing shorter stays focused around the event.

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SiteMinder: Traveler confidence surges post-pandemic

Hotel Business

In 2022, analysis from SiteMinder’s Hotel Booking Trends showed: Travelers globally booked hotel stays considerably further in advance than in 2021, with hotels seeing a 38% increase in average booking lead time, year-on-year. Stays booked to Spain in August were the longest globally, at 2.65

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Hotel revenue optimisation strategies for small hotels

Little Hotelier

What is hotel revenue optimisation? As a small, independent hotelier you may have heard the terms hotel revenue optimisation and hotel revenue management. So what is revenue optimisation? Do all that and you’ll optimise your revenue by making as much money as possible from a limited resource: your rooms.

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What is ALOS and how do you calculate it?

SiteMinder

It’s a key hotel metric to track if you want to optimise your distribution, reduce costs and increase revenue. ALOS abbreviates ‘average length of stay.’ It refers to the average number of nights guests stay at your property over a given time. How do you calculate the average length of stay?

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SiteMinder’s Hotel Booking Trends

SiteMinder

For many years, SiteMinder has released annual data detailing the top revenue making channels for hoteliers. While this has always provided powerful knowledge, this year we wanted to take it further and give your business even more actionable insights.

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How decision intelligence unlocks hotel data for better insights

Cloudbeds

If there’s a sudden change, for example, an influx of last-minute bookings hits the system, the platform can enable revenue managers to adjust room rates dynamically to maximize revenue. Why it’s important for hotels? Traditional analysis, however, has limitations, as it tends to correlate single factors in isolation.

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Hotel revenue forecasting: Definitions, models, and best practices

SiteMinder

As unpredictable as it can be at times (especially through the COVID-19 pandemic), forecasting is still an important part of running a hotel and being able to make strategic revenue management decisions. What is hotel revenue forecasting? You need to use forecasting at your hotel to inform your pricing and revenue strategies.