SiteMinder

JUNE 24, 2024

Cancellation fee If a guest cancels a booking, Booking.com might charge a cancellation fee to that guest. This fee policy helps protect your revenue and ensures that cancellations do not significantly impact your income. There are some scenarios in which Booking.com won’t charge a cancellation fee. Overbooking.

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SiteMinder

JUNE 12, 2024

This includes offering tailored packages, suggesting room upgrades, promoting in-house dining experiences, and even curating special entertainment events. For instance, if a hotel expects high occupancy due to an upcoming event in the city, they can ensure adequate staffing and inventory to cater to the influx of guests.

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Hotelogix

APRIL 4, 2025

AI handles booking changes and cancellations quickly, making the process smooth. 👉 Read Also - ChatGPT for Hotels: Boost Direct Bookings & Reduce Costs Temporary Hotels for Events Pop-up hotels are built for short-term stays during major events, festivals , or seasonal tourism spikes.

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SiteMinder

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Control your OTA listings and earn more revenue Say goodbye to overbookings and hello to maximised revenue with real-time inventory and rate management with SiteMinder’s channel management solution. Booking management Handling reservations, cancellations, and modifications is a breeze with our Agoda channel manager.

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Little Hotelier

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This feature helps streamline the booking process, reducing the risk of overbooking and ensuring a smooth check-in experience for guests. Event and conference management tool: Alacer offers a tool for organising events and conferences, including the management of related hotel services like room reservations and restaurant bookings.

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eZee Absolute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

It’s when a guest books a room but simply doesn’t turn up without canceling. You’ve got the solo traveler who forgets about the booking, the big group that cancels last minute, and then there’s the mysterious disappearance act – no clue why they didn’t show up. There are a few different types of no-shows.

Cancellation 52

Cancellation Hotels Revenue OTA 52

Little Hotelier

OCTOBER 11, 2023

hotels should consider a number of local factors, such as the climate, local holidays and events, school terms and target guests. If it’s an event of some kind, you can include tickets to the event in the room rate, as well as transport to and from the event. Learn more When is peak travel season for hotels?

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Inn Quest

AUGUST 15, 2023

Hotels face a daunting challenge as travelers seek convenience and competitive prices: how to efficiently manage their room inventory across multiple online distribution channels while maintaining real-time updates and avoiding overbooking. Maximize your occupancy and avoid overbookings by centralizing your inventory and pricing.

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Cloudbeds

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When travelers book through your website, they can make changes or cancel directly with your property, giving them peace of mind. As a lodging operator, you can implement deposit and cancellation policies as a safeguard in case of no-shows. Reassure travelers and protect your bottom line. Manage rates and availability in real-time.

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Revenue Management Hotels Revenue Operations 98

eZee Absolute

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A Wake-Up Call in the Himalayas It was a busy summer season when Hotel Stone Hedge faced a series of unfortunate events. Another guest complained about delayed responses to their queries, while the hotel’s management struggled to keep track of bookings and cancellations.

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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. What’s allotment ? What’s iCal?

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Xotels

APRIL 3, 2024

Key factors considered in market segmentation include length of stay , day-of-week stays, total revenue per room , total revenue per client, booking lead time, cancellation percentage, and no-show ratio. This information enables revenue managers to strategically target specific holidays or events with tailored offers and packages.

Revenue Management 76

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Xotels

JANUARY 18, 2021

Cancellation %. Special Event; packages and offers during holidays, festivals, concerts. Usually, customers in this segment combine their hotel stay with an event or other form of activity or business taking place at a hotel or in close proximity to the property. Overbooking (from another hotel). Day of Weeks stays.

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Clock Software Hospitality

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The same goes with the reverse, late cancellations are automatically relisted, allowing the hotel to optimise its revenue potential. By preventing overbookings, independent hospitality providers are allowing their establishments to seem more exclusive and in turn, increase their value on the hospitality market.

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SiteMinder

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This centralisation is crucial in averting overbooking or underselling scenarios, which could tarnish your hotel’s reputation and result in revenue loss. Moreover, in the event of cancellations or changes in booking, the system instantaneously adjusts the availability, ensuring that every booking opportunity is capitalised upon.

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Catala Consulting

JULY 30, 2023

Overbooking: Though counterintuitive, it helps mitigate revenue loss due to last-minute cancellations or no-shows. Seasonal Pattern Analysis: Resorts can capitalize on fluctuating demands driven by seasons, holidays, and local events, by adjusting pricing and operational strategies accordingly.

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Clock Software Hospitality

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

OTAs: Which Way Does the Scale Tip in 2020 A guest books a room through an OTA, the booking is instantly noted in your inventory, another guest cancels at the last minute, and the room is automatically up for sale again on every channel.

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Hotelogix

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

They can also take requests for booking cancellation/modification and room upgrades, etc, with ease. Banquet & Event Management : Manages bookings and billing for hotel event spaces. Night Audit : Automates the end-of-day process to reconcile daily transactions.

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Xotels

APRIL 3, 2024

Key factors considered in market segmentation include length of stay , day-of-week stays, total revenue per room , total revenue per client, booking lead time, cancellation percentage, and no-show ratio. This information enables revenue managers to strategically target specific holidays or events with tailored offers and packages.

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Hotelogix

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This prevents overbookings, eliminates misunderstandings, and ensures that guests receive precise information when making reservations. No-show and Cancellation Policies: Specify policies for no-shows and cancellations, ensuring transparency and managing guest expectations.

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Cloudbeds

JUNE 8, 2023

Reservations made on your website should automatically sync with your hotel property management system and across all your OTA channels so you don’t get overbookings. No more overbookings. But it’s important: improperly mapped inventory can lead to overbookings, lost reservations, and other miscommunications.

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SiteMinder

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As recently as 2016 STR measured the impact of Airbnb on hotels by impact on ADR during special events; for example, during the Boston Marathon hotel rates grew 5% year over year when unit supply on Airbnb had grown by 76%. 9flats has a similar focus on renting and staying in someone else’s apartment.

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Hotels Average Length of Stay Accommodation Management 52

Catala Consulting

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Events & Local Trends: Conferences, festivals, or holidays that impact booking patterns. Example: If a hotel forecasts high demand for an upcoming event, it may limit OTA inventory to encourage direct bookings and reduce commission costs. (E.g., Competitor Pricing: Monitoring competitor rates to stay competitive.

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