Hotelogix

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Understanding different hospitality technology solutions and their roles – Hotel PMS You can call it a Hotel PMS, hotel property management system , hotel property management software, hotel management system, hotel management software, or hotel software. They lack integration capabilities.

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SiteMinder

OCTOBER 10, 2023

What is an Agoda channel manager? An Agoda channel manager is a tool designed to help hoteliers optimise their online presence across Agoda’s extensive booking platform. Table of contents Why should hotels consider a channel manager for Agoda? How does an Agoda channel manager work? But that’s not all.

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Hotelogix

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A no-show in the hotel industry occurs when a guest makes a reservation but fails to show up or cancel their booking in advance. Understanding the intricacies of no-shows is important for effective hotel management. Offer Flexible Cancellations  Flexible cancellation policies can significantly reduce no-shows.

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Xotels

APRIL 3, 2024

We have written extensively about hotel revenue management strategies and tactics here throughout the years. As strategy is one of the most essential parts of revenue management, we have made a summary of all the top advice from our perspective as a hotel revenue management consulting company.

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Little Hotelier

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Vacation rental software is a versatile solution that covers everything from online booking and reservation management to seamless payment processing and automatic guest communication. It’s like having a trusted partner by your side, designed to simplify and supercharge the management of your charming hotel or vacation property.

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Inn Quest

AUGUST 15, 2023

At a glance: – Understanding the Hotel Channel Management Landscape – What Is A Hotel Channel Manager? – Technical Features of A Hotel Channel Manager – How To Choose The Right Hotel Channel Manager For Your Hotel? – What Other Systems Can You Use With A Channel Manager At Your Hotel?

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SiteMinder

JUNE 12, 2024

What is Yield Management? Yield management is a pricing and revenue management strategy that is used to maximise business performance. For hotels, the ultimate aim of yield management is to increase revenue by leveraging the balance between supply (available rooms) and demand (guest bookings).

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Little Hotelier

MAY 12, 2024

Little Hotelier makes the transition to tech-led management simple In the beginning, Mamori House faced challenges selling through various online channels. It helps us manage our rooms to prevent overbooking. This answers the need for us to be able to manage and control everything ourselves with flexibility.”

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STAAH

JUNE 18, 2024

Booking process Display accurate, up-to-date information on room availability and pricing to avoid overbooking and ensure transparency. Allow guests to easily modify or cancel their bookings online. Sync with a channel manager to maintain rate parity and manage inventory across multiple distribution channels.

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SiteMinder

OCTOBER 10, 2023

What is a Trivago channel manager? A Trivago channel manager serves as a bridge between your hotel and potential guests. By effectively managing your listings across Trivago, it reduces necessary admin, optimises your online visibility, and enhances guest experience, ensuring that your hotel reaches a wider audience.

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eZee Absolute

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Imagine you have 25 rooms to manage in your bustling hotel. Well, that’s where your trusty sidekick in this digital world comes in – the hotel channel manager. In simple words, a channel manager is your 24*7 assistant in the digital world of bookings. Sounds like a logistical nightmare, right? But fear not!

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Hotelogix

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Hotel Property Management System (Hotel PMS) is software that helps hotels efficiently organize, schedule, and manage their daily operations. They can also take requests for booking cancellation/modification and room upgrades, etc, with ease. What is Hotel PMS? to make key business decisions.

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STAAH

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Benefits: You can temporarily halt room sales through specific channels, allowing for better inventory management. Sending zero inventory to channels when fully booked avoids overbooking. 2) Avoid Group Booking Reduce the risk of last-minute cancellation for group bookings, especially over high demand dates.

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Little Hotelier

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

What is hotel reputation management software? As the name suggests, hotel reputation management software, also called hotel online review software or hotel review management software, is technology designed to help hotels and other accommodation providers to manage their online reputations.

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Cloudbeds

JULY 15, 2023

For growing hospitality businesses, a channel manager is a fundamental part of successful revenue management and distribution strategy. In this guide for hospitality professionals, you’ll learn all about Channel Managers, from how they work to what makes great software for your business specifically. What is a channel manager?

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STAAH

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Like many other areas in travel and hospitality, revenue management has dramatically changed in the last two years. We spoke to leading revenue managers on what they think lies ahead. Revenue managers have had to up their ante on monitoring local trends and populace segments to get a better understanding of demand.

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SiteMinder

JUNE 24, 2024

Understanding these fees is essential for effectively managing your hotel’s revenue. If your hotel charges additional resort fees, these need to be clearly communicated to guests and managed separately. It’s worth discussing your options with your Booking.com account manager to see if custom rates can be arranged.

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Little Hotelier

JULY 31, 2023

From a fully interactive calendar that enables changes to rates and room types, to an intuitive content manager that allows you to easily update and rate the quality of your content, images, and offers, MaxiRoom is designed to simplify the management of your property in their system.

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Catala Consulting

JULY 30, 2023

In the fiercely competitive hospitality industry, the essence of successful resort revenue management lies in data-driven decision-making. Resort revenue management has become an indispensable tool for businesses, fostering strategies that maximize yield and build strong customer relationships.

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eZee Absolute

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Another guest complained about delayed responses to their queries, while the hotel’s management struggled to keep track of bookings and cancellations. These challenges included: Manual Booking Management: The hotel’s dependency on manual processes for managing bookings led to a plethora of issues.

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eZee Absolute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

On a recent flight to Bangalore, I bumped into Aditi, a former colleague who now manages a resort in Wayanad. It’s when a guest books a room but simply doesn’t turn up without canceling. Your policies should outline the consequences of a no-show, such as a cancellation fee or the forfeiture of a deposit.

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SiteMinder

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While they can be a wild card in the hotel management game, they offer a unique opportunity to maximise occupancy and revenue. Reduced cancellation risks : The closer the booking is to the stay date, the less likely it is to be cancelled. The answer is a pooled inventory system via a tool like SiteMinder’s channel manager.

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Hotelogix

APRIL 18, 2024

What induces anxiety and ennui in those who manage such businesses Well, we asked this question to hundreds of hoteliers in the past few months and came up with this word cloud that you see below. This is a fine strategy to start at, however, the problem is managing the hotel on all these OTAs. So what does keep a hotelier up at night?

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STAAH

JUNE 11, 2024

A smart booking engine such as SwiftBook can help you make optimised decisions via dynamic pricing as well as offer discounts, loyalty programmes, free amenities or flexible cancellation policies for guests who book directly. Using insights from your channel manager, you can also dial-up the high-performing channels in real-time.

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SiteMinder

JULY 21, 2024

SiteMinder has been making everyday life easier at the Hirsch 1783 for six years – but since Peter Schöllhorn linked 3RPMS to SiteMinder’s channel manager , day-to-day operations have fundamentally changed. A flexible and intuitive platform When Peter was looking for a new channel manager, his nerves were frayed.

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Cloudbeds

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Whether online or offline, behind every effortless booking experience is a fast, reliable, and fully integrated hospitality management system. A hotel reservation system is software used in the hotel industry to manage room inventory, rates, and bookings. How do hotel reservation systems work? Increase efficiency.

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Little Hotelier

OCTOBER 11, 2023

However, you may also be worried about managing the increased workload that awaits you. Don’t overbook as a strategy Some accommodation providers deliberately overbook their rooms to anticipate cancellations. However, overbooking means that you risk double booking, which is not worth the risk.

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Fuel Travel

JULY 11, 2024

Behind the scenes it manages rates, availability, and guest reservations, passing this information from the hotel to the guest and vice versa. It also prevents overbooking and keeps everything in sync, allowing guests to tailor their stay preferences and enhance their experience. How does hotel booking software work?

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Hotelogix

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A Central Reservation System (CRS)  helps hotels manage room availability, pricing, and bookings from different channels.   Without it, hotel staff would have to update each room's availability manually which could lead to errors such as overbookings. Why is a Central Reservation System Important for Hotels?

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Xotels

JANUARY 18, 2021

One of the components needed to apply a hotel revenue management is market segmentation. As a revenue manager or hotelier, your hotel market segmentation shall help to identify the purpose of the trip: either business or leisure. Cancellation %. Overbooking (from another hotel). What is Hotel Market Segmentation?

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eZee Absolute

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Turning Dreams into Reality with eZee’s Solutions Experiencing these challenges, Beach Street Eco Resort & Spa started looking for comprehensive hotel management software that could help them simplify hotel operations. That’s when they turned to eZee.

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SiteMinder

MARCH 16, 2023

There’s a range of benefits to having this technology in place at your hotel, mostly based around simplifying your life as a manager or staff member and speeding up a number of processes. It is the easiest way to increase productivity when you manage a hotel or any other type of accommodation.

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Hotelogix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Managing daily hotel operations is undoubtedly a complex and stressful task. We are talking about the Hotel Property Management System, also called the Hotel PMS System. Other critical aspects are assigning housekeepers to maintain rooms, managing room-keeping schedules, and tracking inventory such as linen and cleaning supplies. 

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Hotelogix

OCTOBER 18, 2023

  As technology continues to reshape the hospitality landscape, the importance of an effective reservation system cannot be overstated—it's the key to unlocking efficiency and excellence in modern hotel management. This attention to detail contributes to guest loyalty and positive reviews.

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Cloudbeds

APRIL 2, 2024

The number of booking channels lodging businesses must manage has expanded exponentially, from their website to online travel agencies , bed banks, GDS’, and metasearch engines. Unlike a channel manager , a CRS can service search requests and create new reservations in real time. The property management system.

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Clock Software Hospitality

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Throughout the years this has led to countless innovations in the industry, culminating with the adoption of hotel property management systems (PMS) which now act as the centre of a hotel’s daily operations. Manage Room Inventory Your hotel’s occupancy is the main metric by which you judge how well your business is doing at the moment.

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Clock Software Hospitality

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Hospitality property management systems (PMS) provide independent hotels with the same set of tools that large hotel chains use to manage their own properties. A hotel’s PMS is its core, it is the source of all operations and distribution, containing all relevant data to successfully manage the property.

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