SiteMinder

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Previously, hotel operations such as receiving, recording, and inputting reservation data into the property management system had to be done manually, which was time-consuming and ineffective. For that reason, it needed to ditch manual work and switch to system integration.

Overbooking 105

Overbooking Hotels Revenue Management 105

STAAH

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

That was time-consuming for the team and opened the door to issues such as unintentional overbooking or lost revenue due to delayed rate updates. A need to improve efficiency and accuracy Before implementing STAAH , Sahid Hotels manually managed the rates on all its channels. STAAH fixed these issues.

Revenue 104

Revenue Resorts Overbooking Hotels 104

STAAH

MAY 7, 2023

Rates and bookings were manually entered , which was highly time-consuming for the staff. Combined with real-time updates, this has meant time-saving for the Airways team along with reduced risks of overbookings and rate parity issues. With an expansive inventory, these features have been critical to Airways.

Overbooking 98

Overbooking General Manager Revenue Hotels 98

Little Hotelier

JULY 25, 2023

This was time-consuming and can be very confusing. “My It’s such a relief to know we’re not accidentally overbooking our property. We recently spoke to owners Alexandra Klosok-Wofford and Michael Wofford, to find out how introducing Little Hotelier has optimised their online distribution and day-to-day efforts.

OTA 98

OTA Overbooking Consumer Management 98

Hotel Speak

OCTOBER 10, 2024

By combining Cloudbeds’ innovative property management system (PMS) with STS Cloud’s robust event management and sales capabilities, hoteliers can prevent overbookings, optimize room and event inventory, and deliver personalized service to win more deals.

Events 103

Events Sales Operations Sales Process 103

Hotelogix

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Stuck with old-fashioned booking methods: Traditional methods can be time-consuming and prone to errors, making it difficult to efficiently manage reservations. Pricing feels like guesswork: Without data-driven insights, setting competitive and profitable room rates can be a daunting task.

Online Marketing 52

Online Marketing Market Marketing Hotels 52

Little Hotelier

APRIL 28, 2023

This meant that keeping room inventory up to date across all distribution channels was difficult and time-consuming. Overbooking was a common occurrence. There was always the risk of overbooking. We still had overbookings all the time,” said the motel owner-operators.

Motels 52

Motels Overbooking Hotels OTA 52

eZee Absolute

JANUARY 15, 2025

Despite its allure, Hotel 7 Rays was grappling with operational inefficiencies that seemed minor at first but grew into significant concerns over time: Manual Reporting Hassles: Preparing weekly and monthly reports was a time-consuming task that ate into valuable management hours. The result? Weekly and monthly data? Just a few clicks away.

Management 52

Management Overbooking Hotels Operations 52

SiteMinder

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

SiteMinder creates a seamless reservation process that saves us several hours of manual work every week and drastically reduces the risk of unwanted overbookings,” Jon highlights. In the past, collecting the needed information was time-consuming and difficult. Then the inventory across all channels is updated automatically.

Revenue 98

Revenue OTA Overbooking Online Sales 98

SiteMinder

MAY 17, 2023

We can also plan reservations and sales in advance with ease.” “SiteMinder provides us with the ability to make real-time pricing changes and analyse consumer booking patterns. ” Reduced overbooking and human errors The benefits stretch much further than being more efficient and doing things easier.

Revenue 52

Revenue Operations Overbooking Online Sales 52

Catala Consulting

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Recruiting, training, and retaining employees is a time-consuming process that impacts service consistency. Overbooking and Room Management: Managing reservations, especially during peak seasons, presents a significant challenge to front office teams. Overbooking can lead to guest dissatisfaction and damage the hotel’s reputation.

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Overbooking Operations Management Revenue Management 52

SiteMinder

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Our previous low-quality channel manager made this an arduous and time-consuming task for our staff.” This has not only saved us countless hours but has also reduced the risk of errors and overbookings, providing a seamless booking experience for our guests.”

Operations 98

Operations Revenue Hotels OTA 98

Hotelogix

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This would lead to overbooking and double booking. This is a time-consuming process and does not guarantee a real-time update. Considering this, you can either have a plan to overbook your property with caution or you can completely avoid overbookings. This too, helps you avoid overbooking and double booking.

OTA 52

OTA Management Overbooking Cancellation 52

Social Tables

JUNE 8, 2022

Avoid cutting the audience off from speakers by limiting walking paths, overbooking your space, or making it difficult for attendees to move around. Put thought into your event design and think about how the layout could impact interaction between audience members and presenters. Livestream events on social media.

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Events Overbooking Market Marketing 149

Xotels

MARCH 3, 2025

Luckily, from our experience as a revenue management consulting company, we’ve learned many tools that will simplify your life, help cut-out time-consuming tasks, and also enable you to open new streams of revenue! That’s a recipe for overbookings and lost revenue.

Revenue Management 40

Revenue Management Revenue Management Ancillary Revenue 40

Hotelogix

OCTOBER 30, 2024

  Here are the challenges they face along with necessary solutions:  Managing Multiple Calls  Handling guest calls consumes a significant portion of the front desk staff’s day. Handling these queries manually can lead to overbookings. Identifying the issues is the first step towards solving every front desk issue. 

Operations 64

Operations Overbooking Hotels Services 64

SiteMinder

JULY 21, 2024

He hardly ever had any free time. “The work was so time-consuming that I almost dreaded the summer season. An extreme time saver and no more overbookings It was the simple and flexible handling that ultimately convinced Peter about SiteMinder and 3RPMS. I haven’t had that problem for years!”

Operations 52

Operations Overbooking Hotels Cancellation 52

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.

Management 52

Management Global Distribution System Overbooking OTA 52

SiteMinder

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

That was time-consuming for the team and opened the door to issues such as unintentional overbooking or lost revenue due to delayed rate updates. With SiteMinder, a few clicks are enough to avoid overbooking.” Using SiteMinder has solved these issues for the Abbey Hotel. “If

Overbooking 69

Overbooking Closing Hotels Revenue Management 69

Hotel Speak

JULY 24, 2024

Metasearch presents room rates across different hotels and channels to allow consumers to compare prices. However, it’s essential to ensure availability and rates are accurate at all times, to prevent overbooking, or under- or over-pricing products.

OTA 101

OTA Hotels Revenue Marketing 101

SiteMinder

JUNE 12, 2023

Last minute changes in pricing that used to be complex and time-consuming now only take a few clicks to complete. This gives me peace of mind knowing that we’re not accidentally overbooking any rooms,” Mirja mentioned. The support during implementation was exceptional and the system itself was ready to go in no time.”

Overbooking 52

Overbooking Hotels Management Consumer 52

Hotel Business

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Heres an example: a country club with yearly membership costs of more than $50,000 a year trained its front desk staff to know the names and consumer habits of all of its 200-plus members and their often-visiting friends and family members so that they can address them by name at all times and make their communication more personalized.

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Scale Hotels KPI Business 92

Cloudbeds

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By combining Cloudbeds’ innovative property management system (PMS) with STS Cloud’s robust event management and sales capabilities, hoteliers can prevent overbookings, optimize room and event inventory, and deliver personalized service to win more deals.

Events 59

Events Sales Operations Sales Process 59

SiteMinder

JUNE 12, 2024

This can involve overbooking strategies to account for last-minute cancellations or no-shows. Overbooking Strategy : Intentionally accepting more reservations than available rooms, anticipating that a certain percentage of guests will cancel or not show up. This strategy aims to ensure maximum occupancy.

Yield Management 98

Yield Management Management Revenue Management Revenue 98

Little Hotelier

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It allows you to automate time-consuming tasks, reduce manual work, and keep everything—from bookings to payments—in one place. This will save you from the hassle of manual updates and reduce the risk of overbookings or missed payments. Learn more Why is PMS integration essential for small properties? Streamlined operations.

OTA 59

OTA Motels Upsell Overbooking 59

SiteMinder

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Not only was this time-consuming, but it also increased the risk of errors and inconsistencies across booking platforms. Additionally, the ‘limit rate plan’ feature allowed Wapa di Ume to control room availability or closures on certain channels automatically, reducing the risk of overbooking.

Operations 52

Operations Overbooking Revenue B2B 52

Cloudbeds

APRIL 15, 2024

The hospitality industry is notorious for the number of time-consuming and tedious tasks that must be completed every single day. Automation plays a critical role in distributing inventory across various channels, ensuring that availability and rates are consistently updated across channels in real-time to reduce the risk of overbookings.

Revenue Management 98

Revenue Management Hotels Operations Revenue 98

Cloudbeds

APRIL 8, 2024

Download Guide Customize the traveler’s journey Consumer preferences have shifted significantly with the introduction of highly personalized technology like Netflix, Amazon, and Uber. With the Cloudbeds Booking Engine, your PMS and Channel Manager are automatically updated to prevent overbookings.

OTA 98

OTA Upsell Average Length of Stay Revenue 98

Xotels

APRIL 3, 2024

Guest & Market Segmentation Hotel market segmentation is an important component of effective revenue management, allowing hotels to target diverse consumer groups based on their behaviours and budget levels. Mapping out these questions out in your strategy will help to set realistic goals.

Revenue Management 76

Revenue Management Revenue Management Ancillary Revenue 76

Xotels

JANUARY 18, 2021

It allows you to target and market to a variety of consumer groups with different behaviour with an offer that matches their needs and budget level. Last but not least, the segment “Other” includes important segments that can’t be missed such as Complimentary and Overbookings which are often used across the hotel industry.

Hotel Marketing 40

Hotel Marketing Market Marketing Revenue Management 40

Cloudbeds

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If the components aren’t integrated, the revenue manager must perform these tasks manually, a time-consuming and error-prone process. This will help you increase occupancy, maintain rate parity, and prevent pricing errors, overbookings, and lost sales. Automate your credit card payment processing.

Revenue Management 98

Revenue Management Hotels Revenue Operations 98

eZee Absolute

AUGUST 26, 2024

For instance, the lack of immediate access to room availability often led to double bookings or overbookings, leaving guests without the accommodations they were promised. Guests were also left waiting longer at check-in due to the time-consuming process of manually verifying room statuses.

Resorts 52

Resorts Hospitality General Manager Operations 52

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. In the case of one-way sync, reservations or cancellations will not be imported.

Management 76

Management OTA Cancellation Overbooking 76

SiteMinder

DECEMBER 7, 2023

How to improve productivity in the hotel industry The ultimate goal of every hotel business is to produce more and consume less by optimising time and budget to achieve a greater level of efficiency. Here are five quick tips to help tackle productivity at your hotel: 1. For customer-obsessed businesses like hotels, this is ideal.

Hotels 59

Hotels Overbooking Business Tourism 59

Inn Quest

APRIL 5, 2023

Yield management, also known as revenue management, is a strategy hotels use to optimize their revenue by adjusting prices and inventory according to consumer demand. In this blog post, we will cover the following – what is yield management, its relevance in the hotel industry, and the benefits of yield management in the hotel industry.

Yield Management 88

Yield Management Management Occupancy Revenue 88

Social Tables

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Overbooking: Double-booking or overbooking restaurant event spaces can increase staff stress and decrease customer service. Overserving: Venues are responsible for the alcohol guests consume at their establishment. We recommend prohibiting outside food and drink at all events—public and private.

Events 88

Events Dining Services Accommodation 88

eZee Absolute

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This not only made day-to-day operations more complicated and time-consuming but also restricted the resort’s capacity to expand its business. Increased Bookings and Revenue: eZee’s reservation management system eliminated the chaos of overbookings and cancellations, leading to increased bookings and improved revenue.

Resorts 52

Resorts Tourism Fair Share Operations 52