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Revenue optimization: Full guide for hotels

SiteMinder

Primary revenue streams Room reservations Online Travel Agencies Global Distribution System (GDS) Corporate/Group Booking’ Channel Management 2. Upselling and cross-selling: Upselling encourages guests to upgrade their room or add amenities like breakfast or parking.

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PMS integration: Beginners guide for small properties

Little Hotelier

Look for a system that automates key operations like updating room availability, managing bookings, and processing payments. This will save you from the hassle of manual updates and reduce the risk of overbookings or missed payments. Upselling integrations Maximise your revenue by integrating upselling tools into your PMS.

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Effective Hotel Sales Strategies to Increase Revenue

Hotelogix

Streamline Distribution to Maximize Visibility Managing your distribution channels is key to maximizing your hotel's visibility. OTAs (like Booking.com or Airbnb), your website, and other platforms (like Global Distribution Systems or GDS) are the places travelers look for hotels.

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What is hotel booking software? 

Fuel Travel

It also prevents overbooking and keeps everything in sync, allowing guests to tailor their stay preferences and enhance their experience. If the hotel is using a revenue management platform, the specific rates are managed and optimized in either that system or in the PMS itself.

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Busting Today’s Hotel Distribution Myths

Hotel Speak

Effective hotel distribution strategies enable hotels to target the right audience, optimise occupancy rates, and enhance revenue management. Hotels have worked with third parties such as airlines, travel agents, online travel agents (OTAs) and the Global Distribution System (GDS) for decades.

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What is a hotel reservation system and why is it important?

Cloudbeds

The information is then populated into the PMS and distributed to the hotel’s booking channels with the help of channel management software. These channels may include the hotel’s website booking engine, online travel agencies (OTAs), the global distribution system (GDS), wholesalers, and metasearch sites.

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What is a channel manager? All you need to know

Cloudbeds

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. With advanced channel management connections, the update is fast.