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Scott Dahl
By Scott Dahl
Expert Views (18)
Max Starkov
Max Starkov, Hospitality & travel technologist and digital strategist, Hospitality Net

Let's remind everyone what the primary goal of revenue management (RM) is: to ensure that the property sells the right product to the right customer at the right time for the right price on the right channel. Typically revenue management systems (RMS) and revenue managers use historical, comp set pricing and market data and combine this with forward-looking demand signals like pacing to recommend the optimum rates.

Raul Moronta
Raul Moronta, CRME, CHIA, Chief Commercial Officer, Remington

The current pandemic will certainly have a long term shift in how we satisfy future demand. While there has been a lot of discussion around how it will evolve, it is still too early to figure out how things will materially change, and as such, technology has not caught up to it.

Trevor Stuart-Hill
Trevor Stuart-Hill, Founder and president, Revenue Matters

For individuals new to the concepts of revenue optimization, the first step would be to understand the breadth and depth of what is involved. Hint, it goes far beyond pricing. Work alongside an expert until you are ready to fly solo.

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Scott Dahl
By Scott Dahl
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Max Starkov
Max Starkov, Hospitality & travel technologist and digital strategist, Hospitality Net

In the pre-COVID-19 era, some revenue managers were indeed stuck in the rut. Who were they? Revenue managers who acted as mere “OTA Relationship Managers.” Or as comp-set pricing strategy plagiarists. Who used an Excel spreadsheet as their only technology tool.

Diego Fernandez Perez De Ponga
Diego Fernandez Perez De Ponga, Corporate Director Revenue Management Palladium Hotel Group, Palladium Hotel Group

The industry needs to face some important challenges, the first one incorporates more technology in our ecosystem, hotels and chains need to have more information on the daily basic decision, but they need to be more disrupted in this area, for example, smart destination software must come to our technology ecosystem.

Ira Vouk
Ira Vouk, Hospitality Tech and AI Consultant, Hospitality 2.0 Consulting

Thank you for the viewpoint, Scott. First of all, I'd like to express my opinion that the discipline of Revenue Management will never lose its relevance, no matter what happens in the industry and in the world. A business simply can't be successful without some type of RM tactics in place.

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Scott Dahl
By Scott Dahl
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Max Starkov
Max Starkov, Hospitality & travel technologist and digital strategist, Hospitality Net

Here are the three main action steps in revenue management in the post-crisis period: 1. Break down the silos! The post-crisis requires a completely new approach to revenue management (RM), not going back to the old ways of doing RM.

Harald Bindeus
Harald Bindeus, Commercial Leader | Marketing, Revenue Management, Sales |, Global Hotel Revenue Solutions

While none of us have any idea when the virus outbreak will be contained and when currently closed hotels will be allowed to open again, we can and should get ready for the day which will eventually come. At the same time, we can't plan too early without proper data and information.Action A: Resist the temptation to hand over your inventory, promotions and rate strategy to the OTAs.

Damiano Zennaro
Damiano Zennaro, Director, Global Advisory Services, IDeaS

It's true that the hotel industry has been through many storms. However, it has never seen a black swan event like this one. As the leading brands expect revenues to decline by an unprecedented 70% or more, millions of people are out of work and we are still 3-6 weeks away from the peak of the crisis.

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Scott Dahl
By Scott Dahl
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Timothy Wiersma
Timothy Wiersma, Principal | Revenue Generation, Revenue Generation LLC

It is very important for hotels to maintain a detailed forecast for both the short term (more frequent) and longer-term (outside 3 months). If your property has an automated system that provides demand information, it will likely only be reliable for the short term.

Ari Andricopoulos
Ari Andricopoulos, CEO, RoomPriceGenie

Without a forecast it is difficult to understand all of the revenue opportunities for a hotel and how to weave them into a single, successful revenue strategy. Creation of this strategy has two components. The continual, repetitive forecast update process that is needed to adjust tactics to make the strategy come true is clearly better accomplished by automation.

Raul Moronta
Raul Moronta, CRME, CHIA, Chief Commercial Officer, Remington

In my opinion, day by day forecasting is even more important now than ever. At Crescent Hotels and Resorts, we believe this is an integral part of our strategy, as it conveys to our stakeholders our strategic intent by day by market segment.

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Klaus Kohlmayr
By Klaus Kohlmayr
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Max Starkov
Max Starkov, Hospitality & travel technologist and digital strategist, Hospitality Net

Hoteliers who are unwilling to invest in the latest revenue management technologies are the ones “stuck in the rut.” Less than 5% of independent hoteliers have a revenue management system (RMS) in place, many branded hoteliers are stuck with their hotel chain's less than adequate RMS technology.

Michael Schubach
Michael Schubach, Vice President of Product Management for Infor Hospitality, Infor

Is revenue management not keeping pace with today's world? How condescending to assume that a lack of reinvention every decade is a sign of incapacity. Think back to the promise that revenue management systems made: a property could see its revenue increase by a minimum of five percent by opting into an electronic revenue management system.

Floor Bleeker
Floor Bleeker, Global technology executive, board advisor, and investor, IN2 Consulting

While having a revenue management system was a competitive advantage in the past, it's now commonplace. We are close to what the airlines are struggling with for years, they all use the same algorithms and they all end up with the same pricing.

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