A hospitality consultant argues that most hotels lose ancillary revenue not from product gaps, but from poor language framing, mistimed offerings, and invisible services that prevent willing guests from spending.
A vacation rental operator argues the industry lacks a unified financial standard, proposing an "Owner-Adjusted Performance Report" that consolidates both management company and property owner costs into a single net return view.
The final installment of an 8-part series argues that RevPAR is a vanity metric, urging hoteliers to measure profit kept after acquisition costs and total guest spend instead.
Visa Destinations is an interesting development, but it's too early to call it a major shift in hotel distribution. Visa has huge global reach through its billions of payment cards, giving it the potential to become a significant travel booking platform.
I wrote some time back about the emergence of banking as a genuine alternative to traditional distribution and their depth of customer intelligence as compared to other business types competing for the same customer.It’s a mistake to look at this strictly through the lens of Visa's direct customer relationships or draw parallels to Amazon's travel missteps.
Visa's 4.3 billion cards in circulation miss something AMEX has: an aspirational brand cardholders actively choose because of what it says about them.That distinction matters more than scale here. Amex built travel credibility over decades with their concierge desks, Centurion Lounges, curated hotel collections...
Using the England vs. Argentina narrative as a lens, the piece argues hoteliers must price from live booking data and pickup curves, not gut feel, reputation, or the story a date seems to tell.
Using sports betting market logic, the author argues hotels lose revenue on peak nights by leaving discounts active, ignoring LOS controls, or allowing parity gaps when demand guarantees full occupancy.
The article argues summer revenue leakage stems from slow decision workflows, not unpredictable demand, and outlines a phased shift from static reporting to live, bounded automation.
An automation specialist quantifies OTA virtual card revenue leakage, showing 11 hotels recovered $228K in unprocessed balances in one month, saving ~3,600 labor hours annually.
Sage Hospitality's Jeff Michael joins Revinate's Hotel Moment podcast to discuss how hotels can move from data paralysis to action, aligning revenue, sales, and marketing teams around profitability.
A hotel controller's years of documented AR warnings go unheeded as a trade group racks up $221,000 in unpaid bills before filing for bankruptcy, illustrating the cost of poor credit controls and misaligned sales incentives.
GAIN Advisors and Crowdpowder will offer hospitality and travel tech startups a structured route to raise EUR 350K to EUR 5M per round via community-based equity campaigns across the UK, EU, and Canada.
Industry leaders from Dragonfly Strategists and Duetto argue that hotels must move beyond RevPAR to profitability metrics like GOPAR, with smarter segmentation, ancillary strategy, and personalization at scale.
Peachtree Group, with $10B+ in committed capital, joins Goldman Sachs Custody Solutions to give RIAs streamlined access to its private CRE and credit strategies.
As automated pricing engines take over rate-setting, the revenue manager's core skill is shifting from making pricing decisions to interpreting, tracing, and defending rates across channels no single system can see whole.
As hotels cede rate-setting to autonomous revenue systems, a legal and operational paradox emerges: they own the price but no longer author it, creating antitrust exposure and eroding managerial accountability.
The article argues that RevPAR's failure to account for labor inflation, OTA commissions, and channel mix has decoupled revenue growth from profit, and calls for a shift to GOPPAR, CPOR, and GOP Index as primary management metrics.
A practical guide for independent hoteliers to build a weekly demand-spotting routine using booking pace, local events, and competitor behavior to price proactively.
DayBlink GPO's 1,100+ luxury independent hotel members can now earn cashback and automate back-office tasks through SwiftPay, OneJourney's AI-powered B2B payment platform, at no cost.
The EU Tourism Platform consolidates EU, national, and regional funding sources in one place, helping tourism businesses including SMEs access grants and programs supporting green transition, digital transformation, and job creation.
Analysis of the 2025 Bordeaux En Primeur campaign finds pricing better aligned with market conditions than recent vintages, with the 2025 vintage ranking among the three best in 18 years by critic scores.