The Wallet vs. The Web: How Banks Are Disrupting the Travel Industry
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The Wallet vs. The Web: How Banks Are Disrupting the Travel Industry

The travel industry has spent the last decade fighting the “Price Parity” war. Airlines fought Online Travel Agencies (OTAs), hotels fought wholesalers, and everyone fought Google.

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Co Founder & Principal Consultant, TRAVHOTECH
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by Mark Fancourt
11 December 2025TRAVHOTECHFinance & Accounting
The Wallet vs. The Web: How Banks Are Disrupting the Travel Industry
Looking for Higher Profitability? Start Your Workflow Automation the Right Way
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Looking for Higher Profitability? Start Your Workflow Automation the Right Way

In today’s hospitality environment (see our previous article), “do more with less” has become more than a mantra, it’s a structural necessity. Modern workflow automation has reached a mature stage; it’s a practical, proven lever for operational tran...

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Founder and CEO, Robosize ME
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by Stephen Burke
3 December 2025Robosize MEFinance & Accounting
Looking for Higher Profitability? Start Your Workflow Automation the Right Way
Forecasts are Falling: It’s Time to Look Inward and Refine Your 2026 Plan
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Forecasts are Falling: It’s Time to Look Inward and Refine Your 2026 Plan

The final U.S. hotel performance forecast of 2025 is in – and it’s not the news many hoped for. According to the latest from CoStar and Tourism Economics, both 2025 and 2026 projections have again been downgraded across occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR, s...

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by Rob Lawrence
14 November 2025OtelierFinance & Accounting
Forecasts are Falling: It’s Time to Look Inward and Refine Your 2026 Plan
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How the USALI 12th Revised Edition Enhances Hotel Benchmarking and Drives Hotel Performance

Questions are commonplace in any hotel business. Who hasn’t been in a budget meeting or financial review when someone has asked if the food and beverage margins are competitive, or if the spa department should be generating more revenue, or how labo...

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Senior Vice President of Learning, HFTP
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by Arlene Ramirez
7 November 2025HFTPFinance & Accounting
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2025 Lodging Tax Report - USA

Since room sales generate lodging tax revenues, an overview of hotel market trends provides insight into the industry’s current and future fiscal impacts. As documented in our 2024 HVS Lodging Tax Study, the national lodging market has experienced r...

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Managing Director of HVS Convention, Sports, & Entertainment Facilities Consulting in Chicago
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How Hoteliers are Moving from Green Screens to Guided Insights
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How Hoteliers are Moving from Green Screens to Guided Insights

Hotel tech looks simple from the lobby; but as we know, behind the front desk it’s anything but. Recently, Otelier’s Distinguished Architect Lex Raleigh sat down with SnapLogic CMO Dayle Hall to explain why hospitality’s data problem is unlike any o...

Jason Q. Freed
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Hospitality Data Evangelist
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by Jason Q. Freed
23 October 2025OtelierFinance & Accounting
How Hoteliers are Moving from Green Screens to Guided Insights
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Is your hotel demand forecast stuck in the past? Why relying on historical data could be costing you money

Here’s the core truth: sole reliance on internal historical data represents a fragile forecasting strategy in such a dynamic environment, which can hinder your profitability.

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Jonathan Gough
Content Team Lead at Lighthouse
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by Jonathan Gough
15 October 2025LighthouseFinance & Accounting
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Begin With The End In Mind – Creating a Financially Engaged Leadership Team In Your Hotel
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Begin With The End In Mind – Creating a Financially Engaged Leadership Team In Your Hotel

Creating a financially engaged leadership team in your hotel is no different from creating a strong guest service culture or a team that has colleague and leader engagement as their mission. What you attend to grows, it’s that simple. What’s differe...

David Lund
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The Hotel Financial Coach
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by David Lund
6 October 2025David LundFinance & Accounting
Begin With The End In Mind – Creating a Financially Engaged Leadership Team In Your Hotel