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Should hoteliers allow group bookings via the OTAs?

The OTAs have been trying to enter the leisure group booking market for decades now. Traditionally, hoteliers have been reluctant to allow the OTAs to enter the lucrative group market, limiting their OTA exposure to the transient leisure and unmanag...

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Revenue Optimization
Silvia Cantarella by Silvia Cantarella
Jos Schaap
Timothy R. Wiersma
Ira Vouk
13 views 2 February 2023
Should hoteliers allow group bookings via the OTAs?
Viewpoint

Exploring the Practical Business Applications of the Metaverse. What do hotels need to know?

During the first three episodes of Polybius, Hospitality Net’s metaverse series focused on travel and hospitality, we discussed the basics (if you missed them, you can rewatch them here: https://www.hospitalitynet.org/polybius/).

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Metaverse and Web3 in Hospitality
Simone Puorto by Simone Puorto
Brian Vertone
Michael Cohen
Luca De Giglio
15 views 17 January 2023
Exploring the Practical Business Applications of the Metaverse. What do hotels need to know?
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From "Avatar" to "Wallet": the definitive metaverse glossary for dummies

If companies want to get into the metaverse business, they first must master the "metaverse lingo." It’s easy to get lost in translation, with dozens of brand-new mysterious acronyms (NFT, DAO, DeFi...) and business neologisms (mining, minting, drop...

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Metaverse and Web3 in Hospitality
Simone Puorto by Simone Puorto
Adam Mogelonsky
Eli Strzelecka
Arul Prakash
18 views 19 December 2022
From "Avatar" to "Wallet": the definitive metaverse glossary for dummies
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A hotel pass for unlimited stays?

Frontier Airlines, a budget airline based out of Denver, Colorado, announced an "all you can fly" promotion that offers pass holders unlimited domestic flights, including to Puerto Rico.

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Digital Marketing in Hospitality
Max Starkov by Max Starkov
Larry Mogelonsky
Erik Muñoz
Charlie Osmond
11 views 7 December 2022
A hotel pass for unlimited stays?
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Is the fine line between data driven decision making and analysis paralysis unavoidable?

As most of us have already heard, 90% of the world’s data was created in the last ten years, and the amount of data created grows at a faster rate every year. The hotel industry is far from immune, with the various sources of business intelligence a...

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Revenue Optimization
Scott Dahl by Scott Dahl
Ira Vouk
Raul Moronta
Bartnick
13 views 30 November 2022
Is the fine line between data driven decision making and analysis paralysis unavoidable?
Viewpoint

Hotels and the Perfect Storm: Dealing with the global polycrisis

Risks affecting the hospitality industry are not only related to inflation, war, and geopolitics. Science has proven that climate-related risks and biodiversity loss are a threat to the fabric of society. The convergence of global systemic risks has...

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Sustainability in Hospitality
Maribel Esparcia Pérez by Maribel Esparcia Pérez
Florian Kaefer
Stefan Gössling
Natasha Montesalvo
12 views 17 November 2022
Hotels and the Perfect Storm: Dealing with the global polycrisis
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An open metaverse for an open, decentralized industry. A necessity or a want?

According to the World Economic Forum, a working metaverse has three key components: presence, interoperability, and standardization.

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Metaverse and Web3 in Hospitality
Simone Puorto by Simone Puorto
Eli Strzelecka
Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Luca De Giglio
19 views 15 November 2022
An open metaverse for an open, decentralized industry. A necessity or a want?
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Revenue management & customer satisfaction: friends, foes, somewhere in between?

In the early stages of Revenue Management, cranking up rates when the hotel was on a clear path to selling out was about all it took to be a successful Revenue Manager. But as digital transformation has taken hold in hotels, the role, and the defini...

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Revenue Optimization
Scott Dahl by Scott Dahl
Bartnick
Max Starkov Author yearbook
Raul Moronta
8 views 3 November 2022
Revenue management & customer satisfaction: friends, foes, somewhere in between?
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Are we entering the "Ancillary Revenue Revolution" in the Hospitality Industry?

To "four airlines," CarTrawler chief commercial officer Aileen McCormack said, ancillary revenue is already the "predominant revenue source." She calls this phenomenon the "ancillary revenue revolution." However, in our industry, up/cross-selling se...

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Information Technology
Simone Puorto by Simone Puorto
Juanjo Rodriguez
John Owen
Jos Schaap
11 views 25 October 2022
Are we entering the "Ancillary Revenue Revolution" in the Hospitality Industry?
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Introduction to the Metaverse: from sci-fi to a 5-trillion-dollar industry

A recent report by McKinsey indicates that the metaverse’s economic potential could be up to five trillion dollars by 2030. However, while most people think the metaverse concept only started with Zuckerberg’s rebrand, innovators and visionaries hav...

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Metaverse and Web3 in Hospitality
Simone Puorto by Simone Puorto
Salman Halawi
Roberto Garavaglia
Eli Strzelecka
20 views 18 October 2022
Introduction to the Metaverse: from sci-fi to a 5-trillion-dollar industry
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Evolving from managing revenue to maximizing profit... How do you measure it?

For as long as most hoteliers can remember, RevPAR has widely been accepted as the most critical hotel performance KPI. Taking both occupancy and average rate into consideration, RevPAR indicates how successful the hotel has been filling its perisha...

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Revenue Optimization
Scott Dahl by Scott Dahl
Jos Schaap
Timothy R. Wiersma
Ira Vouk
12 views 6 October 2022
Evolving from managing revenue to maximizing profit... How do you measure it?
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Calculating Flow Thru - What’s the Correct Formula?

Flow thru is a concept, how much of the additional revenue generated from one period to another is kept as profit? Performing flow thru or as some call it retention calculations can be confusing. Especially when one or both of the numbers is a negat...

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Hospitality Financial Leadership
David Lund by David Lund
Agnes DeFranco
Lakshmi Narasimhan Soundararajan
Ralph Miller
4 views 27 September 2022
Calculating Flow Thru - What’s the Correct Formula?
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Beyond Hospitality: Should Individuals have a Personal Carbon Allowance?

There is a large global inequality in carbon emissions. Per capita emissions range from less than 1 metric tonne to more than 35 tonnes1 of CO2e with a global average of roughly 4.5 tonnes per capita2. Aligning the global community to the Paris Agre...

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Sustainability in Hospitality
Willy Legrand by Willy Legrand
Maurice Bergin
Natasha Montesalvo
Elena Cavagnaro
12 views 22 September 2022
Beyond Hospitality: Should Individuals have a Personal Carbon Allowance?
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To automate, or not to automate? The Hospitality Industry’s soliloquy.

Hospitality has been historically sluggish in automation adoption, mainly due to prejudice towards a notion that has always been (wrongly) considered the "human touch" antithesis. However, according to CVENT, over 56% of hospitality professionals an...

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Information Technology
Simone Puorto by Simone Puorto
Mark Fancourt
Max Starkov Author yearbook
Luis Segredo
18 views 20 September 2022
To automate, or not to automate? The Hospitality Industry’s soliloquy.
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Will hoteliers start investing adequately in technology in 2023?

The hotel budgeting season for 2023 has begun in earnest and a very important question is whether hoteliers will budget adequately for technology in their 2023 budgets.

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Information Technology
Max Starkov by Max Starkov
Ian Millar Yearbook
Mark Fancourt
Binu Mathews
11 views 19 September 2022
Will hoteliers start investing adequately in technology in 2023?
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