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The Future of Hotel Procurement is in the Cloud—Here’s Why

Cumbersome, expensive on-premise systems are also not flexible enough to handle today’s evolving challenges and demands in hotel procurement. ... The cloud typically makes the entire procurement cycle more transparent, which can not only aid in better cost control and forecasting but also enable more strategic supplier relationship management.

Will AI Replace Hotel Revenue Managers? Answering the Million Dollar Question

As the system analyzes more data and makes more decisions, it becomes better at predicting demand and optimizing pricing and inventory. ... AI will serve as a powerful ally, enhancing the performance of revenue managers by automating mundane tasks and providing decision intelligence for better forecasting and smarter pricing.

The Ever-Evolving Roles and Marketing and Revenue Management

Working together to understand where gaps in the business exist, whether they are natural soft spots in demand or deficits created by unexpected circumstances such as a group drop or weather event, is ... Marketing efforts and their results should be discussed at the same time that forecast, pricing and control discussions are taking place, as one enhances and supports the other.

Deloitte: Key forces reshaping the travel and tourism industry

Deloitte’s Future of Consumer forecasts that the changes of the past 20 years “will pale in comparison to the paradigm shift we are about to see in the coming decade.” ... Over the coming decade, even greater investment and innovation is needed as suppliers likely face climate-related pressure on three key fronts: Demand for clear sustainability metrics and ways to mitigate