Optimizing your Property’s Revenue Management Strategies

Has the recession decreased your occupancy? RevPAR and ADR falling fast? Need a boost in online sales? This video will provide you with the information that you need to optimize your hotel’s revenue management strategy and the tools necessary to optimize online bookings, increase occupancy, ADR and RevPAR. ...more

A Social Media ROI Story

Queensland’s Best Job: Social media or integrated marketing? ...more

VIDEO: Untapped Online Opportunities

VFM Leonardo, the leader in online visual content distribution for hotels, has launched a new episode on VTV Channel: Untapped Online Opportunities with Felix Laboy, President and General Manager of Sabre Hospitality Solutions. ...more

Food & Beverage - How to Avoid a Price War with Your Competitors - By Ken Burgin

A customer phones, and their first question is one you hate: 'How much are the main courses at your place?' or 'What are your cheapest party menus?' ...more

Reserve Interactive Selects Element Payment Services As Partner For PCI DSS Compliant Processing

ReServe Interactive, a leader in hospitality management software solutions, has selected Element Payment Services as its PCI DSS compliant solutions partner for its suite of Catering, Event Management, Dining Reservations and Table Management software products. ...more

Hotel Nikko Duesseldorf Completes a Two-Year Renovation and Becomes the Largest Hotel in Downtown Düsseldorf, Germany

JAL Hotels Co., Ltd. has announced the opening of a new wing with an additional 42 executive rooms at Hotel Nikko Düsseldorf after a major two-year renovation. The hotel now offers 386 luxury rooms and suites in eight different categories and 18 conference facilities, making it Düsseldorf’s largest downtown hotel and a leading convention destination. ...more

Sheraton Hotels & Resorts Extends Global Footprint with $4 Billion in New Developments Through 2012

Starwood Hotels’ Largest Brand Initiates a Strategic Worldwide Expansion Adding Roughly 50 Hotels and more than 20,000 Guestrooms in the Next Three Years - Brand will Nearly Double Footprint in China - 24 New Hotels in Pipeline ...more

Red Lion Hotels Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results

Fourth quarter RevPAR for owned and leased hotels decreased 7.2%, a sign of slowing RevPAR declines ...more

InterContinental Hotels 2009 Profit Down 19%

InterContinental Hotels 2009 net profit down 19 percent, group expects another tough year ...more

Best Western Allamanda Laguna Phuket Opens

Best Western International announces the opening of Best Western Allamanda Laguna Phuket, situated on beautiful Phuket’s Bang Tao Beach within the stunning environment of the Laguna Phuket integrated resort. It joins the chain’s four other properties on Phuket. ...more

Leland C. Pillsbury Receives ISHC Pioneer Award

One of the hotel industry’s most innovative leaders, Leland C. Pillsbury, co-chairman and chief executive officer of Thayer Lodging Group, was named recipient of the 2010 Pioneer Award by International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC). ...more

HSMAI Holds First Lodging Chief Marketing Officer Roundtable

Industry Thought Leaders Gathered at American Express Headquarters to Discuss 'The New Normal' in Lodging ...more

Does Social Sell?

Brands drive further into social-media arena without money-back guarantees ...more

The Marketing Duo Behind New York's Social Media Hotel

The Roger Smith Hotel may be the most social media savvy hotel in New York - if not the world. ...more

Web Cast – Revenue Management & Social Networks

There has been a great deal of focus on social networks and the sales process but not so much on social networks and the revenue management function. In fact, social networks are a tool that revenue managers must learn to use to use as an integral part of the RM process. ...more

Aloft Piloting Smart Check-In So Guests Bypass Front Desk and Zoom Right to Their Rooms

Made possible through a partnership with VingCard Elsafe, the Smart Check-In caters to a new generation of guests on the go who are more interested in high-tech than high-touch service. Technology has been a vital component of the brand’s DNA from day one, when Aloft Hotels debuted in virtual reality on Second Life. ...more

The Rainmaker Group Attains Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status

Rainmaker’s clients in multifamily housing and hospitality industries benefit ...more

Genares Worldwide Reservations Partners with ResNet World

Genares Worldwide Reservations Services (Genares), the hospitality industry’s leading global representation and hotel reservations company, has formed a strategic partnership with ResNet World, a reservations services company with international headquarters in Dubai, UAE. ...more