While having a fully booked hotel is something every hotel owner or manager desires, the truth is it's not enough. Why? Because being fully booked doesn't mean you're maximizing your revenue. The only way to achieve this is to have a strategic pricing strategy that takes into account various factors such as market demand, competitor...
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In today's competitive market, revenue management is key for hotels to optimize revenue opportunities. With digitally-savvy and cost-conscious travelers on the rise, hotels must maximize profits while providing top-notch service. That's why we've put together five best practices for revenue management that can help hotels boost their bottom line.From conducting competition analysis to implementing dynamic pricing and...
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There are many tools that we count on every day, and we assume that they should always be working. But what happens when that is not the case? Take accounting software, which forms the backbone of any business. It is used every day, all day, to pay bills, record revenue, and generate financial reports. It is vital to the success of a hotel business, and if the accounting software is not performing reliably, it affects not just your employees’ frustration level, but it has a real cost to your business.
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Perhaps there is no topic more talked about in the hotel industry right now than the labor shortage. And there is no shortage of input on how you can address this challenge. Most advice focuses on front of house labor with solutions from robots and self-check in kiosks to cross training and sharing employees between hotels. But are you doing all you can on the back end to manage your labor expense, drive accountability down to the manager level, and even retain employees?
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Hotel Investor Apps (HIA), the leading hotel-specific Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform, today announced its integration with Netchex, a payroll, benefits, and HR company with a strong focus on the hospitality industry, enabling HIA business intelligence users to make smarter business and labor decisions with advanced labor analytics.
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One of the advantages of digital transformation is the integration and synchronization of your data. Your banking data should absolutely be included in this process. Cash management is too important to not have real-time bank balances; and modern banking integration technology makes it easy to access.
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The role of the hotel company CFO is changing. There is tremendous pressure on accounting teams to deliver information and financial reporting quickly as operation department leaders depend upon timely financial analysis to take quick action in changing markets.
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Hospitality leaders know that sharing data across departments and across different software systems is the key to understanding trends and making strategic business decisions. Streamline operations, manage costs, reduce errors, save time, and get more business intelligence with automatic integration of the Point of Sale (POS) system data with your hotel accounting software, while also automatically integrating the Property Management System (PMS) data.
According to the HVS presentation at the Lodging Conference, hotel net income, as a percentage of revenue, peaked in 2015 and has declined for 3 years in a row. The dilemma for hotel management companies is how to carry more top line revenues through to bottom line profits.
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