How to increase your hotel’s occupancy rate
As a key performance indicator for your business, it’s important that you understand how to calculate and improve your hotel’s occupancy rate.
Revenue Management
Effective revenue management is one of the most important aspects of running your hotel. You need to make intelligent pricing decisions to drive more guests and profit to your property. Explore our articles for a better understanding of revenue management or download our eBook to get started on the fundamentals at your hotel.
Why you don’t need to be a data-scientist to price your hotel rooms accurately
Hotel room pricing is never easy to perfect, but you don’t need to be a genius or trained data-scientist to get it right at your property.
How far do hotel guests book in advance?
Booking lead times are getting shorter, making it harder for hotels to manage and forecast their revenue. Here are the figures you need to know and ways to solves the issue.
Why your hotel’s channel manager needs the help of a room pricing tool
To quickly set your rates across all your distribution channels, your channel manager software will need the help of a hotel room pricing tool.
Competing with the local hotel market: 5 ways you can stay on top
Maintaining competitiveness in the local hotel market is a constantly and increasingly difficult challenge. These tips from SiteMinder will help you stay on top.
How to price your hotel rooms (when you’re not a revenue manager)
While revenue management can be complex and time-consuming, there are clever ways to make life easier as you strategise your hotel’s pricing. Explore these tips from SiteMinder.
Do you know your RevPAR from your GOPPAR?
Are there too many revenue management metrics? Find out which ones you should be tracking and why.
Meet the creators: SiteMinder’s Mike Rogers says Prophet “is not a revenue management system, it’s a recommendation system”
The Channel Manager and Prophet are SiteMinder's oldest and newest products respectively. CTO Mike Rogers discusses the virtues of the hotel tech solutions.
Free Infographic: 5 ways to get ahead of your local hotel competition
How closely do hotels watch their local competition? SiteMinder gives you 5 quick wins to stay ahead of your competitors.
11 effective ways to boost your hotel’s midweek occupancy and revenue
Discounting is never a good strategy for boosting your hotel's bookings. So here are 11 effective ways to boost your hotel’s midweek occupancy and revenue.
How to manage high occupancy rates and build better guest loyalty programs
When your hotel occupancy is near capacity, it’s the perfect time to work on guest loyalty. Here’s how to engage your guests and improve long-term business.
Hotel Room Pricing Tool: What benefits and features should you look for?
What are the benefits of using a pricing intelligence tool at your hotel? SiteMinder explores the key elements should you need for your pricing strategy?
5 best ancillary revenue ideas for independent hotels
Implementing ancillary revenue ideas will lead to a more fulfilling guest experience and flood your hotel with a whole new source of revenue.
Revenue Management Skills: Are you fully optimising your hotel’s pricing strategy?
What key tactics should you be executing to ensure your hotel’s pricing strategy is up to scratch? Here's your to-do list...
8 reasons your independent hotel needs revenue management technology
Revenue management technology is just as important for smaller hotels as it is for big chains. Here's 8 reasons why you need to pay attention to your data.