Since Covid-19 has intensified the need for changes in customer and business relationships, this provocative article by Holly Stiel explores the valuable relationship between businesses, their customers and their teams. Learn how to be the employer of choice through understand the importance of emotional labor in order to win the hearts/minds of your team. READ MORE

After months of travel hesitancy, historically low occupancy rates, a remote workforce, and gale-force challenges, calmer skies are on the horizon for the hospitality and travel industries. While this economic distribution tested even our most veteran industry leaders, we've weathered the storm ready to innovate, improve and change the ways we do business. Necessity, after all, is the mother of invention. READ MORE

Good revenue management defines a property's bottom line. A profit management strategy determines a property's net revenue. Revenue management in hotels is a practice that has evolved significantly in its relatively short history, demonstrated great success using inventory, capacity and pricing to 'manage' revenue and probability, although hotel revenue management doesn't evolve fast, strategies aimed at improving it develop in tandem with modern business and technological trends. READ MORE

This article focuses on the trends regarding hotel revenue management in the current lodging workplace. Creation of value and the skill set needed to be successful in revenue management will also be discussed. Finally, the career pathways in the lodging industry for revenue management analysts and managers and they operationalize revenue management as decision-making tools will be discussed. READ MORE

The COVID-19 pandemic unleashed a wave of uncertainty, leaving hotel properties in operational limbo and making forecasts borderline useless as the delta variant continues to disrupt the global economy. As payroll costs and overhead continue to squeeze already-thin margins, carefully curating big data to aid revenue management can help hotels stay in the black. READ MORE