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What is the meaning / definition of a 2 Star Hotel in the hospitality industry? A 2 Star Hotel is a hotel that provides the bare essentials with some comfort quality. Standard (**) [...]
What is the meaning / definition of a 1 Star Hotel in the hospitality industry? A 1 Star Hotel is a hotel that offers only the essentials while still meeting reasonable hygiene and [...]
Operating hotels for over more than a decade and a half with the Xotels team, we have noticed that many hotel owners and investors do not always see the need to engage with a hotel asset manager to oversee the strategic management of their lodging business. But if you're not an industry insider, or are not up to speed with the rapidly evolving complexity and competitiveness of the hospitality industry, you might find yourself with a missed opportunity of optimizing profitability as well as mitigating risk exposure. Hotel Asset Management plays a key role in achieving a strong return on investment.
What is the meaning / definition of Occupancy (OCC) in the hospitality industry? It is a Hotel KPI calculation that shows the percentage of available rooms or beds being sold for a certain [...]
Hotel low season revenue has long been considered to simply be an unfortunate fact of the industry. It brings less demand and, therefore, lower revenues too. But the industry has changed so much in such a short space of time, and hotels no longer have to accept that low season automatically means slow business.
By adopting a proactive stance and implementing a series of tried-and-tested tactics, your hotel can blossom in what traditionally is considered low season. Read on to discover our five best practice steps to attract guests and increase hotel revenue during a low occupancy phase at any time of the year.
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As a hotel revenue management consulting company, we know well when that time of the year arrives again when searches for queries such as "Hotel Marketing Trends x Year" or "Year in Review" literally explode. It looks like, every December, we all transform into new-year-resolutions-freaks.
