Patrick Landman

We have been faced with this challenge many times, and it seems it oftenboils down to the same. It might surprise you that generally the problem is due to a lack of insight in independent hotels on how the travel industry really works. There is also a shortage of understanding in the business in general. As a result hotel assets become distressed and are in dire need to be turned around.

Location is one of the top selection criteria for travelers when choosing a hotel. And yes, location has a big impact on the demand your hotel will generate, and therefore will influence the price you can ask in the market for your rooms. Hence when starting a new hotel, the site selection process is a key step that should not be taken too lightly.

In response to our blog articles on hotel revenue management, we get asked one question very often in particular. 'How do I start a career in revenue management?'. It is posed not only by students nearing the end of their educational program, but also by mid-level managers who have worked in the hospitality industry for a couple of years already. Becoming a hotel revenue manager is their dream job!

No plan is viable without some form of research. Especially if you require outside investment you will need to demonstrate you have done a hotel market study for your new hotel concept. It will also be helpful for you to put your ideas on paper and benchmark them against the market to determine the chance of success. Based on our hotel revenue management consulting and hotel management´s experience we have put some pointers on paper …

Xotels continues to grow adding innovative hotel concepts to our portfolio. So we are once again looking to fill vacancies with new talent to join our team of hotel revenue management and distribution experts. Are you looking for a new challenge in hotel yield? Want to live and work in Barcelona?

We're on a mission to help you select the best channel manager available for you, let's continue. We have covered a number of general system selection criteria in the last release. Due to the important role of channel management within hotel revenue management, we’ll now have a detailed look at rate management, inventory management and security related matters.  We'll continue from where we stopped last time, with your price strategy.