Hotel Booking Curve
To be able to make solid decisions without any doubts, it is advisable to convert the data from your pick-up reports into graphs. A booking curve graph will help you visualize the booking pace of your hotel. Hotel revenue management is about data driven decisions.
Below an example:
All the cancellations will be taken into consideration on the reservations curve.
Identify your Hot Days (or cold Days) Is it what you expected? If not;
- Analyze
- Understand
- Can you influence it?
- How is it affecting your forecast?
- Are you loosing opportunities?

Develop a tool which allows comparison i.e. last year same day versus this year pick up or past 5 Wednesdays as per following graph.