Revenue & Distribution
Revenue management and distribution are two sides of the same coin: what you charge and which channel the guest arrives through.
Revenue management and distribution are two sides of the same coin: what you charge and which channel the guest arrives through.
Read → Pricepoint launches Rate War, a free game that measures in two minutes whether a human can beat its AI at setting room rates. The number behind it: nearly 1,100 rates a year at a 20-room hotel.
Read → Accor pivots to emotion, Marriott pushes upgrades to mobile, Barcelona buys retail with tourist money and AI reshuffles discovery and direct booking.
Read → A hospitality veteran tells Hospitality Net how he went from leading teams without a financial base to becoming a controller. Self-belief, he says, was the engine.
Read → More than a million ads impersonate hotels on Google to intercept direct bookings and redirect them to intermediary OTAs.
Read → The day Google stopped filling hotel rates, Mirai opens direct hotel booking inside ChatGPT and Bookassist joins Juniper Group. A map of the distribution that's coming.
Read → Hospitality Net has published a pre-Black Friday checklist for hotel email campaigns: sender reputation, list hygiene and authentication before you hit send.
Read → McKinsey points out that booking has stopped being the end of the purchase journey. For hotels and OTAs, that changes how the funnel is measured and when you can still influence travelers.
Read → 58% of travelers pick free cancellation even when it costs more. Booking anxiety rules the checkout and nonrefundable rates keep losing.
Read → Blastness pushes hotel payments, Wyndham scales Sports Illustrated Resorts, Iberia Express lifts Balearics capacity to 200 weekly flights and Airbnb cools the agentic booking hype.
Read → Agencies and AI agents use guest data to push room upgrades, breakfast or late check-out before the hotel ever gets in touch with the guest.
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