Distribution et Revenue Management

🏨 Increase direct hotel bookings by: ensuring a clear, mobile-optimized website; integrating a simple reservation engine on every page with transparent prices; offering exclusive direct booking benefits; connecting to Google Hotel Ads; reaching out to past clients with special offers and promo codes; responding quickly to direct inquiries; and training staff in conversion techniques. Utilize tools like GuestDiary to centralize messages and streamline operations, aiming to reduce OTA commissions and boost sustainable revenue. Contact GuestDiary.fr for personalized assistance in enhancing direct reservation strategies.

💼 Hospitality business owners struggling with recruitment can now test candidates through immersion without commitment, using "Les entreprises s’engagent" platform's professional immersion tool. This process allows employers to assess candidates' skills and fit in real working conditions. It's a simple, contract-free process managed by a straightforward convention. The platform enables account creation, immersion offer publication, and receipt of pre-selected applications via France Travail or employment partners. Additionally, immersions can identify potential profiles for future needs and contribute to local community engagement, thereby boosting employer branding.

🏨 Oliver Sedlinger, founder of Sedlinger & Associates and based in Beijing, is an expert helping European and international hotels with strategies to attract and manage Chinese clientele. Working with local market professionals who know the cultural codes, contacts, and opportunities is crucial for hotel management. Each region, such as China, Middle East, Latin America, or Europe, requires specific knowledge. World Hospitality Alliance highlights the importance of experts like Sedlinger for success in distinctive markets like China.

📢 HotelPartner provides continuous support and strategy adjustments post-implementation for hotels. Their teams conduct weekly "performance points" to analyze key indicators such as occupancy rate (TO), revenue per available room (RevPAR), and pickup. The strategy is dynamically adjusted to market realities rather than being static, including targeted promotions, last-minute demand responses, and tariff repositioning. A hotel increased its RevPAR by 23% focusing on the low season, while another attracted international clientele with adjusted channels and descriptions. HotelPartner's commitment is for the long term, emphasizing regular follow-up and concrete decision-making.

🏨 Accor, a leading hotel operator in Australia and New Zealand, will manage three iconic properties starting May 2025 through a major agreement with Bayview International Hotels & Resorts. The properties include The Sydney Boulevard Hotel in Sydney, Australia, Bayview Geographe Resort in Busselton, Western Australia, and Wairakei Resort Taupo in Taupo, New Zealand. Accor seeks to enhance the customer experience with their brands and loyalty program. Prior to rebranding, the hotels will undergo extensive renovations to refresh these popular destinations while operating under their current names during the refurbishment.

🏨 Whitbread, owner of Premier Inn, plans sale and leaseback worth at least £1 billion to support five-year growth strategy despite UK hotel market slowdown. Plan includes returning £2 billion to shareholders and expanding Premier Inn in the UK and Europe. For the 52 weeks ending February 27, 2025, revenue slightly down by 1% to £2.92 billion, with Premier Inn UK sales dropping 3% to £2.69 billion. Adjusted profits fell 14% to £483 million, statutory pre-tax profits down 19% to £368 million. To boost growth, 1,000-1,200 new UK rooms planned, converting 112 branded restaurants into hotel rooms, alongside a £250 million share buyback program.

🎫 L'Afnic warns about rising online ticket fraud for attractions, concerts, sports events, museums. Springtime sees the reopening of amusement parks and zoos, but also a surge in fake ticketing sites leading to invalid tickets or lost money. Afnic advises verifying website and email authenticity to avoid typosquatting scams, where domains closely mimic official sites.

🏨 Un système de gestion des revenus (RMS) pour les hôtels, tel qu'Atomize de Mews, optimise automatiquement les tarifs pour maximiser les réservations et les revenus. Les hôtels utilisant Atomize ont enregistré jusqu'à 35% d'augmentation du revenu par chambre disponible (RevPAR) et jusqu'à 37% d'augmentation du tarif journalier moyen (ADR). Un RMS analyse les tendances historiques, les tarifs de la concurrence, la demande du marché et les événements locaux. Il n'élimine pas le besoin d'un responsable des revenus mais permet d'automatiser les tâches répétitives et de se concentrer sur la stratégie. Un RMS est particulièrement bénéfique pour les hôtels ayant plus de 10 chambres, et pour les chaînes d'hôtels, il offre une gestion multisites et une distribution optimisée. Atomize, maintenant partie de Mews, intègre l'IA pour des recommandations tarifaires et une analyse du marché en temps réel, aidant à la prise de décision et à l'ajustement des stratégies tarifaires.

📱 Upselling through a digital welcome booklet is a golden feature to generate additional revenue by promoting extra services. It provides an opportunity to offer travelers items like a bottle of wine, an appetizer platter, or a canoe outing directly after the initial welcoming procedures, including the QR code activation, creating a "wow" effect. Implementing upselling is easy and can significantly boost income.

💸 Visa2fly, an Indian startup specializing in AI-powered visa processing, secured a $2 million funding round (equivalent to €1.7 million) led by M Venture Partners with contributions from Flipkart Ventures, FinSight Ventures, and Thinkuvate. With its base in Gurgaon, the company aims to enhance technology-based verification tools, improve visa processing automation, and strengthen partnerships with travel platforms. Visa2fly has processed 1.5 million visa applications and collaborates with travel OTAs such as Ixigo and WeGo, payment companies like Niyo Global, and airlines including Spicejet. Founded in 2022, Visa2fly offers visa services to over 70 destinations and is committed to using AI to streamline key processes and improve travel document management's efficiency, contrasting with firms like Visamundi that doubt full automation. The travel technology market is projected to reach $31.38 billion by 2030, as per Mordor Intelligence.