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How much are mobile devices like smartphones and tablets influencing your hotel's revenues? Plenty. Here's why... A growing number of people are using mobile devices to book hotel rooms and the percentages will keep rising. In the first half of 2014, for the travel segment as a whole, bookings via mobile devices grew by 20% increase in , while the growth in bookings from desktop sites was only 2%. During this period, 21% of all hotel bookings were made through mobile d...

It's a really exciting time for the hospitality industry in Latin America. With the number of international arrivals growing consistently, the region is currently has a large number of new rooms in the pipeline. According to the February 2015 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report, there are 451 hotels constituting a total of 71,876 rooms Under Contract in the Central/South America region. That's a 17.8% increase over last February. Leading this boom is Rio de Janeiro,...

Competitor pricing and demand & supply... Is that all there is to calculating the right transient price? Or, is there something more important? When a customer chooses a hotel, the most important element that comes into the decision is 'value'. When I use the word value, I am not referring to five star service, champagne on arrival or any other luxuries. While price answers the question, "What do I pay?", value answers the question, "What do I get for what I pay?...

ITB Berlin, one of the world’s leading travel trade shows, is just a few days away. The event hosts 10,000 exhibitors from 180 nations. It is visited by over 20,000 people and has a turnover of EUR6 billion. ITB Berlin is an exciting opportunity for revenue managers, general managers and hotel owners to stay in touch with the latest trends in the travel space and network. However, the sheer scale of the event can sometimes make it challenging to spend time in the most p...

RateGain, the global leader in hotel online distribution, rate shopping and channel management solutions, has today announced their partnership with Accor Hotels, and a global partnership agreement has been signed. With this new partnership, Accor Germany has rolled out RateGain’s rate shopping tool – PriceGain – to all its managed/owned hotels, and the franchise hotels can benefit also from this global partnership agreement. PriceGain tool will support these hotels on a dail...

RateGain was recently honoured as one of India’s top innovative mid-sized companies in the product and high technology category at the 2nd Inc. India Innovative100 Conference and Awards gala that was held on January 29, 2015 at Hotel Radisson Blu, New Delhi. The selected winning companies are those that demonstrated a unique and innovative approach of solving business problems and providing fresh case studies of managing and growing companies in India. In its 2nd year,...

2014 turned out to be a very exciting year for hotels in Europe. In year-end 2014, Europe witnessed a total demand of 1.1 million rooms sold, one of the highest in a decade. Occupancy grew by 2.1% to 68.8% ADR grew by 3.6% to EUR106.09 RevPAR grew by 5.8% to EUR73.03 (Source: STR Global) 2015 is also projected to be a very exciting year. A weaker Euro, lower oil prices and the European Central Bank's recent fiscal measures all point to a sunny 2015. The European c...