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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...

  What's your outlook for your hotel in 2015? With ITB Berlin around the corner, we thought we would share a few interesting trends about the hospitality industry in Europe, and what you should look forward to in 2015. Let's begin with 2014 Looking at STR Global's data for European hotels in 2014 (source: hotelnewsnow), we see a lot of encouraging figures. In year-end 2014, Europe witnessed a total demand of 1.1 million rooms sold, one of the highest in a ...

Today, we are excited to announce our jaw-dropping line up of speakers at the Hotel Revenue Summit, Manila on February 12th, 2015 - Merril Yu and Sunish Sadasivan. If you haven’t taken advantage of being an early registrant for our Manila Summit, now might be the time. Here's why we're so excited about Merril's and Sunish’s attendance and their keynote address at Hotel Revenue Summit, Manila. Merril Yu Hotelier of the Year Awardee The Association of Human Resources Ma...