by Joe Rice | Jan 21, 2020 | Hotel Industry, Industry Trends
The new year is here and we are already seeing a new direction for the industry in terms of being shaped by a specific demographic of traveler as well as some marketing and amenity trends coming to fruition. The year is young, so if you are not capitalizing or...
by Amanda Ferrin | Jan 17, 2020 | Hotel Industry
What is RevPAR? Revenue per available room (RevPAR) is a performance metric that assesses both the room revenue and the occupancy rate of a hotel. This metric helps hotels measure their performance in order to accurately price rooms. It’s often used to help...
by Joe Rice | Jan 14, 2020 | Hotel Industry
As a leader of a team, the one thing you can never do is make an assumption… about anything. Having said that, some assumptions are worse to make than others. Over the years and through talking to other hospitality managers, this topic has been discussed thoroughly...
by Joe Rice | Jan 7, 2020 | Hotel Industry
If there is one thing we have plenty of in the hospitality industry, it is stress. Unlike many other industries, though, we can never show it in front of our staff or in front of the guest. This is not an accounting job where you can hide in a corner and shout. In our...
by Joe Rice | Dec 31, 2019 | Hotel Industry
Online reviews are the life and death of any hotel. We have covered the statistics on this several times, so I won’t rehash them again here. The only point I will make on that point is the vast majority of consumers check reviews before ever making a purchase. They...
by Joe Rice | Dec 26, 2019 | Hotel Industry
Our 2019 year is almost closed out. If you are like most hospitality managers, you are probably wishing you could have made a few different decisions along the way that would have helped improve customer service scores and/or employee morale. Well, it being the end of...
