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		<title>Hotels should stop discounting</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I came across this video, regarding the discounting price strategy of hotels. As I have posted before, discounting is a negative pricing strategy, which could cause more damage than good on the long term. As it is easy to drop the rates, but harder to increase the rates. An alternative strategy would be to [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By far the most interesting supply chain in hotel industry is the development of the Online Travel Agents (OTA). As the competition is increasing, the OTA&#8217;s are continuous looking into ways how to improve business. The first start happened with preferred listings, which resulted in a higher commission charge to the hotels. Hotels could improve [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revenue Management is in many occasion confused with strategic pricing. It is a part of the revenue management practices but you cannot rely only on your strategic pricing plan. You need constantly update yourself with relevant information, if possible daily.  Besides this information stream you need to apply rate discipline in your drive to maximize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel Management Firms are moving into Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret, and currently happening in the whole Hospitality world, management take overs. As more properties getting into financial problems to create a return, they are focusing on the help of the bigger brand to help them out. In the past 4 months, Phuket has seen changes in management in many sectors. As [...]]]></description>
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