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Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas to Capitalise on Growth in Retail Travel Market
with IDeaS Pricing and Forecasting Support

All Anantara properties to use IDeaS technology to boost performance in competitive environment

 
Sydney – August 10, 2011 – IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of pricing and revenue management software, services and consulting, today announced a new partnership with Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas, as the hospitality company moves to enhance their pricing and forecasting systems to capitalise on growth within the retail travel market.

Anantara is a leading, Thai-based hospitality company operating 15 hotels in the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Indian Ocean regions, with seven more hotels set to open by the end of the year. After conducting a highly successful trial period, they opted to install a mixture of the IDeaS Forecasting Management System (FMS) and the IDeaS Revenue Management System (RMS) into all of the Anantara owned hotels.

Given the highly competitive and changeable nature of the hospitality industry, Anantara sought to implement a more technologically advanced tool that would better enable the hotel company to manage the constant changes in today’s operating conditions.

“Manually generated data could result in our forecasts being quickly out of date or less accurate, which was not a satisfactory outcome for the hotels. There was an immediate need to help our hotels have a better strategic approach to their business,” said Philip Schaetz as Vice President Revenue Management for Anantara.

In working with IDeaS, Anantara properties decided to deploy the IDeaS FMS at certain properties, and the IDeaS RMS at other properties. The combination of the two systems provides Anantara with accurate pricing and a clear vision to their data across all hotels, bringing additional accuracy and consistency to the revenue management process.

In addition to updating their approach to forecasting, Anantara properties are also looking to capitalise on growth in direct bookings and the retail travel market. Philip Schaetz, Vice President Revenue Management, commented, “What really drew us towards IDeaS was how their systems provide us with an indication of the opportunity costs of selling any given amount of our business at a given wholesale price. This is particularly inspiring for us as the resort market is traditionally driven by wholesale. By working with IDeaS, we have opened the door to strategic thinking to further capitalise on traditional wholesale models; so we are becoming more competitive to inbound inter-Asian markets overall, and can really optimise our business mix.”

“Anantara’s approach to optimising revenue shows that in the dynamic markets across Asia, that a ‘one size fits all’ type of revenue management approach is no longer suitable for all scenarios. IDeaS is able to look at the broader business issues and model the right solutions to address those specific business problems, rather than the legacy approach of only having a single piece of software and trying to fit the solution around it. In the legacy environment, customers are always forced to compromise on either price or functionality. By choosing IDeaS, Anantara did not have to make any compromises to effectively address their needs,” said Grahame Tate, Managing Director of IDeaS APAC.
 
IDeaS is committed to working closely with hotel organisations throughout the Asia-Pacific region to support them in reaching their optimal revenue and profit levels by focusing on the development of a strong revenue management culture.
 
About IDeaS
Founded in 1989, IDeaS Revenue Solutions - a SAS Company, offers industry-leading pricing and revenue management Software, Services, and Consulting to the hospitality and travel industries. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN with our Global Technology center located in Pune, India, IDeaS maintains sales, support and distribution offices in North & South America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia and Asia. For more information, visit www.ideas.com.

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Contact:

Mulberry Marketing Communications
Paul Manser
[email protected]
+613 9626 2423

IDeaS Revenue Solutions
Star Bazella, Marketing Manager
[email protected]
+1 952 698 4200

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