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IDeaS RevPlan Total Revenue Forecasting Module to Be Piloted by Loews Hotels & Co
IDeaS | April 6, 2022
Hotel brand embarks on a journey beyond rooms revenue management toward total profit optimization with IDeaS MINNEAPOLIS—April 6, 2022—IDeaS, a SAS company, the world’s leading provider of hospitality revenue management software and services, announced today Loews Hotels & Co will pilot the total revenue forecasting module in IDeaS RevPlan, a cloud-based tool that streamlines forecasting and budgeting processes for rooms, food and beverage, and other income. Loews has already successfully leveraged RevPlan’s automated financial forecasting capabilities for guest rooms, gaining significant time savings across its portfolio. The...
It’s Time for Hotel Finance Teams to Re-Evaluate Their Budget ‘Drivers’
Jill Wilder | September 14, 2021
By Jill Wilder As we are all aware, budgeting for 2022 will present some challenges, without a crystal ball we are going to need to use our knowledge to form new ways to plan for our future. While historical drivers helped hoteliers in previous years with their future planning, it’s a whole new ballgame today, as the very way a hotel operates is radically different from even a year ago. As in the past, just comparing departmental profits from previous months is just one piece of the puzzle. To have better, more accurate budgeting numbers for the year ahead, hoteliers need to re-evaluate their drivers and establish a new baseline data set...
Aptech Offers Hoteliers Six Budgeting Tips for 2021
Aptech Computer Systems Inc. | September 29, 2020
At a time when revenues are at their lowest, it’s critical that operators understand where to trim costs and how to track spending per occupied room using historical drivers PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29, 2020 — With operating budgets thrown out the window by second quarter this year, hoteliers are scrambling to find useful historical data to help guide them through the 2021 budgeting and forecasting process. Aptech, a provider of budgeting and forecasting, enterprise accounting, and business intelligence solutions for hotels, is advising operators to rely on historical drivers rather than bottom line revenues to help them better plan for the d...
How to Create a Forecast Plan for Hotel Businesses in Unknown Times
Global Asset Solutions | September 11, 2020
With the advent of the ‘new normal’, hotel owners and operators must begin considering the various financial and operational scenarios in their forecasts extending into 2021. Accurate forecasting is notoriously tricky, even in "business as usual" times. Often, some operators need more pressure to deliver detailed breakdown forecasts and they rarely extend more than three months in the future. The objective of a forecast plan is to ask the hotel operator to propose tangible actions: to increase the performance of specific areas of the hotel, to manage the production of the personnel, to schedule productive activities and to increase custom...
IDeaS and SIHOT Expand Partnership to Provide Seamless Two-Way Data Integration for Hoteliers
IDeaS | June 4, 2020
Long-term partnership optimizes revenue for all hotels and room types and delivers increased operational effectiveness through automated pricing decisions LONDON—June 4, 2020—IDeaS, the leader in revenue management solutions, announced today a new technology integration with SIHOT. The two-way data integration between IDeaS’ revenue management solutions and SIHOT’s leading property management software, SIHOT.PMS, will help the global hotel industry accurately forecast business demand, maximize occupancy and ADR and increase overall operational effectiveness through automated pricing decisions. Increases revenue, productivity a...
Operating Performance at Low Occupancy Levels
Robert Mandelbaum | April 17, 2020
By Robert Mandelbaum Since January 2020, CBRE Hotels Research has been analyzing the impact of the COVID-19 virus to understand how the societal and economic impacts of COVID-19 will influence the performance of U.S. hotels. Initial guidance came in the form of updated Hotel Horizons® forecasts of occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR for the nation’s chain-scales, location categories, and 60 major markets. Concurrently, we relied on the historical relationship between declines in RevPAR to estimate the potential decreases in profits. For example, a 20 percent decline in RevPAR for a full-service hotel during 2009 resulted, on average, in a...
Real Hospitality Group Adopts Full Suite of ProfitSword Business Intelligence and Data Management Solutions
ProfitSword, LLC | January 28, 2020
Rapidly expanding hotel management company implements ProfitSage, ProfitPlan, ProfitPace and ProfitWizard to maximize business strategy efficiency and ability to achieve even greater organizational growth. OCEAN CITY, Md. (January 28, 2020) – ProfitSword, hospitality’s premier developer of business intelligence and data integration software, has been selected by Real Hospitality Group in order to obtain a real-time and fully comprehensive overview of its financial performance across the breadth of its organization. Recognized as one of the fastest growing hotel management companies in the U.S. and renowned for its corporate responsibil...
Hotel Data Digest: Seasonality vs. Moving Average
HotStats | November 4, 2019
Tracking the evolution of key performance indicators (KPIs) over time allows hoteliers to identify meaningful trends, create forecasts and budgets and assess the results of different strategies. To perform this kind of analysis, data has to be recorded within consistent time intervals and in chronological order. This is known as a time series. For example, daily occupancy for the past month is a time series: data (occupancy) is recorded within a consistent time interval (daily) and is chronologically displayed. There are many ways of looking at a time series, depending on the kind of insights you want to extract from it. In this article, w...
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