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Revenue Managers have taken the Five Ps away from Marketers

Categories: Analytics, Data, Forecast, Guest Analytics, Hotel Analytics, Marketing, Pricing, Revenue Management, Spa, Total Revenue Management
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For years, we’ve all been reading about the need to coordinate the activities of Revenue Management and Marketing into one synergistic Revenue Generation process. In practice what is really happening in many hotel companies is that the activities of both departments are not merging, but they are instead becoming the domain of Revenue Management. That RM is “taking” away many of Marketing’s traditional roles makes sense. As marketing has become more digital, it has inevitably become more data driven, and in most Read more