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Hotel Pricing in a Social World The Wiley & SAS Business Series presents books that help senior-level managers with their critical management decisions Titles in the Wiley & SAS Business Series include: Agile by Design: An Implementation Guide to Analytic Lifecycle Management by Rachel Alt-Simmons Analytics in a Big Data World: The Essential Guide to Data Science and Its Applications by Bart Baesens Bank Fraud: Using Technology to Combat Losses by Revathi Subramanian Big Data Analytics: Turning Big Data into Big Money by Frank Ohlhorst Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation through Business Analytics by Evan Stubbs Business Analytics for Customer Intelligence by Gert Laursen Business Intelligence Applied: Implementing an Effective Information and Communications Technology Infrastructure by Michael S Gendron Business Intelligence and the Cloud: Strategic Implementation Guide by Michael S Gendron Business Transformation: A Roadmap for Maximizing Organizational Insights by Aiman Zeid Connecting Organizational Silos: Taking Knowledge Flow Management to the Next Level with Social Media by Frank Leistner Data-Driven Healthcare: How Analytics and BI Are Transforming the Industry by Laura Madsen Delivering Business Analytics: Practical Guidelines for Best Practice by Evan Stubbs Demand-Driven Forecasting: A Structured Approach to Forecasting, Second Edition by Charles Chase Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment: Creating a More Efficient Supply Chain by Robert A Davis Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development Investments by Gene Pease, Barbara Beresford, and Lew Walker Economic and Business Forecasting: Analyzing and Interpreting Econometric Results by John Silvia, Azhar Iqbal, Kaylyn Swankoski, Sarah Watt, and Sam Bullard The Executive’s Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy: How Social Networks Are Radically Transforming Your Business by David Thomas and Mike Barlow Financial Institution Advantage & the Optimization of Information Processing by Sean C Keenan Financial Risk Management: Applications in Market, Credit, Asset and Liability Management and Firmwide Risk by Jimmy Skoglund and Wei Chen Foreign Currency Financial Reporting from Euros to Yen to Yuan: A Guide to Fundamental Concepts and Practical Applications by Robert Rowan Fraud Analytics Using Descriptive, Predictive, and Social Network Techniques: A Guide to Data Science for Fraud Detection by Bart Baesens, Veronique Van Vlasselaer, and Wouter Verbeke Harness Oil and Gas Big Data with Analytics: Optimize Exploration and Production with Data Driven Models by Keith Holdaway Health Analytics: Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care by Jason Burke Heuristics in Analytics: A Practical Perspective of What Influences Our Analytical World by Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro and Fiona McNeill Hotel Pricing in a Social World: Driving Value in the Digital Economy by Kelly McGuire Human Capital Analytics: How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization’s Greatest Asset by Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly, and Jac Fitz-enz Implement, Improve and Expand Your Statewide Longitudinal Data System: Creating a Culture of Data in Education by Jamie McQuiggan and Armistead Sapp Killer Analytics: Top 20 Metrics Missing from Your Balance Sheet by Mark Brown Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Developers, Educators, and Learners by Scott McQuiggan, Lucy Kosturko, Jamie McQuiggan, and Jennifer Sabourin Predictive Analytics for Human Resources by Jac Fitz-enz and John Mattox II Predictive Business Analytics: Forward-Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance by Lawrence Maisel and Gary Cokins Retail Analytics: The Secret Weapon by Emmett Cox Social Network Analysis in Telecommunications by Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro Statistical Thinking: Improving Business Performance, Second Edition by Roger W Hoerl and Ronald D Snee Taming the Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics by Bill Franks Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data by Phil Simon Understanding the Predictive Analytics Lifecycle by Al Cordoba Unleashing Your Inner Leader: An Executive Coach Tells All by Vickie Bevenour Using Big Data Analytics: Turning Big Data into Big Money by Jared Dean The Value of Business Analytics: Identifying the Path to Profitability by Evan Stubbs The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions by Phil Simon Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition: Making Data Analysis Lean by Ian Cox, Marie Gaudard, Philip Ramsey, Mia Stephens, and Leo Wright Win with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data by Jean Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott For more information on any of the above titles, please visit www wiley.com Hotel Pricing in a Social World Driving Value in the Digital Economy Kelly A McGuire, PhD Cover images: Abstract background © Getty Images / Studio-Pro; 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Article/14399/Take‐a‐case‐study‐approach‐with‐RM‐talent Yang, S., S E Kimes, and M M Sessarego 2009 “$ or Dollars?: Effects of Menu Price Formats on Customer Price Purchases.” Cornell Hospitality Report 9(8) Index A ADR, versus market share, 215–219 agent selling experience, on path to personalization, 243–244 Airbnb, 274 airline industry, yield management in, 20–22, 21f airline model, algorithm, 27 Amazon, 204 analytics backing up strategy with, 207 big data and, 74–76 innovations in executing, 56–58 marketing and, 136 revenue management and skills in, 256 Anderson, Calvin, 259, 274 anticipation, 275–276 apples to apples comparisons 115–116 Ashford Hospitality Trust, 259 AST (Automated Sales Tips), 244 attribute levels for business travelers, 102–105, 104f for leisure travelers, 96–97, 97f value assessments and, 96–98, 97f attributes, importance of for business travelers, 102–103 Automated Sales Tips (AST), 244 B BAR (best available rate), 45n2 Bartnick, Fabian, 149–150, 275–276, 281 base price by room type, 45n2 basics, remembering the, 278 best available rate (BA), 45n2 Bezos, Jeff, 204 bias, 75 bias-variance trade-off, 75 big analytics, big data and, 61–63 big data about, 48–50 analytics and, 74–76 big analytics and, 61–63 data visualization and, 63–67 innovations in executing analytics, 56–58 innovations in solution delivery, 58–61 resources on, 77 responsible use of, 67–76 role of in revenue management science, 78–82 storing unstructured data, 52–56 booking process, simplifying, 241 Boston Consulting Groups matrix, 208 brand, pricing and, 195–203 brand class, 201–203 British Airways, 239 business strategies, pricing to support, 203–205 business travelers assessing overall value, 105–108 attribute levels and value assessments, 103–105, 104f importance of attributes for, 102–103 loyalty and demographics, 101–109, 102f, 103f, 104f price and user-generated content for, 100–101, 101f buying behavior, 86–87 321 322  ▸   I n d e x C campaign management marketing optimization and, 132f, 133 revenue management and, 132, 132f Canina, Linda, 210, 211 career paths, in revenue management, 261–264 casino revenue management, 138 chief revenue officer (CRO), 262, 276–277 choice modeling, 96 Citadelle/Wisdom of the Sands (Exupéry), 279 citizen, 198–199, 211–212, 217 cloud-based solutions, 58–60 communication skills importance of, 272–273 revenue management and, 256 competitive price effects, 31–34 competitive pricing business rules for, 33f danger of business rule-driven, 33f confidence, having, 202 consilience, 79 consistency, importance of, 195–203 constraints, as element of optimization problems, 27 consumers, how they choose, 87–101 continuous price optimization, 29 control, as an advantage of onpremise solutions, 59 core product, hiding price of, 203 Cornett, Janelle, 248, 273 cost as an advantage of on-premise solutions, 60 of Hadoop, 54 Crenshaw, Craig, 216–217 CRO (chief revenue officer), 262, 276–277 cross-channel experience, evaluating, 240 cross-sell/up-sell, 136, 137 Cullen, Kathleen, 280–282 customer analytics marketing optimization and, 132f, 133 revenue management and, 132, 132f customer choice modeling, 237–238 customer segments, 276–277 customer value, incorporating into revenue management, 138–140 D data about, 50–51 evaluating, 71–74 importance of, 274–275 marketing and, 136 sources for, 69–71, 113–115 data mining, 77 data normalization, 232 data visualization, big data and, 63–67 data-mindedness, revenue management and, 257 de Jong, Lennert, 199, 211–212 Dean, Sloan, 259 decision variables, as element of optimization problems, 27 demand generation of, 273–275 price sensitivity of, 26t demographics about, 95–96, 95f of business travelers, 101–109, 102f, 103f, 104f value assessments, 95–96, 95f descriptive phase, 255, 255f Dietz, Alex, 67 digital data, tying to guests, 232 digital intelligence, 229–232 discipline, elevating, 273 discounts, compared with surcharges, 202 disruptors, importance of, 274–275 I n d e x   ◂  distribution channel management, 181–188 dual entitlement, principle of, 197–198 Duetto, 153 dynamic packages, creating, 137 dynamic pricing, 29 E ecommerce, revolution of, education importance of, 272, 278 revenue management and, 257–258 effective pricing, 10–11 Enz, Cathy, 210, 211 EpicMix, 244 establish phase, of technology implementation, 141, 141f evaluating data, 71–74 evangelizing, 278 Evolving Dynamics (HSMAI), 11 execution, 228–229 Expedia, 5, 19f Exupéry, Antoine de Saint Citadelle/Wisdom of the Sands, 279 F Facebook, statistics on usage of, 4–5 Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, 259 familiarity, 201–203 Fegan, Neal, 167–168, 177, 259 fences, 20 fixed capacity, 157 flexibility, of Hadoop, 55 focused, staying, 271 forecasting about, 41–45 analytically, 230 Forlie, Siv, 265–266 formal process, following a, 165–166 FRHI Hotels and Resorts, 177–178 function space revenue management performance metric, 161–164 future, planning your, 279 323 G genuineness, 229 global impacts, importance of, 274–275 goals, of total hotel revenue management (THRM), 172–175 grid computing, 57 guaranteed service levels, as advantage of cloud solutions, 59 guest journey, 225–229, 226f guest-centric revenue management, 169–172, 235–237 Gulrajani, Linda, 176–177, 271 H Hadoop platform, 54–55 Happel, Joerg, 38 Hendler, Rom, 262 High fixed costs, 157 Hilton Midtown, 259 Hilton Worldwide, 263 Hirko, Rhett, 271 hosted solutions, 59 hotels price and demand relationship in, 31f price optimization for, 29–36 HSMAI’s Certified Revenue Management Executive program, 11 hub-and-spoke model, 20 Hughes, Rich, 78–80 I IDeaS Reputation Influenced Pricing Module, 118, 153 IHG (Intercontinental Hotels Group), 39–40 images, 111 implementation speed, as advantage of cloud solutions, 59 in-database processing, 57 information, 201–203 in-memory processing, 57–58 324  ▸   I n d e x innovate phase, of technology implementation, 141f, 142 input data, typical to hotels, 48–49 integrate phase, of technology implementation, 141, 141f integrated data, for digital intelligence, 231–232 integrated marketing, revenue management and, 130–134, 132f intelligent demand management, 133, 133f Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), 39–40, 223 K Kayak, Kimes, Sherri, 158–159, 201–203, 256–259, 266–267 Kimpton Hotels, 263 L Las Vegas Sands, 142–143, 262 leg, 20 leisure travelers attribute levels and value assessments, 96–97, 97f demographics of, 95–96, 95f value perceptions of, 98–99 lifetime value calculations, 136 likelihood to respond, 136 linked rates, 35 lodging performance, 109–111, 210–211 Loews Hotels & Resorts, 118–119 Lomanno, Mark, 210–211 long-term, versus short-term, 211–212 Lotte.com, 243 low-hanging fruit, 166–167 low-variable costs, 157 loyalty, of business travelers, 101–109, 102f, 103f, 104f loyalty program, 241 M machine learning, 77 managed solutions, 59 market basket analysis, 136 market share, versus ADR, 215–219 marketing about, 128–130 achieving the vision, 140–142, 141f analytics and, 136 cautions about, 143–145 data and, 136 integrating revenue management with, 137–138 Las Vegas Sands, 142–143 revenue management and, 128–146 marketing optimization campaign management and, 132f, 133 customer analytics and, 132f, 133 marketplace, changing, 6–7 metadata, 79 Metasearch, microsegmentation, 136 MicroStrategy, 64 mobile presence, leveraging your, 240 money, price optimization and, 36–39 multicollinearity, 75–76, 77 multitenant nature, of SaaS solutions, 60 N Nair, Hari, 186–188 Nassetta, Chris, 223 negative reviews, power of, 94–99 negotiation skills, revenue management and, 257 network effect, 22 next best offer, 137 “Next Gen Traveler,” 223 Noone, Breffni, 88, 210 I n d e x   ◂  O objective, as element of optimization problems, 27 Occam’s razor, 74 Oliveira, Ivan, 41–45 online travel agents (OTAs), 7, 182 Onyx Hospitality Group, 121–123 operational constraints, aligning pricing with, 267–270 operations, involving, 167–168 opportunity, unknown guests as an, 227–228 optimal table mix analysis, 163–164 optimization, 27–28 See also price optimization optimize phase, of technology implementation, 141, 141f Orbitz, organizational structure, 280–282, 280f organizations, for revenue management, 264–277 OTAs (online travel agents), 7, 182 outcomes, monitoring, 166 overall value, assessing, 105–108 overbooking, overfitting, 75–76, 77 P parallel processing, 57 Payea, Brian, 111, 123–125 peers, staying connected to, 278 perceived quality, 89–90, 89f perceived value, 90–92, 90f, 92f performance drivers of, 165 establishing baselines of, 165 ratings and, 109 of websites, 240 performance metrics about, 159–164 function space revenue management, 161–164 restaurant revenue management, 160–161 325 personalization about, 222–224 advice for revenue managers, 246–247 digital intelligence, 229–231 getting started with, 239–242 guest-centric revenue management and, 235–237 integrated data for digital intelligence, 231–232 path to, 241–242, 242–245 profiling versus tracking behavior, 245–246 revenue management and, 233–239 of a vision, 224–229 Phillips, Robert Pricing and Revenue Optimization, 11–12 predicting, 230 predictive analysis, 230 predictive phase, 255, 255f prescriptive phase, 255, 255f price and demand relationship, in hotels, 31f price and pricing about, 86–87 aligning with operational constraints, 267–270 benefits of strategic pricing, 209–213 brand and, 195–203 as a consumer consideration, 87–101 impact on revenue management of, 93 leveraging revenue management in, 205–206 as a strategic tool, 191–215 strategy considerations for, 194–203 study on, 88–94, 100–101, 101f to support business strategies, 203–205 tips on being strategic in, 206–209 326  ▸   I n d e x price elasticity, calculating, 30–31 price endogeneity, 30–31 price fairness, 196–203 price optimization about, 18–19, 24–27 compared with revenue management, 36t defined, 29 for hotels, 29–36 money, 36–39 optimization, 27–28 yield management in airline industry, 20–22, 21f price sensitivity of demand, 26t variance in, 37 price transparency, 18 price-able demand, 25, 34–36 price-demand relationship, 37 Pricing and Revenue Optimization (Phillips), 11–12 profiling, versus tracking behavior, 245–246 profit optimization See total hotel revenue management (THRM) promotion demand, forecasting,137 proprietary data management, 232 prospect theory, 200–201 publicizing successes, 168–169 Q Qantas, 239 quality impact on revenue management of, 93 perceived, 90–92, 90f, 92f of reviews, 111 study on, 88–94 R Rainmaker, 153 rate fences, building logical, 202 rate spectrum, analyzing, 207–208 ratings as a consumer consideration, 87–101 performance and, 109 Red Roof Inns, 212–213 reduced burden on IT, as advantage of cloud solutions, 59 reference price, 199–200, 202–203 regulatory issues, as advantages of on-premise solutions, 59–60 relational database, 52, 54 reputation impact on revenue management of, 93–94 at Loews Hotels & Resorts, 118–119 revenue management systems and, 113–119 restaurant revenue management performance metric, 160–161 revenue leaders, 10, 270–277 revenue management about, 128–130 achieving the vision, 140–142, 141f in airline industry, 20–22, 21f campaign management and, 132, 132f career paths in, 261–264 cautions about, 143–145 challenges in, compared with price optimization, 36t customer analytics and, 132, 132f developing strategies for, 165 evolution of, 7–10 evolving scope of, 8f framework for new applications of, 156–169 framework of, 70f future of, 251–279 guest-centric, 169–172 impact on, 93–94 incorporating customer value into, 138–140 I n d e x   ◂  integrated marketing and, 130–134, 132f integrating with marketing, 137–138 Las Vegas Sands, 142–143 leveraging, 205–206 limitations to, 134–136 at Loews Hotels & Resorts, 118–119 marketing and, 128–146 organizations for, 264–277 personalization and, 233–239 perspectives of, 41–45, 280–282 perspectives on, 78–82, 120–125, 147–150, 215–219, 247–249 process of, 41–45, 42f, 43f reputation and systems of, 113–119 research on, 256–259 value of, 11 revenue managers advice for, 246–247 profiles of, 254–261 Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR), 159 Revenue Per Available Time-based Inventory Unit (RevPATI), 159 revenue strategy See total hotel revenue management (THRM) review sites, reviews as a consumer consideration, 87–101 number of, 110–111 power of, 93 quality of, 111 responses to, 109–110 RevPAR (Revenue Per Available Room), 159 RevPATI (Revenue Per Available Time-based Inventory Unit), 159 Roberts, Ann, 225–226 roles and responsibilities evolution of, 271 expanding, 275 327 S SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), 58, 60–61 sales, 147–150 Sanli, Tugrul, 80–81 SAS® Visual Analytics, 64 scalability, of Hadoop, 54 security, as advantage of cloud solutions, 59 segmentable markets, 157 selling strategies, building around system recommendations, 208–209 service experience, on path to personalization, 244–245 Shannon, Claude, 79 Sharma, Chinmi, 182–186 Sheraton Hotels, 263 short-term, versus long-term, 211–212 Silcock, Chris, 263 Silkunas, Leigh, 263 Singh, Tarandeep, 274–275 single line data collection insert, 231 “single version of the truth” database, 132–133, 132f social network analysis, 136 social web, evolution of, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), 58, 60–61 Solomons, Richard, 223 solution delivery, innovations in, 58–61 Sorenson, Arne, 223 sources, for data, 113–115 Southwest, 194–195 speed, of Hadoop, 55 standardization, of SaaS solutions, 60–61 strategic pricing, benefits of, 209–213 “Strategic RM and the Role of Competitive Price Shifting” study, 210 strategic tool, pricing as a, 191–215 328  ▸   I n d e x strategic usage, versus tactical usage, 116 structured data, 52, 53f successes, publicizing, 168–169 surcharges, compared with discounts, 202 system recommendations, building selling strategies around, 208– 209 T tableau, 64 tactical usage, versus strategic usage, 116 talent shortage, 11, 259–261 Talluri, Kalyan, 75 The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management, 11–12 technology big data and innovations in, 51 evaluating offerings in, 240 evolution of, importance of, 274–275 revenue management and skills in, 257 Telenor, 243 The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management (Talluri and van Rysin), 11–12 THRM See total hotel revenue management (THRM) time perishable inventory, 157 time-to-value, of SaaS solutions, 60 time-variable demand, 157 total guest value, incorporating in revenue management, 137 total hotel revenue management (THRM) about, 152–155 beyond rooms, 155–169 components of, 175–178 goals of, 172–175 guest-centric revenue management, 169–172 total revenue performance See total hotel revenue management (THRM) tracking behavior, versus profiling, 245–246 training, 229 transparency, importance of, 203 Travel Click, 69 trends, 23 TripAdvisor, 5, 123–125 TripAdvisor Rank, 77, 110, 120–125 Trivago, Tune Hotel Group, 149–150 U UGC See user-generated content (UGC) unknown guests, as an opportunity, 227–228 unqualified demand, 25 unqualified transient demand, 23 unstructured data, storing, 52–56 user interfaces, in SaaS solutions, 61 user-entered data, unreliable nature of, 72 user-generated content (UGC) about, 86–87 lodging performance and, 109–111 role of, 93 study on, 88–94, 100–101, 101f V Vail Resorts, 244 value as a consumer consideration, 88 perceived, 90–92, 90f, 92f of revenue management, 11 value assessments attribute levels and, 96–98, 97f for business travelers, 103–105, 104f for leisure travelers, 96–97, 97f value perceptions of leisure travelers, 98–99 study on, 88–94 I n d e x   ◂  van Rysin, Garrett, 75 The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management, 11–12 variance error, 75 variety, big data and, 50 velocity, big data and, 50 vendor partners, evaluating, 240 Verizon, 194 visions achieving, 140–142, 141f personalization of, 224–229 visualizations, 63–67, 65f, 232 volume, big data and, 50 W Walmart, 194 webpage interactions, on path to personalization, 243 websites, performance of, 240 Wendy’s, 194 “what-if-ing,” 44 “Why Discounting Doesn’t Work” study, 210–211 Wiersman, Timothy, 212–213 Wolf, Stefan, 121–123, 218, 277 workflows, in SaaS solutions, 61 X Xuereb, Monica, 118 Y Yeoh, Melinda, 275 yield management See revenue management yieldable demand, 34 “yielding,” 18 Young, Nicole, 216 329 WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT Go to www.wiley.com/go/eula to access Wiley’s ebook EULA ... 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