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Why You Should—And Can!—Benchmark Profitability: How Moving Beyond RevPAR Can Improve Your Bottom Line

Revenue per available room (RevPAR) unfailingly has been the go-to indicator hotel..

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Is a Profit-Driven Hotel Management Agreement Fairer? Hotel owners and operators jostle for the upper hand in contracts

A hotel is a single asset but often operates within a binary relationship between the property’s owner and its manager...

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Defining the right competitor set: similarity, competition and validity

Every benchmarking process is, essentially, a comparison. Thus, the ability to provide meaningful insights rests upon..

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Food & Beverage Department and Operating Metrics

Even though the Rooms Department is often considered at the center of hotel..

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Data Analysis Part 2 - Vertical Analysis

In Data Analysis Part 1, we covered why horizontal analysis is a critical tool for every manager. Not only does it help..

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Data Analysis – Part 1: Horizontal Analysis

As Peter Drucker once wrote, “what gets measured gets managed”. However, data by itself offers limited aid for the..

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Hotel Ratios, Metrics and KPIs

Ratios, metrics and KPIs, oh my! For anyone in a management level position, you hear these terms often and know your..

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Types of Benchmarking

There are many definitions of benchmarking, but in its very essence, it means using a structured framework to learn..

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Internal vs. External Benchmarking

When you think about benchmarking there are two fundamental types: internal and external benchmarking. As the names..

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