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With recent regulations and court cases limiting or outlawing rate parity agreements in parts of Europe, hotels everywhere are gaining more control over their pricing and distribution than ever before.
Even in the U.S., savvy hoteliers are rethinking their pricing strategies and looking for ways around rate parity.
But with those opportunities also come new challenges as third-party distribution partners still wield plenty of power. In this rapidly changing space, hoteliers must have the right strategies and tools in place to effectively price their inventory, drive direct bookings and maximize profits.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
What the recent rulings mean for hotels in Europe and around the world
The importance of pricing all channels independently and in real-time
How to use your loyalty program to drive more direct bookings with personalized pricing
Panelists for this FREE webinar are:
Michael McCartan, Duetto, Managing Director, EMEA
Etienne Faisandier, Mövenpick, VP Revenue Management & Business Intelligence
Ted Teng, The Leading Hotels of the World, CEO
Sean O’Neill, Tnooz, Editor-in Chief & Moderator
Kevin May, Tnooz, Senior Editor & Producer
This free webinar took place on Thursday, the 12th of November.
Hotel 2030 is a cross-sector platform that acts as a catalyst for open discussion on the possible changes facing the hospitality industry and associated innovations for hotels over the next 15 to 20 years.
As we explore potential changes, we see some trends having increasing impact. Based on discussion and feedback from hospitality companies, tourism experts and government bodies around the world, this summary shares insights on shifts by 2020.
The ten most significant trends that are seen as potentially impacting hotels in 2020 are:
African Travellers
500m new middle class in Africa require accessible hotel accommodation for both work and leisure across the continent
Co-Branded Experiences
Hotels partner with established consumer brands to deliver leading-edge, repeatable co-branded experiences
Dynamic Pricing
Transparent real-time pricing reflects personal ability to pay and enhances yield optimization across the service sector
Faith Compliance
More organizations flex their processes and proactively switch to become compliant with cultural norms and experiences
Female Centricity
New experiences are designed, and established ones reinvented, with the influential female population’s needs at the core
Final Frontiers
Increasing interest and participation in remote journeys drive more of us to seek to access the inaccessible
New Forms of Ownership
Shared co-operatives, partnerships and membership funding business models replace franchising and direct ownership
Smart Buildings
Increasingly intelligent, self-monitoring buildings set new standards as big data is shared between operations and providers
Upstream Insight
Companies and networks have, and act on, very early insight on future intent to travel and customise services to suit
Waste Reuse
Seeing waste as a resource and encouraging its reuse within the footprint shifts many towards the circular economy
Hotel 2030 is a cross-sector platform that acts as a catalyst for open discussion on the possible changes facing the hospitality industry and associated innovations for hotels over the next 15 to 20 years.
As we explore potential changes, we see some trends having increasing impact. Based on discussion and feedback from hospitality companies, tourism experts and government bodies around the world, this summary shares insights on shifts by 2020.
The ten most significant trends that are seen as potentially impacting hotels in 2020 are:
African Travellers
500m new middle class in Africa require accessible hotel accommodation for both work and leisure across the continent
Co-Branded Experiences
Hotels partner with established consumer brands to deliver leading-edge, repeatable co-branded experiences
Dynamic Pricing
Transparent real-time pricing reflects personal ability to pay and enhances yield optimization across the service sector
Faith Compliance
More organizations flex their processes and proactively switch to become compliant with cultural norms and experiences
Female Centricity
New experiences are designed, and established ones reinvented, with the influential female population’s needs at the core
Final Frontiers
Increasing interest and participation in remote journeys drive more of us to seek to access the inaccessible
New Forms of Ownership
Shared co-operatives, partnerships and membership funding business models replace franchising and direct ownership
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Increasingly intelligent, self-monitoring buildings set new standards as big data is shared between operations and providers
Upstream Insight
Companies and networks have, and act on, very early insight on future intent to travel and customise services to suit
Waste Reuse
Seeing waste as a resource and encouraging its reuse within the footprint shifts many towards the circular economy
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Inventory Control
Distribution Mix
Marketing Actions
Hotel pricing in a post-parity world - Duetto webinar slidestnooz
With recent regulations and court cases limiting or outlawing rate parity agreements in parts of Europe, hotels everywhere are gaining more control over their pricing and distribution than ever before.
Even in the U.S., savvy hoteliers are rethinking their pricing strategies and looking for ways around rate parity.
But with those opportunities also come new challenges as third-party distribution partners still wield plenty of power. In this rapidly changing space, hoteliers must have the right strategies and tools in place to effectively price their inventory, drive direct bookings and maximize profits.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
What the recent rulings mean for hotels in Europe and around the world
The importance of pricing all channels independently and in real-time
How to use your loyalty program to drive more direct bookings with personalized pricing
Panelists for this FREE webinar are:
Michael McCartan, Duetto, Managing Director, EMEA
Etienne Faisandier, Mövenpick, VP Revenue Management & Business Intelligence
Ted Teng, The Leading Hotels of the World, CEO
Sean O’Neill, Tnooz, Editor-in Chief & Moderator
Kevin May, Tnooz, Senior Editor & Producer
This free webinar took place on Thursday, the 12th of November.
Hotel 2030 is a cross-sector platform that acts as a catalyst for open discussion on the possible changes facing the hospitality industry and associated innovations for hotels over the next 15 to 20 years.
As we explore potential changes, we see some trends having increasing impact. Based on discussion and feedback from hospitality companies, tourism experts and government bodies around the world, this summary shares insights on shifts by 2020.
The ten most significant trends that are seen as potentially impacting hotels in 2020 are:
African Travellers
500m new middle class in Africa require accessible hotel accommodation for both work and leisure across the continent
Co-Branded Experiences
Hotels partner with established consumer brands to deliver leading-edge, repeatable co-branded experiences
Dynamic Pricing
Transparent real-time pricing reflects personal ability to pay and enhances yield optimization across the service sector
Faith Compliance
More organizations flex their processes and proactively switch to become compliant with cultural norms and experiences
Female Centricity
New experiences are designed, and established ones reinvented, with the influential female population’s needs at the core
Final Frontiers
Increasing interest and participation in remote journeys drive more of us to seek to access the inaccessible
New Forms of Ownership
Shared co-operatives, partnerships and membership funding business models replace franchising and direct ownership
Smart Buildings
Increasingly intelligent, self-monitoring buildings set new standards as big data is shared between operations and providers
Upstream Insight
Companies and networks have, and act on, very early insight on future intent to travel and customise services to suit
Waste Reuse
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Hotel 2030 is a cross-sector platform that acts as a catalyst for open discussion on the possible changes facing the hospitality industry and associated innovations for hotels over the next 15 to 20 years.
As we explore potential changes, we see some trends having increasing impact. Based on discussion and feedback from hospitality companies, tourism experts and government bodies around the world, this summary shares insights on shifts by 2020.
The ten most significant trends that are seen as potentially impacting hotels in 2020 are:
African Travellers
500m new middle class in Africa require accessible hotel accommodation for both work and leisure across the continent
Co-Branded Experiences
Hotels partner with established consumer brands to deliver leading-edge, repeatable co-branded experiences
Dynamic Pricing
Transparent real-time pricing reflects personal ability to pay and enhances yield optimization across the service sector
Faith Compliance
More organizations flex their processes and proactively switch to become compliant with cultural norms and experiences
Female Centricity
New experiences are designed, and established ones reinvented, with the influential female population’s needs at the core
Final Frontiers
Increasing interest and participation in remote journeys drive more of us to seek to access the inaccessible
New Forms of Ownership
Shared co-operatives, partnerships and membership funding business models replace franchising and direct ownership
Smart Buildings
Increasingly intelligent, self-monitoring buildings set new standards as big data is shared between operations and providers
Upstream Insight
Companies and networks have, and act on, very early insight on future intent to travel and customise services to suit
Waste Reuse
Seeing waste as a resource and encouraging its reuse within the footprint shifts many towards the circular economy
Sustainability: People, Prosperity and the EnvironmentI Meet Hotel
Bidroom organizes I Meet Hotel, a global conference connecting hoteliers to the future of hospitality. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, we have to take our conferences online.
I Meet Hotel conducted a survey with 1000s of hotels to design a webinar more suited for hoteliers. One of the subjects that were highlighted was sustainability;
In this session, we will cover what hotels can do in terms of being a sustainable business through its management of people, business models, and environmental standards.
This webinar will feature;
Michael Ros, Co-Founder and CEO @Bidroom
Cláudia Lisboa, Technical Coordinator @UNWTO
Christof Burgbacher, Founder, and Managing Director @Consulting-Elementerre
The webinar is being moderated by Simon Lehmann, former president of Phocuswright and CEO / Co-Founder
@AJL Consulting GmbH, who is a world-leading expert and opinion leader in the online travel industry.
Visit www.imeethotel.com/webinar for more information and future events
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The venerable institution of hospitality has been turning around over the past two decades. The combined impact of shifting demographics and new technologies are the primary catalysts for this metamorphosis. The Internet provides consumers an opportunity to think of the hotels as commodities. Hotels had been lowering prices to gain a competitive advantage from 2009 to 2013 but are now raising prices as quickly as possible, hoping that the music won't stop soon. The many changes occurring today are proof positive that this industry is no longer limited to being an "art." We have officially moved into the John Naisbitt coined "hi tech, hi touch" world. Led by revenue management but now including distribution channel management, social media marketing, Web 2.0 or 3.0, call it what you like and more, this industry has been transformed.
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More info available here: http://www.brandwatch.com/report-travel-2014/
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Company History
Founded in 1991 by Robert B. Diener and David S. Litman, Hotels.com was first known as Hotel Reservations Network until the domain name Hotels.com was purchased in 2002 for ~$11m and assigned as the company name. [1][2] In 1995 Hotels.com was one of the first companies to use the Internet to offer their services on a global network. In February of 2000, Hotels.com went public with great success and ranked in the top 1% of public companies until 2003. In 2003, as Hotels.com was valued at $5.5 billion, founders David Litman and Robert Deiner sold their portion of Hotels.com to InterActiveCorp. The founders then left of the company later in 2004.[1]
Legal Issues
In 2007, Lewkowicz and Judith Smith of Oakland filed a class-action lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court, claiming that Hotels.com did not guarantee wheelchair-accessible rooms. In 2009 the non-profit, DRA (Disability Rights Advocates), reached a settlement with the two major online travel service companies, Hotels.com and Expedia.com. Under the settlement both companies agreed to improve reservation services for travelers with disabilities by adding new features to their websites to improve accommodations for those with disabilities such as, wheelchair accessible showers, braille signage, and assistive telecommunications.[3] [4]
Market
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There are growing forces of newly entered companies in OTA market that have already become a threat to existing OTAs. Airbnb, founded in 2008, has rental listings of over two million spaces in 34,000 cities in 190 countries, serving 60 million customers to date. Airbnb differentiated its service from traditional OTAs by offering listings of privately owned apartment rooms and homes among other unique options. Airbnb has won popularity among younger generations by offering the experience of homestay accommodations with strict policy to protect guest and host participants. Though it is not publicly disclosed, Airbnb is estimated to of had an average revenue growth of 173% for a one year period between 2011 and .
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Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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