Revenue & Distribution
Revenue management and distribution are two sides of the same coin: what you charge and which channel the guest arrives through.
Revenue management and distribution are two sides of the same coin: what you charge and which channel the guest arrives through.
Read → Bestprice moves to list on BME Growth and Accor ties sustainability to hotel performance. Two signals that capital and operations are converging ahead of WTM London.
Read → Roomiy Finance's CEO wants to push direct booking and hand more revenue back to hotel owners. It is the kind of bet independent hotels have been waiting for.
Read → Google merges Hotel Ads into an AI campaign, WTTC sets eight Europe priorities, and Mews asks where the hours AI saves in hotels actually go.
Read → Measured optimism at The Lodging Conference 2026, according to HVS: solid RevPAR for 2026, limited new supply, but owners now want revenue to actually turn into asset value.
Read → Duetto acquires FLYR Hospitality to merge AI pricing with natural-language business intelligence. The deal says a lot about where hotel revenue management is heading.
Read → OTAs and AI agents are personalizing upgrades, breakfast and late check-out before the hotel talks to its own guest. The margin moves upstream.
Read → Revolut has spent years teaching European users to book flights and stays inside its finance app. The next exam is American, and it is a hard one.
Read → Revenue consultant Jon Siberry explains on Hospitality Net when flash sales fill distressed inventory and when they cannibalize direct bookings and erode ADR.
Read → Booking.com's merchant payment model now lets the platform sell below the rate hotels load, and about one in five independent room nights is affected. The fix starts with a clear direct-booking strategy.
Read → Trip.com data places Spain second in Europe for Golden Week bookings, behind Italy. Barcelona and Madrid lead, but Malaga, Granada and Seville grow triple digits.
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