# Excel is quietly becoming a risk to your hotel portfolio revenue

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Published: 2026-08-06T14:47:22.234Z
Modified: 2026-08-06T14:47:22.234Z
Author: Joan Sanz
Topics: Revenue & Distribution
Summary: Revenue teams still leaning on spreadsheets are taking minutes to answer what an RMS could answer in seconds. Hospitality Net argues that's now a portfolio performance risk.

## Article

If your revenue strategy still runs on spreadsheets, you're not just slow. According to Hospitality Net, you're carrying a portfolio performance risk.

Excel-based workflows create costly decision delays across hotel portfolios. The argument is simple: when every rate decision needs to be manually assembled from scattered tabs, the team ends up reacting to the market instead of leading it. That lag is not a productivity quibble. It's a money problem.

An effective RMS, the article argues, should bring explainability, consolidation and a total cost of ownership that actually makes sense. My take: many hoteliers have been burned by RMS promises in the past, so they default to "the devil we know." But the devil now has a compounding interest problem. The fix isn't just better software, it's a mindset shift, one that treats pricing speed as a portfolio-level advantage.

For hoteliers, the opportunity is real: teams stop crunching, start deciding, and portfolios get the kind of real-time responsiveness that OTAs and direct channels reward.

## Sources

- Hospitality Net: https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4133849/outdated-revenue-tools-become-a-portfolio-performance-risk

## Citation

Excel is quietly becoming a risk to your hotel portfolio revenue. Hotel Tech News. 2026-08-06. https://hoteltech.news/digest/excel-revenue-management-risk