Seven trending hotel news stories that will impact your hotel Revenue Strategy.

Down Under, times are good for the travel trade. As hoteliers in Australia and New Zealand reap the benefits of increased tourism, they also would do well to revisit and refine their pricing strategies so they have more power to hold and yield rate in the future, experts say.

From the outside looking in, it appears hotels and the collective hospitality industry are doing just fine. We’re setting record occupancy numbers, learning more about our guests, and watching new hotels pop up left and right.

Once Holiday Inns began popping up along U.S. freeways, and through most of the last century, there wasn’t much slowing hotels down. Even when economics looked grim, it was assumed people would continue traveling and always need a place to stay.

Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Aug. 15, 2017 — Duetto, the hospitality industry’s leader in Revenue Strategy technology, and Meliá Hotels International have partnered to implement Duetto’s cloud-based solutions as part of the company’s ongoing digital transformation. Meliá, one of the largest hotel companies in the world with seven brands and more than 370 hotels across 43 countries, has undertaken several initiatives to elevate its Revenue Strategy and digital-marketing and distribution capabilities. Its adoption of Duetto’s price optimization application, GameChanger, and revenue intelligence application, ScoreBoard, confirms the two companies are aligned on a long-term vision for innovation.

Seven trending hotel news stories that will impact your hotel Revenue Strategy.