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What AI is telling travelers about your hotel tonight. And you have no idea
By Tony Loeb, cofounder of 10 minutes hotels Fifteen years ago, hoteliers didn’t see OTAs coming. Not because they were naive, but because the shift was gradual. By the time the warning signs were obvious, a big chunk of control was already gone. Something similar is unfolding right now. But this time, it’s not about distribution. It’s about how your hotel is described, understood and recommended by artificial intelligence. To dig into this, I recently sat down on the 10 minutes hotels podcast with Nicki Graham, Chief Marketing Officer at Cendyn, and Apollos Gause, the company’s Senior…
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Refinery Hotel Redefines Revenue Management
🏨 Located in Midtown Manhattan, Refinery Hotel, a luxury lifestyle boutique hotel with 197 keys, implemented LodgIQ's revenue management system, enabling Commercial Director Michelle Sharma to transition to a strategic role. The tech-forward hotel is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, known for spacious rooms and a mix of corporate and leisure guests. LodgIQ's automated rate decisions and smart pricing recommendations have led to double-digit growth in RevPAR, $500 premium room deltas, over 40% direct booking contribution, high Net ADR from OTAs with minimal…
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Why Generative AI Is Finally Changing Revenue Management
For more than a decade, the hotel industry has been doing what it does best when faced with complexity. It added more tools, more dashboards, more data sources. Pickup reports. Pace reports. Competitive sets. Market demand signals. Forecasts layered on forecasts. The promise was clarity. The reality, for many revenue teams, has been the opposite. Data is not the problem. Too much data, without help understanding where to look and why, is. That tension sits at the heart of our latest podcast episode and it also marks an important milestone for us. This episode is the first English…
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