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The industry is becoming increasingly “guest-led”, the future is
more curation than re-distribution
2000 Brand-led 2010 In Transition 2020 Guest-led
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experience
relationship management
management
reservations
management
management
source of customer assurance
- Brands define generic guest
experiences across estate
programmes, drive repeat purchase and loyalty
- Brand HOs de-skill on-property
inventory management, based
- n momentum algos
- Brands’ GDS connections
provide widest source of reach
management – creating excess capacity and low engagement
business management; to manage to chain-wide averages
- Guest advocacy (and/or taste
editors) provide principal source
- f assurance
- Seamless, anticipated and
personalised guest experiences – delivered on property
- Guests-own data, and initiate
relationship management
demand forecasting and integrated pricing on property
(and rooms) connect directly through low cost curation
- Multi-skill, flexible staffing –
matching demand and driving engagement
- Hotel business management
de-centralised to on-property teams using decision science
- Increasing use of advocacy
sites, brands fading from choice drivers
largely generic, and HO led
- Guests develop relationships
with brands and intermediaries
forecasting, using momentum algos plus sentiment-based
- Leading OTAs, and meta-sites
provide widest source of reach
remains largely unchanged – HoD-led and inflexible
remains largely unchanged
Today