Planning a vacation usually means you need to find a place to stay. And just like airline fares, hotel rates fluctuate based on timing and demand. Booking the first room you see generally won’t yield ...

If you’ve been shopping for hotel rooms recently, you may have noticed that prices are going down. What gives? Hotels, even in hot vacation destinations like the Caribbean, are struggling to fill beds ...

Amid a summer that was widely expected to be extremely busy, it should be no surprise that hotel room supply is not keeping pace with demand. The supply versus demand challenges are now amounting to ...

Photo Caption: A child-friendly room at the W Marriott Orlando Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa in Orlando, Florida. Source: Marriott International. Rising hotel room rates in the U.S. have stopped ...

Hotel pricing is moving from science to art. Hotel operators are finally getting serious about price and revenue management.

Q: I have always wondered why some hotel rooms have signs on the back of the door posting room rates. Why are those rates always two or three times as much as I am paying? In other hotels, I see the ...

While every company has unique needs for outsourcing, travel buyers may find some elements of corporate hotel programs--including rate auditing, benchmarking and commission recovery--are best meted ...

Corporate clients are traveling "smarter" by consolidating their hotel programs to shift market share to preferred suppliers, and negotiating more value-added amenities into their rates, according to ...