🎙️ How Can Hotels Increase Their Conversion Rates by up to 20-30%? In the latest podcast episode, Veit speaks with Georg Hendrix from The Hotels Network (THN) about the future of direct bookings. From intelligent personalization to benchmarks with BenchDirect – we explore how hoteliers can reduce their reliance on OTAs and boost their conversion […]
In this episode of berner+becker office hours, everything revolves around the topic of hotel distribution. Together with Laura Schlosser, Head of Distribution at Berner+Becker, Veit discusses best practices, insights, and news in the field of distribution. Of course, we’re only scratching the surface in a good 18 minutes, but the conversation is packed with takeaways […]
An exciting episode all about the stuub Apartments from the Black Forest! Veit welcomes Nils Deville from stuub Apartments. They discuss the innovation of tradition, meaning stuub’s approach to modernizing classic accommodations, focusing on sustainability, and embracing digitalization. Nils and Veit also talk about the market conditions in the Black Forest, the strategies and their […]
Our conversation is looking at the various strengths and weaknesses of a Revenue Manager and the strengths and weaknesses of a Revenue Management System (RMS). A very timely and interesting topic! We often hear the discussion around technology replacing the human but, is there actually a choice to be made between having a revenue manager […]
In this discussion, we focus on the German hotel market. Pontus and Trevor from Revenue Hub review Summer months ahead, touching on some early possible challenges for the leisure markets as domestic customers look to travel abroad, whether this will bring some pricing pressures and offers for final thoughts for hoteliers to start moving away […]
In this new discussion, Veit and Trevor from Revenue Hub talk about how global economic factors and the current war in Ukraine might influence different traveler attitudes. With inflation already prevalent across many countries, they explore how that could affect not only hotels ADR but also consumer spending power – and they reflect on how […]
In this discussion, we focus on the German hotel market. Pontus and Trevor from Revenue Hub review how the different hotel sectors have faired this Summer, what might happen as we head into the Autumn and Winter, and finally, we hear what has been happening at berner+becker over the last few months as we come […]
Continuing the theme of back to basics together with Trevor from RevenueHub, we follow up our last discussion around forecasting, this time we focus on segmentation. We consider what are some errors hoteliers make, or challenges they face, when considering segmentation. Our Veit highlights additional areas to consider when building more granular segmentation and ways […]
In this discussion with Trevor from Revenue Hub, our own Veit takes us back to basics and looks at the fundamental task of Hotel forecasting. We look at what impact the pandemic, technology adoption and staffing issues has had on why we forecast, what we forecast and how often we review it. Finally, we consider […]
Our Veit Meier and Till Benthien talks with Trevor Grant form Revenue Hub. In this discussion we reflect back on our conversation in April to see how the German Hotel Market has changed in the last 3 months. We cover a number of topics, touching on different German regions, inbound travel, groups and events business, […]