MANAGEMENT (2026)
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revenue management - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A set of multidisciplinary revenue
maximization strategies and tactics meant to improve the profitability of
certain businesses. In hotels, revenue management is used to examine
how many room nights are sold (occupancy), at what rate (discounting),
, what else is sold (sales mix), to whom (market segmentation), and through
what channel (distribution channel management). All these are examined
and managed with the objective of optimizing income under constantly
changing supply and demand conditions.
average daily rate (ADR) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Expresses the average room
rate realized from the sale of rooms in a given period; calculated by dividing
the room revenue by the number of room nights sold.
competitive (comp) set - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An identified group of hotels
considered to be a certain hotel's competitors.
contribution margin - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The amount of sales revenue left over
to contribute to covering fixed costs and, once fixed costs are paid, profit;
calculated by subtracting the variable cost by the room rate. Also known as
net room revenue.
contribution margin at any rate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A calculation that may
occur during periods of significant market pressure that considers any room
rate higher than the variable cost would generate a contribution margin,
and any contribution margin is better than none.