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Understanding Your Guest Profitability

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Big Data’s Role in Mitigating the Hotel Industry’s Top Three Risks The first and biggest risk is opportunity cost, or leaving money on the table by not accurately pricing inventory – and that can be in either direction. Another risk is conflating channel complexity with pricing complexity.

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What Will Become of the Cruise Ship Smorgasbord?

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But cruise companies come into the ring more prepared than many industries. “A A lot of this is things we do every day,” says Wes Cort, the vice president of food and beverage operations for Norwegian Cruise Lines. “We Few people who watched a Japanese video simulating viral spread at a cruise ship buffet would do the same.

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All Alone on a Cruise to Nowhere

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But four days before I was due to embark, I had a conversation that gave me the impression I might be about to board a sinking ship: The parent company of the cruise line I’d booked, Genting Hong Kong, had just gone through a $3.5 Maybe I would see the stars for the first time in years. billion USD debt restructuring.

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