When booking history and intuition aren’t enough, our tools can help you fine-tune a revenue strategy that adapts to changes in traveler demand. Our tools provide the data you need to confidently adjust your rates to capture travelers’ attention, fill rooms, and maintain an average daily rate (ADR) that reflects the quality of your property.
Tools to optimize revenue performance
Market knowledge
Use real-time market data, analysis, and pricing insights to focus your time on decision making, not research.
Competitive insight
Leverage your data and ours to create a custom competitive set to react quickly to market conditions.
Property performance
Accurately measure your impact by evaluating your performance data against the previous year and your competition.
Revenue management
As travel recovers, it’s more important than ever to use real-time market data to make pricing decisions. Our tools make it easy to view competitive data to guide informed decisions. Rev+, our free revenue management tool, is simple to use and quickly provides the knowledge you need.
- Understand current market pricing without gathering data by hand
- Be alerted to market fluctuations and respond quickly
- Review daily occupancy forecasts and revenue opportunity guidance
- Track and anticipate changes in demand and identify opportunities to increase reservations with Market Recovery Insights
Insights from Rev+ help you confidently establish pricing strategies and insightfully adjust your rates.
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Worldwide, more than 100,000 partners use Rev+.
Expedia Group, 2019
Competitors in your market
Comparing your performance against competitors provides valuable insight. But identifying and monitoring the right set of properties can be a challenge. That’s where we can help.
Your Competitive Set:
- Consists of 5-19 properties you compete with for guests
- Adjusts easily, so the list is always relevant
- Informs marketplace comparisons and performance recommendations
We’ll populate your Competitive Set with a list of properties similar to yours, and you can modify and adjust. In no time you’ll have competitive benchmarks for key metrics at your fingertips.
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74% of marketing professionals affirmed a competitive analysis to be “important or very important.”
Conductor, 2019
Rooms, rates, and availability
Having better data isn’t helpful if it’s too difficult or time consuming to change your rates or availability. Our tools are user friendly and designed to make it easy to adjust your pricing strategies as needed.
- Add a new rate plan or adjust rates to support business recovery
- Offer a new room type in the Expedia Group marketplace
- Manage inventory to maximize occupancy or minimize the risk of relocations
- Keep policies and restrictions current
Spend less time implementing new room rate strategies and managing availability — and more time with your guests.
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Our Rooms and rates pages show 67% of travelers are looking at booking windows 200+ days in the future.
Covid-19 Traveler Research.
Property analytics
Demand may look different as travel picks up. While some properties may see reservations right away, others may take longer. We’ll help you understand your performance and identify opportunities to improve.
Reports include:
- At-a-glance understanding of your visibility ranking, conversion rate, and guest value
- Net revenue and revenue share of competitors in your market
- Consolidated year-over-year data and performance trends
Robust analytics help you confidently seize opportunities and continually improve business performance.
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1 in 3 Expedia Group lodging partners look at some form of analytics reporting on a daily basis.
Expedia Group, 2017
FAQs
Rev+ is a free tool (no subscription required) featuring a real-time data flow that provides a current view of occupancy, compression, and competitive pricing. Unlike other reports that have some lag, Rev+ reveals the market conditions for that day, week, month and year ahead.
Find out more about the opportunities available to you with Rev+ in Partner Central.
You can make updates to your comp set every 15 days to keep pace with changes in your market.
Steps for customizing your competitive set are available here.
Learn how to avoid guest relocations in Partner Central. To eliminate same-day arrivals, consider setting a booking cutoff restriction to specify how many days in advance a guest must book before check-in. Read more on how to do this here. Always remember to close room types that are not available for booking and update your properties status to indicate unexpected closures.
We can help you save time in so many ways. For example, you can bulk upload room inventory and availability to quickly make updates across multiple room types. Read our step-by-step instructions to learn more. You could also consider getting connected to automatically update your property’s rates and availability across all of the travel sites you work with. Read more on how to do this here.
Our easy-to-use platform, Partner Central, will be the primary location for managing reservations, loading inventory, changing rates, and keeping your listing up to date. Many partners opt to use a connectivity provider to link our systems and automatically perform daily tasks. They log in to Partner Central to leverage our more advanced tools including competitive set analysis, real-time market pricing, and other marketing programs. If you have any problems, our local teams are ready to help.
Yes. Expedia Group partners have access to a suite of tools and data insights that help you develop and execute a profitable revenue management strategy. We're constantly innovating and publishing best-practice guidance to support your success.
An online travel agency (OTA) is a key part of your distribution strategy. If your goal is to reach more travelers and attract those who will be happiest at your property, an OTA can help.
At Expedia Group the breadth of our travel supply attracts travelers who are researching, planning, and booking travel. They often plan far in advance, stay longer at your property, and spend more. In addition to helping you fill your rooms, we provide tools and market insights to help you provide outstanding guest experiences and grow your business.
We're one of the world’s leading travel marketplaces, with an extensive brand portfolio that includes both globally recognized and locally relevant travel brands, including Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, and more. Learn more in our About Us section.
No. To keep your workload to a minimum, we automatically email the guest to confirm the reservation.
You can easily cancel a reservation on behalf of a guest in Partner Central. If a cancellation fee applies, you can charge the linked Expedia Virtual Card on the cancellation date.
Yes. The Messages tool in Partner Central allows communication with guests before they arrive and we're happy to include check-in instructions with your property listing.
As an Expedia Group partner, you choose how you want to accept guest payments. Options include leveraging our secure payment processing to have travelers pay online when they book and charging an Expedia Group issued virtual credit card for payment at checkout. You can also have guests pay you directly at check-out and compensate Expedia Group.
To appeal to the broadest number of travelers, you can choose to offer both options and let the guests decide what's best for them.
It isn't a problem if your property doesn't accept credit cards. We'll make sure your listing communicates how you accept payment (cash, check, credit card, etc.) so travelers are prepared when they arrive. We'll confirm with you in a call to welcome you to the Expedia Group family.
In addition to providing an easy-to-use and secure experience for travelers to book your rooms, Expedia Group invests heavily in advertising, digital marketing, and social media promotion to attract consumers from around the world to your market and individual property.
We're constantly mining our data for insights and emerging travel trends so we can both innovate and develop the best set of free and robust tools that enable you to grow your business. We also operate traveler and partner support centers to help solve the sticky logistical issues that inevitably arise when people set out to explore the world.
