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What is a night audit and why is it important in the hotel industry?
What is a night audit in a hotel? A night audit is a critical process used in hotels to ensure financial accuracy, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and guest...
What is RevPAR and RevPAR index and how do you calculate these metrics?
What is RevPAR in hotels (revenue per available room)? Your RevPAR informs you about your most profitable periods and the most in-demand rooms. It...
What is a channel manager and why should hotels use one?
What is a channel manager for hotels? A hotel channel manager is a tool designed to help hotel owners effectively manage customer data, online...
How AI is already shaping hospitality
7 ways AI is shaping hospitality Guests are using AI today Open AI launched ChatGPT in November 2022. In March of the following year, Expedia and...
What is a hotel property management system and what are the benefits of a..
What is a PMS in a hotel? A PMS can manage hotel bookings and perform various admin duties. Its primary functions include payment processing,...
Benefits of office hoteling in the hospitality sector
What is office hoteling? Office hoteling is a flexible workplace strategy that liberates employees from fixed office locations. Instead, individuals...
Data sovereignty for hotels: safeguarding guest information in a digital world
What is data sovereignty? Data sovereignty in the hospitality industry pertains to data subject to laws and regulations based on the country in which...
Mews Coffee Corner: a fun space for hospitality insights
Brewing ideas and insights This isn't just another webinar or podcast series. Mews Coffee Corner is a space where ideas percolate, opinions are...
Guide to hotel pricing intelligence to increase revenue
What is hotel pricing intelligence? Hotel pricing intelligence involves analyzing, gathering, and using data to make informed pricing decisions...
All you need to know about hotel fees
What are hotel fees? Hotel fees encompass more than just additional charges for amenities, add-on services, taxes, resort fees, and incidental...
Discount pricing strategy in the hotel industry
What is discount pricing? Discount pricing is a strategy in which you offer your hotel rooms at a lower price to draw guests, boost demand, increase...
What is cost-based pricing in the hotel industry?
What is cost-based pricing? Cost-based pricing lets hoteliers set prices for rooms, services and amenities based on how much they cost their hotel,...
How new Mews funding will shape hospitality’s future
As the hospitality industry undergoes a significant period of transformation, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve raised an additional $110m of...
The importance of hotel cleaning protocols and their benefits
What are cleaning protocols for hotels? Cleaning protocols in hotels are the procedures and standards that ensure cleanliness, hygiene and guest...
2024 hospitality trends in the Nordics
What does the Nordic data say? The demand for travel in 2023 remained strong. Across the Nordics, average occupancy was 53%, up 4% on 2022. This is...
The power of hotel data in the hospitality industry
What is hotel data? Hotel data is essential information collected within the hospitality industry – guest bookings, preferences, revenue figures,...
The Mews Data Dive: assessing hospitality’s performance in 2023
What’s in the Mews Data Dive? There’s no unified set of must-track metrics for hoteliers – at least, not yet. Although our guide on New Era of...
The comprehensive guide to hotel rate shopping
What is hotel rate shopping? Rate shopping is popular among hoteliers who want to check competitors' room rates and benchmark them against their own...
8 main challenges when protecting hotel guest data in 2024
Why is protecting your hotel guest data so important? Hotel guest data has a range of uses, from optimizing service, personalization, forecasting and...
Essential hotel metrics for General Managers
The must-track areas for hotel metrics There’s a tendency to obsess over a few traditional hospitality metrics. We don’t want to name names, but...
The importance of hotel group business and how to manage them
Empowering Hospitality: Embracing a Data-Driven Future
Top 7 Hotel Innovation Trends for 2024
Hospitality Insights: 2023 recap and 2024 predictions, part two
Welcome to part two of Mews Hospitality Insights.We hope you enjoyed part one, wherethe star-studdedcast from Microsoft, Lamington Group, Generator /...
Hospitality Insights: 2023 recap and 2024 predictions, part one
Matt Welle, CEO, Mews What are Matt’s learnings from 2023?
Emerging glamping trends for 2024
6 hotel renovation ideas to consider when renewing your property
Mind the Product London 2023: insights and lessons learned
The Mind the Product community will always hold a special place in my Product Manager (PM) career. As a PM in Croatia working for a Croatian company...
Hotelier personas: how top performers adapt to change
The true cost of refusing to change Modern hoteliers know that the road to sustained profitability is not about sticking to a strategy or a business...
The importance of organizational culture in hospitality
What is organizational culture and why is it important in hotels? Culture stems from shared values, behaviors, ideas and customs. When people work...
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