This Tech Firm Is the Using Pandemic Pause to Help Hotels Be Smarter About Setting Room Rates
More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more The coronavirus pandemic prompted many hotel companies to smarten up how they set their room rates — a practice called revenue management. Several hotels turned to software to help with this, and one company that benefited from the trend is IDeaS, the Minnesota-based unit of analytics firm SAS. A case in point is Scandic Hotels Group. Scandic CEO Jens Mathiesen last week told analysts that hotel groups have become better at setting room rates. “I’m old enough to ha...