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Pricing tips, case examples and ideas for hotel owners, GMs and revenue managers.
2 November 2026
Hotel Revenue Management Software: What It Does and What to Check Before You Choose
Hotel revenue management software sets and updates room rates using your own booking data, your competitors' prices and the rules you decide. For a hotel in Bali, the question is…
2 November 2026
Hotel Rate Parity: Why Your Rates Drift Apart and How to Keep Them Aligned
Hotel rate parity means selling the same room, for the same dates and under the same conditions, at the same price on every channel. That includes your own website, online travel…
2 November 2026
Average Daily Rate for Hotels: The ADR Formula, How to Read It, and When It Misleads
The average daily rate hotel teams report every morning is one of the most quoted numbers in the industry, and one of the easiest to misread. Average daily rate (ADR) tells you…
26 October 2026
Rate Shopper for Hotels: How to Read Competitor Rates Without Chasing Them
A rate shopper is a tool that collects the public room rates of the hotels you compete with, date by date and channel by channel. For a hotel in Bali, a rate shopper answers a…
26 October 2026
A quiet Tuesday and a 30% discount: a short story
An illustrative story, built from a situation many Bali GMs will recognise. It is a Tuesday in late October. The GM of a 40-room hotel looks at the next two weeks: occupancy is…
23 October 2026
Two hotels, the same 70%, two different decisions
A short story, the kind we see often. Two hotels in the same area of Bali. Both have 70% on the books for a Saturday in late November. Hotel A's GM sees 70% and relaxes. "We're…
22 October 2026
Rebuild your compset from the guest's view
Your compset is probably the hotels on your street. Your guests may be comparing you with a completely different list. Here's a 30-minute check worth doing this week. Open a…
21 October 2026
Before you discount a slow date, check these 4 things
A slow date makes a discount feel like the obvious move. Often it isn't the first one to make. When pickup stalls for a date, check these first: 1. Restrictions. Is a minimum stay…
20 October 2026
Selling out early means undercharging
Selling out 60 days early doesn't mean you won. It usually means your rate was too low. Here's a 20-minute check you can do this week. Pull your on-the-books for the next 90 days.…
19 October 2026
Hotel Revenue Management: What It Covers and a Weekly Routine for Bali Hotels
Hotel revenue management means selling the right room to the right guest, at the right price, through the right channel, at the right time. Many hotels in Bali treat it as one…
19 October 2026
Rules first, automation second
A common worry from hotel owners about automated pricing: "What if the system drops my rate too low?" It is the right question. The answer is not to avoid automation. The answer…
16 October 2026
RevPAR for Hotels: Formula, Worked Examples and 6 Ways to Grow It
RevPAR, revenue per available room, is the number most hotel owners look at first. It combines how full you are and how much you charge into one figure, so it shows whether the…
16 October 2026
Channel Manager vs Revenue Management System: What Each Does and When a Hotel Needs Both
If you run a hotel in Indonesia, you have probably heard both terms in the same sales meeting: channel manager and revenue management system (RMS). They sound similar, they both…
16 October 2026
Hotel Dynamic Pricing: How It Works, With a Worked Example from Bali
Hotel dynamic pricing means changing your room rate as demand changes, instead of keeping one rate for a whole season. Airlines have done it for decades. For hotels it has become…
16 October 2026
Yield Management vs Revenue Management: What Is the Difference for Hotels?
Yield management and revenue management are often used as if they mean the same thing. They are closely related, but they are not identical. Knowing the difference helps you…
16 October 2026
We're hiring: Sales Executive (Facebook)
We're hiring a Sales Executive at Revbot 🚀 Revbot is a revenue management system built for hotels in Indonesia. It helps hotels set the right room rate every day, within the…
16 October 2026
We're hiring: Sales Executive
We're hiring a Sales Executive at Revbot 🚀 Revbot is a revenue management system built for hotels in Indonesia. It helps hotels set the right room rate every day, within the…
16 October 2026
Occupancy tells you where you are. Pickup tells you where you're going.
Most hotel meetings in Bali start with one number: occupancy on the books. "We're at 62% for the 20th." Good? Bad? On its own, nobody can say. The number that tells you what to do…
15 October 2026
Hotel Forecasting: How to Forecast Occupancy From Booking Pickup
A hotel forecast answers a simple question: how many rooms will we sell on each future date, and at what rate? A good forecast lets you set prices early, plan staffing and decide…
15 October 2026
Hotel Pricing Strategy: 7 Rules for Setting Room Rates That Hold Up
A hotel pricing strategy is the set of rules you use to decide what each room costs on each date. Without one, rates are set by habit, by panic when a date looks empty, or by…
15 October 2026
Booking Pace for Bali Hotels: How to Use Pickup to Decide When to Raise or Hold Rates
Ask most hotel teams how a future date looks and you will hear an occupancy figure. That figure tells you where you stand today. It does not tell you whether demand is speeding…
15 October 2026
Pricing Bali's Shoulder Season: A Practical Weekly Routine for October and November
The busy months are behind us and the year-end peak is still ahead. For many hotels in Bali, October and November are the hardest months to price. Demand is less predictable, some…
15 October 2026
Your December rates are being decided in October
Most Bali hotels start thinking about Christmas and New Year rates in late November. By then, a share of those nights is often already sold, at whatever rate was loaded months…
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