{"id":433,"date":"2009-05-19T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2020-01-21T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:03:39","slug":"pricing-and-distribution-day-of-the-german-hsma-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/pricing-and-distribution-day-of-the-german-hsma-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Pricing and Distribution Day of the German HSMA, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">RateTiger recently attended the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pricing and Distribution Day part of the German HSMA<\/span>, 4th May 2009. As the name suggests, the event focused on the various strategies related to hotel pricing and distribution in today\u2019s scenario. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>Though positioned as a B2B event, it turned out to be more of a knowledge-sharing session. Hoteliers unaware of technological advancements got to know about techniques and tools of managing rates and distribution online.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>The mainstay of the day was the continuing crisis and hoteliers\u2019 were keen to find out how to keep their room rates from falling further. In the midst of a fully-fledged price\u2013war, it has become important to keep prices above a minimum level in order to survive.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>Revenue Managers from hotels across Germany attended as keynote speakers in different workshops. Around 180 hotels were represented in the gathering, which made it a good forum for hotel technology providers to interact with the specific German hotel market.  <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>We spoke to Ulf Guldi, RateTiger Sales Manager for Germany, on his experience of the event. He says, \u201cIt\u2019s good to be there to meet concerned hoteliers and discuss distribution strategies and tools. These focused platforms provide the opportunity to have a direct discussion with the decision maker and show them relevant products. It is a good way of responding to direct concerns and presenting hoteliers with the USP and benefits of your products by matching it to their needs.\u201d<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RateTiger recently attended the Pricing and Distribution Day part of the German HSMA, 4th May 2009. As the name suggests, the event focused on the various strategies related to hotel pricing and distribution in today\u2019s scenario. Though positioned as a B2B event, it turned out to be more of a knowledge-sharing session. Hoteliers unaware of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/pricing-and-distribution-day-of-the-german-hsma-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pricing and Distribution Day of the German HSMA, 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,283],"tags":[1003],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotel-channel-connectivity","category-hotel-online-distribution","tag-hotel-pricing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}