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About the Course

With a fixed capacity, a highly disposable product and high fixed costs, hotels are a natural candidate for the application of revenue management. Originally developed by the airlines in the 1970s, these analytics-based techniques help predict consumer behavior at the hotel’s market level so that the hotel can sell each room each night at the optimum price. With modern-day rising acquisition costs and distribution complexities, revenue management techniques have increasingly been adopted by both small and large hotel companies, making a comprehensive understanding of segmentation, forecasting and pricing an essential requirement for today’s hospitality professionals. The purpose of this course is to provide a core understanding of the fundamentals of revenue management, which ties into the larger picture of revenue strategy. The course is structured to provide an insightful look into Revenue Management. Created in conjunction with Duetto, this course is hosted by a group of revenue management leaders in both theory and with hands-on experience at properties around the world. Upon completion of the course students should be empowered with industry best practices, which can be applied across the vast diversification the hotel industry to empower those to optimize profits. Duetto delivers powerful revenue strategy solutions to the world’s leading hotels and casinos, combining unparalleled expertise with world-class cloud-based technology. Acknowledgement: Bela Nagy, Agnes Roquefort , Jonathon Liu, Frederic Toitot, Pierrick La Masne, Markus Keller - ACCOR Simone Truscello - ACE HOTELS. Richard Valtr - MEWS SYSTEM. Jean-Luc Chrétien - FAST BOOKING. Jeannette Ho - FAIRMONT RAFFLES HOTELS & RESORTS. Chinmai Sharma - TAJ HOTEL & RESORTS. Cindy Estis Green - KALIBRI LABS. Jason Thielbar - RED LION. Christopher Cooper - ROCCO FORTE. Rom Hendler - SANDS. Rafi Rejerano - AB Hotels. Riko Van Santen - KEMPINKI HOTELS & RESORTS. Vinod Sukhija - BANYAN TREE HOTELS & RESORTS. Olivier Flement - WALT DISNEY COMPANY. Cidalia Pinto Coehlo - LOUVRE HOTELS. Trevor Stuart-Hill - REVENUE MATTERS. Vincent Cusma, Marco Benvenuti, Eric Stoessel, Gayle Ehrean, Nevin Reed - DUETTO. Claire Bertrand, Vincent Chatain, Jessica Moses, Benjamin Six (ESSEC Business School), Emilie Dupré (IMAGE-IN), Gregory Halidy (TRIPLAY)...

Top reviews

YZ

Jul 31, 2017

very useful and rich with it content , the complimentary reading is awesome and indeed needed

the final exam is a bit hard , i do recommend it for people who are seeking knowledge in RM

TD

Apr 30, 2022

I have been working in the hospitality industry for around 3 years. I found a lot of useful knowledge in the course. It is practical and informative. Highly recommend the course.

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By Phoenix E

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Jan 7, 2023

Mr. Nathanial green and Mr. Augustin Cacot I'm sure they are great at what they do yet cant teach or explain anything, the whole course was based on points and orders (that's it ) no explanation for why you take this decision, or why you take this step instead of them, or how you made it this way and not this way hope you could adjust it dialog to make sense of it, it's about making decisions so we need to know why, how, and what in everything possible

thank you so much for your time and efforts

By Jerome Y

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Sep 20, 2017

Good course, well explained. Would love to be able to play with some revenue management platform such as Duetto.

It would be great though if some of the link to resources on the Duetto website were updated. There's a lot of dead link there... Or a general update of the additional content. Professor Peter O'connor is still very active in the industry and recently took part in the Hotel Yearbook 2017 and it would have been nice to see it listed here.

But, to wrap it up, a great course

By Constantinos D

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Feb 21, 2016

A very interesting course outlining the important of good revenue management and flexible pricing to maximize hotel revenue and profits. I would welcome a few more practical exercises DURING the course and not only on the final quiz. Also, it would be good to have the tables and presentations on .pdf or . jpg format as details are not readable behind the presenter. Looking forward to the next course in this specialization, namely Demand Management.

By catia s

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Oct 22, 2022

As informaçoes sao de 2015, esperava algo mais atualizado. Com relaçao as minhas expectativas, o curso foi bom, mas nao me ensinou como fazer a segmentaçao, forecasting, pricing nem como fazer o revenue management.

Na minha opiniao foi muito mais um apanhado geral dizendo da importancia de segmentar, prever, precificar e analisar, o que todos nos ja sabemos, ao inves de mostar como fazer.

De qualquer forma agradeço pela oportunidade.

By Daniel P

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Mar 11, 2019

Good content ! Besides it is guided by a known revenue company partner and experts.

Only 4 starts as the evaluation of the concepts seems more like a memory and find the tricky question than a practice or a sum up of highlights of the MOOC.

And also there is space to improve narrative and additional support and videos

By KA

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Apr 3, 2020

At first, I would like to thank you the specialists and the organizers of this course . The majority of concepts were clearly explained. I found this course rather interesting and informative. Nevertheless, it would be better to have up to date information: the majority of Reading Materials were no more available.

By Nikolai P

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Nov 17, 2021

Good outline of the fundamentals of revenue management. The course is however taught by an employee of a revenue management software vendor, not a business school professor (and therefore may be biased). Also, the quizzes are extremely poorly written (poorly worded, ambiguous, sometimes completely non-sensical).

By Sagar b

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Sep 1, 2018

The course is a good start into revenue management. However, it does not provide "REAL" clarity on how revenue management really works in a hotel. How does a software such as Duetto fit into the hotel's scheme of things? Some more real world problem solving will helllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

By Aina H

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Nov 30, 2019

Very instructive, interesting inside view of the hotel revenue management.

too bad most links in the "readings" sections were out of date :(

I would also suggest step-by-step explanations when giving numerical or table examples to make them easier to understand.

By Karakis G

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Nov 30, 2020

All-in-all very good introductory course. Some issues with broken links and unavailable videos. Additionally, subtitles have minor issues. I definitelyrecommend it to any anyone who wants to ease themselves in RM and get a good grasp of the fundamentals!

By Khaled K

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Nov 27, 2019

The Course is good specially that it is up to date with the new market trends for revenue management tools & techniques, however the parts where it says "comp readings & videos" are not working as there is an annoying bee always appears on the surface :)

By Ramya M

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Oct 10, 2017

Overall course content is nice, but it is very theoretical. There is no way one person learns how to do the Yield up, down or maintain in the final exam by studying this course material - Unless they have some real world hotelier experience.

By Rene S

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Jan 29, 2020

Very good course. The presenters covered the topics well, very useful for anyone wishing to get a general overview of revenue management in a short time. The only negative was the broken links to many of the topics to do further reading.

By Juan C A D S

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Jan 16, 2021

Translations can be improved and so can the way things are explained. These are unclear explanations.

As an introduction to the subject it is fine, but the data is a bit outdated and many of the links on further reading no longer work.

By Georgios K

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Dec 10, 2020

A bit difficult to follow some english due to accwnt of a speaker. Additionally, a few broken links and unaccessible videos regarding the reading material. Other than this, a very good introductory course, which helped me learn a lot!

By Rohan D J

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Dec 2, 2016

I really found the course quite insightful, and was surprised with the amount of factors and variables that are taken into account when developing revenue strategy. I would have liked to see some mathematical aspect to this course.

By Okoboh

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May 1, 2020

I was able to understand and apply the philosophies and strategies to my position as the front office manager and also this course gave me a clearer understanding of the link between revenue management and operational team.

By Abd E

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Aug 25, 2018

It was a good introduction to the terminology, ideas, philosophies and difficulties of revenue management.

I would like to see how this would differ further based on size of hotel and property type compared to large hotels

By Olga K

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Feb 22, 2016

Great course, lots of interesting material!

However, I wish this course was not so fast-paced. If more time was dedicated to every subject and more examples were provided, that would make a learning process more effective.

By Dorah M

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Mar 31, 2020

I truly appreciated every detail on this particular course. I feel I needed more time to read everything provided. I was unable to open some links for Duetto. I am however glad that I can still go back to read them.

By Francesco C

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Sep 17, 2018

The course was really good an interesting. The links provided for the extra learning and deep understanding were not working. Also, I would suggest to explain a bit better the graphs shown during the course.

By Daniel H

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Feb 11, 2019

A great course with very interesting insights on Revenue Management strategies. A lot of the external and extra reading links are broken which is a shame, however, the course content itself is very good!

By Andrej S

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Nov 20, 2016

Solid course, but needs a little bit of a more practical application of the theory presented. All in all fine upgrade for people that up to now haven't had the awareness of revenue management importance.

By Javier N

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Apr 27, 2021

Good course. To be honest, I didn't like the final exam. I think the exercises are too simplified and have a lot of assumptions, specially for the elasticity of demand of some customer segments

By Andreas O

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Mar 6, 2021

Very informative for beginners. The course might need an update since there have been developments in the in the industry. Furthermore, some of the readings and videos were not accessible.