COMMERCIAL TRAINING WORKSHOPS
IN-PERSON

ABOUT HSMAI WORKSHOPS

Our unique programs are put together by the team of Hospitality Leaders which form HSMAI’s Revenue & Marketing Advisory Boards. We listened, now we are delivering!

These fast paced workshops are great opportunity for anyone who is looking to learn more about managing revenue, digital marketing and sales in a hotel or any accommodation business.

If you’re looking for a formal Certificate from a 96-year old global hotel association, the HSMAI Certificate in Revenue Management (Hospitality). delivers that at a fraction of the price of the only other globally recognised program (Cornell).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The course is for people who would like to move into a Revenue Management role, specifically:

  • People with less than 3 years experience in a revenue role
  • People who manage Revenue staff member or team
  • People who sell or develop revenue management or distribution tools for hotels

If you’re looking for a formal Certificate from a 96-year old global hotel association, the HSMAI Certificate in Revenue Management (Hospitality). delivers that at a fraction of the price of the only other globally recognised program (Cornell).

REVENUE

DIGITAL

SALES

CALENDAR OF HOTEL WORKSHOPS

2023 to 2024 Calendar of Workshops coming soon!

WORKSHOP AGENDAS

HOTEL REVENUE

TOPICS COVERED

  • The Essential Components of Revenue Management
  • Understanding your guests pathway to booking
  • Market Segmentation
  • Understanding the Hospitality Industry
  • Distribution
  • Rooms Forecasting
  • Revenue Strategy
  • Hotel Rooms Pricing
  • Understanding Business Intelligence for Hotels
  • Roles, Structure and Revenue Meetings
  • Understanding the Hospitality Industry
  • Distribution
  • Rooms Forecasting

HOTEL DIGITAL & REVENUE

TOPICS COVERED

  • Understanding your Guests Path to Booking
  • Revenue Management Superpowers
  • Understanding the Accommodation Market
  • Market Segmentation
  • Forecasting
  • Distribution
  • Social Media
  • Merchandising your Rooms
  • Activity
  • Setting Your Rates Strategy
  • Active Revenue Management
  • Your Website
  • Digital Marketing
  • Assessing your Competitors
  • Marketing Metrics
  • Behind the website
  • Individual help with your plans

HOTEL REVENUE

TOPICS COVERED

  • The Essential Components of Revenue Management
  • Understanding your guests pathway to booking
  • Market Segmentation
  • Understanding the Hospitality Industry
  • Distribution
  • Rooms Forecasting
  • Revenue Strategy
  • Hotel Rooms Pricing
  • Understanding Business Intelligence for Hotels
  • Roles, Structure and Revenue Meetings
  • Understanding the Hospitality Industry
  • Distribution
  • Rooms Forecasting

HOTEL DIGITAL & REVENUE

TOPICS COVERED

  • Understanding your Guests Path to Booking
  • Revenue Management Superpowers
  • Understanding the Accommodation Market
  • Market Segmentation
  • Forecasting
  • Distribution
  • Social Media
  • Merchandising your Rooms
  • Activity
  • Setting Your Rates Strategy
  • Active Revenue Management
  • Your Website
  • Digital Marketing
  • Assessing your Competitors
  • Marketing Metrics
  • Behind the website
  • Individual help with your plans

HOTEL SALES

TOPICS COVERED

Acquire, Develop and Retain

  1. The Evolution of Hotel Sales
  2. How your guests decide where to stay
  3. Understanding today’s buyer
  4. Fundamentals of selling
  5. Mastering the Sales call
  6. Developing your Commercial acumen
  7. Communication & Personal skills
  8. Selling your Meetings & Events Space

TOPICS COVERED - DAY 1

The Essential Components of Revenue Management

The fundamental components of Revenue Management are applied to any business that has fixed capacity, perishable inventory, and time-variable demand. This course introduces you to the elements of revenue management that you need to be familiar with to understand the role of revenue in the accommodation industry.  It’s not just about pricing.  The discipline involves many skills and this initial course will introduce you to each one.

You will learn
  • The main elements of the function of Revenue Management
  • Understand Revenue Management Terms and definitions
  • To identify a revenue management career path
Understanding your guests pathway to booking
You will learn:
  • How customers shop for accommodation
  • Learn what drives customers search and selection process
  • Learn what influences their choices during their search (including travel agents)’
  • The customer journey, from dreaming about a holiday, to shopping, booking, and experiencing the holiday or trip
  • Travel inspiration how do we find the inspiration to travel, and where to travel to?
Market Segmentation
You will learn:
  • What segmentation is
  • Why hotels segment their markets
  • How to define each segment e.g. Corporate, Events, Wholesale, Retail etc
  • Is a channel the same as a segment?
  • How to use this segmentation to gain insights and improve bottom line results
  • Understand different consumer behaviours in difference channel
  • Understand the different terms and strategies around using Segments vs Channels vs personalised offer
Understanding the Hospitality Industry
You will learn:
  • What are the fundamental principles of Economics and their role in Hotel Revenue Management?
  • How do Revenue Directors monitor and measure their competitor marketplace?
  • How do Hotel Managers identify true competitor properties?
  • How do you read competitor reports and use other data to derive strategic insights, and use the data to make better decisions?
Distribution

You Will Learn:

  • The definition of Distribution within the Accommodation sector
  • The definition of accommodation Inventory and how it is managed
  • The types of distribution channels
  • The factors of the Cost of Sale
  • The steps to implementing a successful Distribution Strategy
  • The important role of technology in a Distribution Strategy
  • The definition of Rate Parity and its role in Distribution
Rooms Forecasting
  • The Essential Components of Revenue Management
  • Understanding your guests pathway to booking
  • Market Segmentation
  • Understanding the Hospitality Industry
  • Distribution
  • Rooms Forecasting
You will Learn:
  • What are the different types of forecasts?
  • What are the objectives for each of the types of forecasts?
  • What information do I need to put a forecast together?
  • How do I find this information?
  • What questions should I ask when putting together a forecast?
  • How often should I be adjusting the forecasts?
  • What are the steps that I need to follow to put the forecast together?
  • What is the difference between unconstrained and constrained demand?
  • What are the elements of an accurate forecast?

TOPICS COVERED - DAY 2

Revenue Strategy

You will learn:  

  • To understand the components of a good revenue strategy;
  • Different revenue strategies explained;
  • Pricing Strategy;
  • Exercises in how to use the Revenue Strategy to manage day-to-day tactics;
  • Inventory Control- how inventory can impact on sales. If forecasting constraint, monitor to ensure controls do not have too big an impact and adjusting strategy where necessary and why revenue managers might withhold inventory.
Hotel Rooms Pricing
You will learn:
  • How to price your different room types
  • Different types of pricing explained – what and why:
    • BAR, Rack, Group, Corporate, Tactical vs Strategic pricing, Mobile only pricing – why?, Wholesalers, Static vs Dynamic rates, Corporate & Event, Opaque Pricing, Length of Stay Pricing, Loyalty clubs and Closed User Group rates
  • Packages/ promotions/ Discounting – Discounting –what additional volume required if I discount my price? Is a lower price generating new demand?
  • Understanding the impact on discounting -How to calculate Occupancy needed to offset discounts
  • Understanding the influences on pricing including decoy and anchor pricing
  • Lead time and its impact on pricing
  • Displacement Analysis
  • Contracts
  • Technology available to monitor and manage pricing
Understanding Business Intelligence for Hotels
All business need some data to improve their business.  Accommodation providers have a lot of data available to them. This course explains how to get the data you need, what you can use it for and will cover some case studies on how hoteliers have improved their business using data and intelligence.
You will learn:
  • What types of reports do RM’s create
  • Where is data available
  • How to read, and gain insights from data and reports
  • How to present data in easily digestible format
Roles, Structure and Revenue Meetings
You will learn:
  • To understand the different types of structures and the benefits and challenges of each;
  • To understand the key elements of how revenue management integrates into an organisation;
  • The company culture is key to being successful in revenue roles, learn why
  • To understand the key elements of how revenue management integrates into an organisation;
  • Learn about the various roles that Revenue staff perform

To understand the importance of the Revenue Meeting and how it contributes to the culture across the business.

  • Importance of regular revenue meeting involving all department heads of hotel
  • What to discuss?
  • What reports to distribute prior to the meeting
  • How to ensure meeting is effective in setting strategy instead of just reviewing reports
IMPORTANT NOTES ON THE WORKSHOP AGENDA
  • The 2-day Workshop will allow you time to talk to the 4 trainers in breaks and in the sessions.  Its a great opportunity to ask the Experts for their tactics and strategies on any issues or topics you don’t understand.
  • The 2-day Workshop is not long enough to cover all the topics of each of the 10 courses that make up the Certificate program.  The workshop is intended to give you an overview, and importantly, some hands-on practice on some simulated revenue management activities.  The workshop has been designed to mostly cover activities that are difficult to present in an online format.
  • Day 1 of the workshop covers the first 3-4 topics fairly quickly.  This is to allow more time to do some “practice” activities in the Forecasting, Strategy and Pricing sessions using a simulator in group activities.  Depending on your own experience in these topics, you may like to study some of the online courses for topics 1-4 prior to the workshop.
  • Revenue Management Terms  – if you are completely new to Revenue Management, you will find it useful to study the commonly used terms in Course 1 – “Essential Components of Revenue Management” as well as our Glossary which you can find on the HSMAI Academy website.

JAKARTA

Late 2021

HSMAI Members US$550

Non Members US$650

SHANGHAI

Late 2021

HSMAI Members HK$3588

Non Members HK$5000

PHUKET

Tentative: mid-September 2021

HSMAI Members US$550

Non Members US$650

DELHI

Tentative: mid-September 2021

HSMAI Members US$650

Non Members US$800

SPECIAL RATE INCLUDES

  • 2-day workshop led by 4 expert trainers
  • Morning & Afternoon tea both days
  • Lunch both days
  • 12-months access to the 10 Online courses that make up the Certification Program
  • Certificate of Attendance for the Workshop
  • “Certificate of Revenue Management (Hospitality)” after you complete all 10 courses online

DO YOU WORK IN SINGAPORE?

If you work for a Singapore company, find out how you can receive funding support of up to 50% of qualifying costs.

CERTIFICATE

On completion of the 2-day Workshop, each participant who has attended 75% or more will receive a Certificate of Attendance.

For those who continue to complete the full 10-course online program, you will be awarded the “Certificate of Revenue Management (Hospitality)” by HSMAI Academy.

BRING YOUR COLLEAGUES?  USE OUR GROUP RATE

10% off Hotel revenue Course workshops with HSMAI

Book 2 or more people in one transaction and get 10% discount per person.

That means you SAVE AT LEAST $190.

CAN’T GET TO A WORKSHOP?  STUDY 100% ONLINE TO EARN YOUR CERTIFICATE

The “Certificate in Revenue Management (Hospitality)” is available as a 100% online course for those who can’t attend a workshop.  The course was designed to be studied online so is perfect for those on-property people who can’t ‘escape’ to attend a workshop.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 100% ONLINE COURSE

TRAINERS

Platinum Educational Partner:

Marina Bay Sands logo

 

Contact Us

Send us a message for any queries you have about HSMAI Asia Pacific and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

Start typing and press Enter to search