Hotelier India - November 2016

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Almost a year after Marriott announced Starwood’s acquisition; the titans completed all regulatory norms to create the largest hotel company in the world. The combined entity will now offer over 5,700 properties with 1.1 million rooms in more than 110 countries, which will be managed by 500,000-plus associates. Marriott veterans like Rajeev Menon have been assigned the mission to align the synergies of the two brands seamlessly and ensure that the merger takes place smoothly. In our cover story, Menon, who is Marriott International’s COO for APac (excluding Greater China) outlines how these integration systems will emerge to warrant that partners, hotel operators, shareholders, associates, and customers, feel comfortable through it all. In Industry Debate, we speak to experts of hospitality brands to understand how they balance their occupancy rates to effectively maximise their revenue. On delving into whether they have a process to arrive at optimized, time-sensitive and customer-targeted pricing strategies to manage their room inventory, we learnt that hoteliers rely significantly on revenue management software. The latter not only helps them in forecasting, but also assists in determining hurdles, benchmark rates, and oversell limits on any given day. Fitness is now a necessity for most travellers and guests. Hotel gyms, which were once added as an afterthought, have now become an integral part of hotel facilities. In our Design feature, we shine the spotlight on gym equipment and find that several gym equipment manufacturers and hoteliers are confident that within the next 10 years even mid-segment hotels are expected to provide on-premise fitness services. This is just a primer; there is a lot more that makes this an information-packed November issue.