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The Strand Palace, what investment in IT has done for the hotel

By James Russell: The Strand Palace, what investment in IT has done for the hotel

March 28, 2011

The Strand Palace Hotel is one of London’s leading hotels and on Wednesday 13th April will share its successful return on investment IT strategy with other hoteliers. General Manager of the Strand Palace David MacRae and IT Manager Ben Chapman will both look at what technology investment has done for the hotel in an event hosted by EasyRMS.

Easy RMS, a leading voice in the discipline and skill of Revenue Management, believes that if more and more hotels learn about and take on board the key theoretical and real-world principles of Revenue Management, this can only benefit the industry.

In this regard, for many years the company has led free Educational Seminars around the world, including in the UK, France, Germany, China, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa.

For the first leg of its 2011 European tour EasyRMS is returning to London, with an event taking place at Strand Palace Hotel.

As with all EasyRMS Seminars, any hotel professional willing to learn about the key concepts of Revenue Managegment is welcome to attend.

Wednesday 13th April – 2.00pm to 5.00pm – Strand Palace Hotel, London

The highlights of this spring event include an introduction by EasyRMS’ Mike Gadbury, Vice President – Strategic Sales, who will talk about what is important in a Revenue Management System, and show an example of what is available for hoteliers today.

Niels Mekenkamp, Vice President – Consulting Services, EasyRMS, will then lead the discussion: What is Important to You as Revenue Managers?

This will include:

  • Forecasting market segmentation vs other groupings
  • Room categories and channels
  • RevPar / other revenues, arrival / departure / guests, in-house forecasts
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data analytics, history, trends, other revenues, planning and scheduling

The Impact of RMS at the Strand Palace will be presented by Ben Chapman, IT Manager, Strand Palace Hotel, and will look at various elements of EzRMS™ that are currently benefiting the property, including control of rates and forecasting; automatic updates of rates, PMS, CRS and channels; and business reporting for all departments, forecasts and resource planning.

The event will conclude with The GM’s Perspective, presented by David MacRae, General Manager, Strand Palace Hotel, who will focus his talk on what the IT investment has done for the hotel.

To register, or to find out more about Educational Seminars in your region,

please call Raissa on 0207 495 0773

email  Seminar@EasyRMS.com

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