Revinate’s annual hospitality convention, which centered on business updates, development plans, and new product launches, has concluded for the yr — and we’re nonetheless buzzing with pleasure!
This yr’s convention introduced in 250+ prospects (50% first-timers and 50% repeat NAVIGATE attendees) and 15 sponsoring firms. The rooms have been filled with CMOs, GMs, Reservation Gross sales Managers, Income Managers, homeowners, business leaders, and extra.
With over 300 folks on web site, greater than ten informative and thought-provoking classes and panels, and a energetic keynote led by Jim Lawless, there’s a lot to unpack, however we’ll deal with the highest 4 takeaways from the complete occasion.
What you will note right here
Gasoline income development with data-driven methods
Revinate CEO, Bryson Koehler, kicked off NAVIGATE Miami 2024 with the thrilling information of our newest innovation, Revinate CDP. Bryson then took us by means of the concepts, ache factors, and breakthroughs that led us to the place we’re right now. The launch of Revinate CDP is actually only the start.
“Once we speak about launching CDP, understand that there’s nearly a thousand different enhancements rolled up into this launch, rolled up into this improve…What we’ve launched is a data-driven, outcome-focused suite of capabilities that drive extra worthwhile bookings to your property.” – Bryson Koehler, Revinate CEO
He launched key staff members, Jason, our CTO, and Leura, our VP of Product. Collectively, these two shared the why behind the CDP and the significance of capturing visitor knowledge.
In her session, “Unlocking your resort’s full income potential: Methods for fulfillment,” Caryl Helsel, Founder & CEO of Dragonfly Strategists, shared success tales and underscored the significance of leveraging know-how to drive income and improve operational effectivity.
She mentioned profitable collaborations with purchasers and showcased tangible outcomes achieved by these purchasers, emphasizing the position of know-how in driving enterprise development and efficiency.
Collectively, these classes explored the concept of leveraging knowledge and know-how to energy direct income channels and maximize NOI.
Embrace the shift in journey developments and their impact on projections
You might have observed that demand was a bit decrease in Q1. Resort efficiency has been softening, significantly within the first quarter of the yr, and demand has been down for 4 consecutive quarters. Challenges akin to detrimental inflation-adjusted RevPAR and declining profitability because of rising bills have been named as some causes by Emmy Hise, Sr. Dir. of Hospitality Analytics, from CoStar Group in her session, “CoStar Group market outlook and developments.”
However, CoStar is projecting a 4.1% RevPar improve for the yr. On the inbound aspect, they’re projecting worldwide journey to surpass pre-pandemic ranges by three % this yr. Potential development drivers embrace the restoration of company journey, inbound worldwide journey, and continued home leisure journey.
Maggie Rauch, Analysis Chief from Deloitte, highlighted a few of these development drivers in her session “Tendencies shaping the way forward for the journey business offered by Deloitte.” Maggie mentioned a big shift in shopper conduct relating to journey. Regardless of financial uncertainties and excessive inflation, journey spending stays resilient and continues to outperform different discretionary spending classes.
Primarily based on Deloitte Shopper Alerts, journey is behaving extra like a necessity than a need. Maggie additionally introduced up the rise of distant work as a forerunner in reshaping journey patterns. This new group, termed “laptop computer luggers,” are taking shorter, extra frequent journeys and increasing their stays to mix work and leisure.
Deloitte additionally touched on the significance of utilizing AI to reinforce the journey expertise for each the visitor and the hotelier. Revinate CDP, as mentioned above, is a perfect instrument to start out implementing right now and brighten that outlook for tomorrow.
The digital panorama is remodeling; so do you have to
Talking of AI, Revinate’s Dominic Donatoni had a hearth chat with Benchmark Hospitality’s Evan Crawford and Jesse Thompson, throughout which they explored “the strategic position of know-how companions in profitable mergers, acquisitions, and new openings.”
The group emphasised the significance of conducting a radical audit of your property’s tech stack (and each property acquired). They warned towards tech waste, i.e., redundancies and underutilized platforms. In addition they identified the necessity for adaptability on all sides throughout any interval of change and development. From there, Evan and Jesse shared their pleasure for the brand new Revinate CDP, stressing its capabilities to operationalize knowledge, permitting them to combine it into numerous advertising and operations points to create holistic buyer journeys and guarantee efficient communication.
Greg Land, World Phase Chief with AWS, additionally touched on adaptability and resilience in his session, “Empower innovation by means of resilience, tradition, and know-how.” He reciprocated the necessity for companies to evolve and adapt to outlive, significantly within the face of technological developments. There’s a rising pattern in direction of leveraging knowledge for personalization and innovation regardless of the hole between recognizing the potential of AI/machine studying and really implementing these applied sciences.
As extra hoteliers acknowledge the advantages and necessity of investing in technological enhancements for each their visitors and their workers, Greg warns that they need to additionally contemplate the necessity for constant know-how throughout all visitor touchpoints. That want for consistency is strictly what Evan and Jesse have been selling once they mentioned the prevalence of tech waste.
It appears the hospitality business’s digital transformation is underway, and it’s time to get on board or be left behind.
Optimize your income with business technique
Revinate’s CMO, Karen Stephens, took to the stage to facilitate a panel dialogue, “Unlocking the potential of economic technique.” The panel centered on the significance of complete income monitoring to supply a extra holistic understanding of monetary efficiency. This method helps establish areas of enchancment extra simply and considers issues like guest-paid income and hotel-collected income. By shifting from conventional metrics like RevPAR to a extra holistic view and together with issues of internet working revenue (NOI) and asset worth, inns can optimize their enterprise combine and improve profitability.
The panel additionally dove extra into the concept of economic technique, the place choices are data-driven by collaborative efforts throughout completely different departments, together with gross sales, digital, finance, and operations.
Patrick Norton, VP of Advertising and marketing & Gross sales and Managing Companion of Brittain Resorts & Accommodations, additionally praised data-driven choices, emphasizing the significance of successfully amassing and leveraging buyer knowledge to enhance conversion charges by personalizing advertising efforts. His session, “Mastering conversions: Crafting an omnichannel reserving journey with Revinate,” prompt taking buyer knowledge and working it again to the fundamentals. He burdened the importance of selling fundamentals akin to analytics monitoring, e-blasts, and PPC slightly than chasing after flashy developments.
A longtime Revinate fanatic, Patrick advocates for investing in direct advertising efforts and prioritizing buyer retention methods. He mentioned the advantages of remarketing to present prospects, changing OTA prospects into direct bookers, and implementing initiatives like member pricing and OTA win-back campaigns to foster long-term visitor relationships.
These classes delivered quite a lot of dialogue on methods for optimizing business efficiency and maximizing income by means of efficient advertising and gross sales approaches.
Study from the Consultants
NAVIGATE Miami 2024 introduced loads to contemplate, take dwelling, and apply. A recap is great, however it’s nothing in comparison with being there and feeling the vitality within the room.
Hoteliers took that vitality and ran with it because the convention drew shut. With a renewed pleasure concerning the business, new instruments to drive direct bookings and develop their companies, and invaluable networking alternatives, this yr’s NAVIGATE Miami was top-of-the-line but.
We’re already wanting ahead to subsequent yr’s occasions!
