Hotel revenue management consulting is an independent review of how a hotel prices, distributes and forecasts its rooms, followed by the strategy, calendar, reports and training to earn more from the same inventory. Unlike outsourced revenue management, the consultant does not make the daily decisions; your team does, with a better plan.
Demand drivers in Dijon: Cote d'Or Grand Cru vineyards; Hospices de Beaune wine auction; the Route des Grands Crus; Burgundy gastronomy. Typical guests: wine and food travellers on 3 to 5 night stays in Dijon's old town and the vineyard towns of Beaune and the Cote d'Or. Where the work starts: the autumn harvest and Beaune auction as the year's high point, a gastronomy-led shoulder season, and French registration for rural wine-country lets.
Burgundy hotels sell to wine buyers, gastronomy tourists and Dijon's business travellers. The Hospices de Beaune auction and Dijon food fair justify the highest rates of the year, so we restrict discounting and close lower-priced room types early. In Dijon, midweek corporate demand supports weekday pricing, while Beaune hotels are almost entirely leisure-driven and peak at weekends. The comp set should separate Beaune boutique hotels from Dijon city properties.
The full service is described on our hotel revenue management consulting page; this page covers how it applies in Dijon.