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 Orlando: Walt Disney World and Universal calendars; Epcot festivals and Halloween events; Convention traffic at the Orange County Convention Center; Youth sports tournaments at ESPN Wide World of Sports. Typical guests: Families booking 5 to 10 nights in vacation-home communities such as Kissimmee, Reunion and Davenport, often months in advance. Where the work starts: Long-lead pricing that captures early family bookings, bedroom-count positioning against the huge vacation-home supply, and length-of-stay discounts that win full-week stays.
Orlando hotels balance theme-park leisure, convention groups at the Orange County Convention Center and youth sports tournaments. We forecast against the park and convention calendars, price group blocks with displacement analysis for summer and holiday weeks, and track separate comp sets for I-Drive, Lake Buena Vista and the attractions corridor. Ticket packages and park shuttle access often move conversion more than small rate changes.
The full service is described on our hotel revenue management consulting page; this page covers how it applies in Orlando.