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 Pittsburgh: Steelers, Penguins and Pirates seasons; Carnegie Mellon and Pitt calendars; Medical and tech corporate travel; Summer concerts and festivals. Typical guests: Game-day and university families on 2 to 3 night stays, medical and corporate guests. Where the work starts: Game-day and commencement premiums, medical-stay rates, and winter floors.
Pittsburgh hotels serve corporate, medical, university and sports demand, with conventions at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center filling group business. We price Steelers weekends and commencements early, manage university and convention blocks with displacement analysis, and track a comp set split between downtown and Oakland, since each reacts to different calendars.
The full service is described on our hotel revenue management consulting page; this page covers how it applies in Pittsburgh.