Tuesday, March 24, 2009

FW: RevMax Meeting for 3/17

 
RevMax Meeting for   3/1 7 
   

Forecast 

 

-January's  OccStat came in $30,521 under budget and $224,835 over LY.

-February  OccStat came in $118,081 under budget; $ 61,968 over  LY..

-March  increased by $  1,000 to last week and is now at $ 16 2,431 under budget. 

-April   increased by  $11,000  to last week 's forecast  and  is $ 24,854 over  budget.  

-May  came in  over  last weeks forecast by $ 4,000and is  under budget by $  12,498. 

-June's 1st forecast came in under budget by $81,348.

 

 

GRC   and Revenue Analysis

 

 

 March 

-We had a drop in revenues of $  5, 237 from last week.  

 -Group is now being forecasted to come in under budget by $145,000.

 

April 

-April  decreased by $ 20,032 from last week. 

-We are now forecasting $ 35,000 over budget. 

 

May  

-Increased by $  3,515 over last week.

-May is on track to hit budget.

 

June   

- Stayed flat to last week.

-We are pacing  $80,000 under budget. 

 

 

LMD's  

 

 We have a $99.00 rate set up for the weekend of 3/27. We need to decide on 3/24 if we are going to run it. 

 

 

Our Spring break special will run from  Monday, 3/1 to  Saturday, 4/ 4 

Rates specials are daily ranging from $89.00 to $149.00. 

  

Expedia  Travelocity

-Evaluations  on parity and performance.

- We are coming up consistently in the top 5 revenue producing hotels.

 -We are just beginning to track Travelocity.  

 

 Weekly STAR 

 

 Denver

·         Good week – 109% index on occ / 89% on rate = 97% index on RevPar

·         Trans was 171% index +64% change / Group was 12% index -75% change

·         Thursday and Saturday were our strongest days / Monday weakest

·         Comp set was down 31% vs. we were down 15%

Hotelligence

We cam in at 1 08% Index  for  February .

-Tracking of Corporate negotiated on Hotel Concepts as it appears on Hotelligence

-Low hanging fruit. Accounts that are paying $180 or more with the competition.

-Address Corporate Accounts that ate coming back and asking for a lower rate.

Upsell Program  nor1  

 - We should be able to get this up in running with Fire place suites. 

Strategies  & Follow up    

-Ken  setting Day of Deals. We need to look at if it is beneficial for him to go out further than 24 hours.

-Suite Upsell set till 4/15 

-Future Hotelligence

-SATO & SATO Spotlight 

-Fedrooms.com  

-Corporate GDS accounts set up to flex with Consortia discounts

-30% off Consortia Discounts till 3/22

-52.80 Rate  is now set at

      $149 Mon,Tues,Weds,Thursday

      $99 Fri, Sat, Sun

-Fade Rates for Central Res - Set another rate plan called Fade

-Reports from Central Res to evaluate Regrets, Turndowns and Cancelations

-Reviewing Bookstat at RevMAx 

-Fedrooms.com should be up in running with 10% commission 

Front Desk

Hotel Concepts Tracking
-Repeat Customers
-Own the Welcome
-Contest / Registration 
    We need to discuss setting a meeting with Jeff Parker on these topics 
 
Harry's Bar
-Contest Registration
 
Dynamic Packaging  
-We audited packages.
-Should be up in running on Hotel Concepts
 
Corporate Negotiated
LRA/NLRA - Open
Consortia % Discounts
Suite Upgrade Strategies  
 
Rate changes  
 

Mark Wellbrock
Director of Sales
The Magnolia Hotel
818 17th Street  Denver, Colorado 80202
Direct: (303) 607-0200  Fax:  (303) 607-0600
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