Thursday, June 25, 2009

FW: RevMax Meeting for 6/24

 
RevMax Meeting for   6/ 24 
        

Ira -Central Reservations

Review of weekly reports at RevMax.  Any updates to Denials and Regrets?  

 

We discussed how our new rate strategies are increasing our Denials. 

We have gone from 1 to 2 a day to 4 to 5.

We will keep watching this closely.

Forecast 

-June came in  over  LW by $6,000 and is under budget by $301,087.

 

-July came in  over LW by $13,000 and is under budget by $92,345.

We addressed restrictions in June just as we have for August when we are pacing to sell out.  

 

-August came  over last week by $ 6,000We are forecasting over budget by $44,329. 

The IRS group valued at $260,000 changed the forecast dramatically for August.

We are restricting the following for August -

  • Friends and Family
  • Comps
  • Trades
  • Employee rates
  • Industry rates  
Our #1 goal in August is to increase our ADR by $10.00. Our current ADR forecast is $141.00 and we want to move this up to $151.00. By increasing our rate strategies our aim is to maintain forecasted revenues and lower our occupancy forecast by 5% from 92% to 87%.

-September came in over LW by $3,000 and is budgeted  at  $ 59,951 under. 

 

GRC

 

June   

-  Increased by $ 7,000 to last week.

-  We are now  looking at being $150,000 under budget.   

  Attrition, Wash and rates are impacting our revenue pace.    

 

July

- Increased by $ 36,552 to last week 

- We are forecasting to come in under budget by $ 45,000  

- We are working with Mike on a meetings special e-blast campaign for July and have stepped up our outside weekly blitz campaigns to increase our lead potential. 

 

 August

 Increased by $ 9,027. We are forecasting to come in over budget by $ 125,000.

- This increase  over budget  is primarily from our IRS booking.  W e have increased our MAR rates in Daylight.   

 

 

 

 LMD's   

 

Our Complimentary Suite Upgrade program ends on 6/30. We closed out our Suite Upgrades for the weekends . 

 

Going forward We need to discuss how we are going to start getting a higher rate for suites through NOR 1 , updating BAR   and Corporate Strategies . 

 

We are suggesting a $10/$15 spread for BAR and a $10 spread for Corporate 

We  closed out our  $79.00 standard King LMD for July 2nd to July 7th  on Friday 6/12 .    

We will start a new LMD on Monday 6/22. $129.00 Standard Suite for 6/26 & 6/28 to 7/5. We will also include a complimentary bottle of wine. 

 

 Promo Channels -  Expedia   Travelocity  Travel Zoo  Orbits     Priceline    Kayak   Google   Face Book      

We are beginning the process of Yield Management for our Promo Channels. We need to look every week at where our reservations are being made and decide when to limit them by either cutting them off or increasing the rate.  

We are working on converting our Wholesale bookings to Magnolia Website bookings.

We created a card for the front desk to hand out to all of our Wholesale bookings that says, " Book your next reservation with us and stay before 9/30/09 and receive a free bottle of wine or a Harry's $10 discount.

 

Weekly STAR 

Better week -

6/14 to 6/20

1st comp set - our RevPAR came in at a 104.7% Index, 9.3% growth.

Our RevPAR growth came from Occupancy at 120.9% Index, 18.8% growth.

Downtown Denver got hit hard this week in both ADR and Occ losses.

With our strong occupancy Index we are showing opportunities in ADR gains. Our new Revenue Strategies should help us with this potential growth.  

We are challenging ourselves to increase our ADR Index and move our ranking up by 2.

 

Hotelligence

For the month of April of 09 we came in at 106 as compared to LY's 92%.  YTD we are running a 11 1% index as compared to LY at  68%. Our ranking was number  3 of 9 for  April and 3 of 9 for the year.

We finished 2008 at 86% Index and finished 2007 at a 98% Index.

Highlights:  

Finish review with Sarah and Keli from Travel Click.

  • We are requesting to see the top 150 vs. the top 60. We believe that there is more low hanging fruit to be annualized.
  • We are ordering a one time Monthly Hoteligence for May to reflect our 2nd comp set.

Future Hotelligence  

June  -   Total Revenue ranking decreased from 2 to 3 of 9. Weekdays  dropped from 2 to 3. Weekends  dropped from 2 to 3.

    We need to watch our losses in  6/ 21 to 6/27 & 6/ 30.

July  -    decreased from 6 to 7 of 9 overall. Weekdays  decreased from 5 to 6 of 9 . Weekends  decreased from 6 to 7 of 9. 

We need to watch July closely to understand why we are under performing.       We need to watch our losses in   7/ 1  to 7/3, 7/10 to 7/18, 7/24 to 7/28 and 7/30 to 7/31.

 We are now showing growth over the week of  7/6 to 7/9. This could be Oil companies coming in for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conference.   

 

 Upsell Program   Nor1   

-  Continue discussion o the effect of the Suite Upgrade Program and Keeping Fireplace suites available for upgrades.  

Is now working just fine. We will pick up just over $1,000 for this program in the month of May. 

  

 Strategies  & Follow up       

 

Denials - We have gone from 1 to 2 a day to 4 to 5.

 

Our #1 goal in August is to increase our ADR by $10.00. Our current ADR forecast is $141.00 and we want to move this up to $151.00. By increasing our rate strategies our aim is to maintain forecasted revenues and lower our occupancy forecast by 5% from 92% to 87%.

 

We are working with Mike on a meetings special e-blast campaign for July and have stepped up our outside weekly blitz campaigns to increase our lead potential. 

 

We are working on converting our Wholesale bookings to Magnolia Website bookings.

 

We are challenging ourselves to increase our ADR Index and move our ranking up by 2.

Continue Rate Discussions for August. 

 

 

Rate changes     

 

 Denver rate changes for 06-23-09

 06-23-09 39 LTS match some lower rates in market but not lowest

06/29-06/30 drop 1 tier to 159 match many low comp set rates in market

07/07-07/08 increase to 229 expect to sell out push rate in comp set

Our challenge was to looks at rate changes from a Yield Management Perspective.  

We went to EZRMS to look at it's BAR rate suggestions and then compared them to Rate View. The results were increases of 1 to 2 BAR's each week.  

 

Denver 06-23-09
Date Day Tier MLOS Blackout Event GR STE K STE FP GR net
16-Jun-09 Tue 6     BBI Int'l 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
17-Jun-09 Wed 6     BBI Int'l 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
18-Jun-09 Thu 3     BBI Int'l 159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
19-Jun-09 Fri 2       139.00 189.00 209.00 104.25
20-Jun-09 Sat 4       179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
21-Jun-09 Sun 4       179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
                   
22-Jun-09 Mon 4       179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
23-Jun-09 Tue 4       179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
24-Jun-09 Wed 7       259.00 299.00 319.00 194.25
25-Jun-09 Thu 7       259.00 299.00 319.00 194.25
26-Jun-09 Fri 1       119.00 179.00 199.00 89.25
27-Jun-09 Sat 1       119.00 179.00 199.00 89.25
28-Jun-09 Sun 3       159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
                   
29-Jun-09 Mon 3       159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
30-Jun-09 Tue 3       159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
01-Jul-09 Wed 2       139.00 189.00 209.00 104.25
02-Jul-09 Thu 0 10% off     109.00 179.00 199.00 81.75
03-Jul-09 Fri 0 10% off     109.00 179.00 199.00 81.75
04-Jul-09 Sat 0 10% off   4th of July 109.00 179.00 199.00 81.75
05-Jul-09 Sun 0 10% off     109.00 179.00 199.00 81.75
                   
06-Jul-09 Mon 4       179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
07-Jul-09 Tue 6       229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
08-Jul-09 Wed 6       229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
09-Jul-09 Thu 4       179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
10-Jul-09 Fri 1       119.00 179.00 199.00 89.25
11-Jul-09 Sat 3     Christian Booksellers 159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
12-Jul-09 Sun 3     Christian Booksellers 159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
                   
13-Jul-09 Mon 6     Christian Booksellers 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
14-Jul-09 Tue 6     Christian Booksellers 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
15-Jul-09 Wed 5     Christian Booksellers 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
16-Jul-09 Thu 3       159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
17-Jul-09 Fri 7 Gr = 2 No STE upgrades MileHigh Music Fest 259.00 299.00 319.00 194.25
18-Jul-09 Sat 7 2NT - GR=2 No STE upgrades MileHigh Music Fest 259.00 299.00 319.00 194.25
19-Jul-09 Sun 3       159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
                   
20-Jul-09 Mon 4       179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
21-Jul-09 Tue 6       229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
22-Jul-09 Wed 7     Travelwriting 259.00 299.00 319.00 194.25
23-Jul-09 Thu 5     Travelwriting 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
24-Jul-09 Fri 5     Travelwriting/Harley Dav 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
25-Jul-09 Sat 5     Harley Davidson 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
26-Jul-09 Sun 3     Harley Davidson 159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
                   
27-Jul-09 Mon 3     Harley Davidson 159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
28-Jul-09 Tue 4       179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
29-Jul-09 Wed 4       179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
30-Jul-09 Thu 3       159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
31-Jul-09 Fri 2       139.00 189.00 209.00 104.25
01-Aug-09 Sat 3       159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
02-Aug-09 Sun 3       159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
03-Aug-09 Mon 6   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
04-Aug-09 Tue 6   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
05-Aug-09 Wed 6   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
06-Aug-09 Thu 5   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
07-Aug-09 Fri 5   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
08-Aug-09 Sat 5   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
09-Aug-09 Sun 4   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
10-Aug-09 Mon 6   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
11-Aug-09 Tue 6   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
12-Aug-09 Wed 6   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
13-Aug-09 Thu 5   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
14-Aug-09 Fri 4   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
15-Aug-09 Sat 4   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
16-Aug-09 Sun 3   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
17-Aug-09 Mon 5   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
18-Aug-09 Tue 6   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
19-Aug-09 Wed 6   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
20-Aug-09 Thu 6   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 229.00 269.00 289.00 171.75
21-Aug-09 Fri 5 3 NT Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
22-Aug-09 Sat 5 2 NT Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
23-Aug-09 Sun 3   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
24-Aug-09 Mon 4   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 179.00 219.00 239.00 134.25
25-Aug-09 Tue 5   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
26-Aug-09 Wed 5   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 199.00 239.00 259.00 149.25
27-Aug-09 Thu 3   Govt&Disc. 5 rms ext stay 159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25
28-Aug-09 Fri 0       109.00 179.00 199.00 81.75
29-Aug-09 Sat 2       139.00 189.00 209.00 104.25
30-Aug-09 Sun 3       159.00 199.00 219.00 119.25

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