Tourism activity has accelerated in summer to a growth of +17.3% compared to 2019, compared to the +16.7% with which it closed the second quarter. This is according to the Summer Tourism Business Valuation Report (IIITr) 2023 and Outlook for IVTr and closing 2023 , prepared by the association for tourism excellence, Exceltur.

It is well known that information is power; having all the possible data available provides us with knowledge to improve the performance of our business. The importance of data is also key in a hotel's revenue management strategy; having the maximum amount of data available will allow the revenue manager to optimise their work and achieve higher revenues.

The integration of a hotel with sales channels is a crucial part of your strategy. Getting this integration right will increase your visibility, facilitate future booking management and allow you to correctly apply your pricing policy and the work of your revenue manager.

We all know that, nowadays, it is necessary to integrate several suppliers in order to reach the optimal technological stack for our hotel. However, the abuse of suppliers can lead us to a very difficult situation to manage, in which we cannot touch anything in order not to break everything.

The new proposal from the TecnoHotel team led by the tireless David Val is intelligent and simple. Hoteliers cannot always travel to attend congresses, they are not always organised nearby and this means that many of them miss the opportunity to have contact with professionals and technology companies with which to improve their business.

Cancellations have always been a problem for the industry, a problem that reached an all-time high during the last pandemic. It is for this reason that protecting against cancellations in the direct sales channel remains key for a hotel. And this is precisely what makes FlexMyRoom, without a doubt, the perfect partner to reduce the historical problem of hotel cancellations, among others.

Following our philosophy of adding technologies that can benefit our customers, we have recently added a new RMS to our list of integrations.

TecnoHotel is outdoing itself again. The idea is simple: "Learn about hotel management, revenue, sales, management tools and more, in a single morning". Lectures, round tables and networking concentrated in a single morning, travelling around different cities in Spain.

In this third issue we talk about consolidation after a 2022 of growth and hard work. In FOCUS, GuestPro from the inside we focus on us, on the work we are doing and on the clients we are adding to our project.

We recently explained the reasons why a professional accommodation should be on Airbnb. Now we take a closer look at this topic, talking in a webinar with two of the platform's managers in Spain, who tell us how to be there and get the maximum benefit for our business.