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What factors does are considered in the retail rate recommendation process? -
ANSWER ✓ 1) RP compares unconstrained retail-tied demand to the the hotels
forecast transient supply
2) Competitive position
3)Rate Responsiveness
What does Premium room pricing do? Who has access to this? - ANSWER ✓
Creates a competitive advantage in pricing decisions by identifying revenue
opportunities for premium rooms through KDATE. Available to Full service,
luxury, and modern essential hotels.
What is the function of RPO? - ANSWER ✓ to provide recommendations to
optimize retail profitability
How many days in advance does RPO provide recommendations? - ANSWER ✓
90 days standard and 330 paid
T/F user implemented rates other than the RPO recommendation could impact
remaining demand due to rate elasticity - ANSWER ✓ True
T/F On days when Auto-publish is scheduled, RPO will send all recommended
retail rates (on non-lockout dates) to HPP/MARSHA. Auto-publish will occur once
a day after the overnight optimization. - ANSWER ✓ True
Will Auto-publishing of rates occur during the intra-day or user initiated
optimizations? - ANSWER ✓ No
, What is Hurdle Revenue? - ANSWER ✓ it is the minimum amount of revenue
(for an entire stay) a reservation must generate in order to be booked
What is the purpose of a hurdle revenue? - ANSWER ✓ to filter out excess
demand
How often are hurdle revenue updated? - ANSWER ✓ 4 times a day during intra-
day optimization
what are the 3 key metrics of the Hurdle ADVisor? - ANSWER ✓ 1) Hurdle
revenue vs yesterday
2) Total Occupancy vs yesterday
3) Applied Remaining Demand vs yesterday
T/F hurdle, priority dates are generated and displayed by room collection -
ANSWER ✓ True
What three factors impact Hurdle Revenue? - ANSWER ✓ 1) remaining transient
demand
2) available transient supply
3) changes in rate
Why should you avoid setting values for hurdle at 0%? - ANSWER ✓ it will alert
at any and all changes
Hurdle Revenue is converted into restrictions and placed in ______ at the ______
level - ANSWER ✓ MARSHA, Rate Program
In most cases why would there not be a hurdle revenue? - ANSWER ✓ Because
the remaining transient demand does not exceed the available transient supply
T/F inventory optimizations affect the hurdle revenue calculation - ANSWER ✓
False
How does hurdle revenue affect the way inventory optimizations calculates the
room pool authorization recommendations? - ANSWER ✓ Inventory optimization
considers the demand that crosses the hurdle: