We just finished analyzing 60,000 bookings from the last quarter 2025. The takeaway is a bit of a gut-punch for the industry: When your inventory is locked into “Standard” or “Deluxe” boxes, AI search can’t see value — it can only rank you by price. That’s not a failure of the algorithm. It’s a failure of our inventory. Why AI Can't Sell Your "Deluxe" Room? AI doesn't care about your labels; it cares about intent signals. If a guest wants a "quiet workspace with a view," and

Imagine this: No new rooms. No extra guests. Yet, your revenue skyrockets. Unrealistic?  For those still relying on outdated booking engines, absolutely.But our clients are proving it can be done: by using an AI-powered Sales Engine instead of a traditional Booking Engine.      You’re Not Selling Rooms — You’re Selling Experiences   If you're still thinking in room categories like it's 2005 and depending on a standard booking engine, you're leaving serious money on the table.

**Joint guest post with Pricepoint , a proud partner of GauVendi** Dynamic pricing has been a game-changer for the hospitality industry, especially for revenue management. It was once only accessible to large hotels and airlines, but with advancements in technology, such as Pricepoint’s AI-powered pricing engine, even small and independent hotels can now leverage the benefits of dynamic pricing. Revenue managers can track and adjust room prices based on factors such as season

Forecasting total demand post-Corona, using historic data to predict total future demand… it’s a challenge. Instead of trying to improve your forecast, you might want to consider changing things you can control, by changing what you sell and how you manage your inventory. If you would start by adding more products on your retail shelf and introduce smart filters and selling tactics (Why not replace your booking engine with a sales engine?!) you will be much more agile and ad

Once you made the decision to exchange your online booking engine with a pro-active sales engine (including novel sales & conversion techniques like for example attribute-based selling), you also need to turn your attention to a new set of KPI’s to optimize performance. We like to clarify attribute-based selling in this context. We are referring to the de-bundling of the room experience in various room features and attributes which are being upsold directly at the point of sa

June 2021, Carina Stegmayer, Co-founder GauVendi To start off with, why should you change the way you manage your inventory? The simple...

The real way to sell your hotel the way it deserves. May 31, 2021, Markus Mueller, Co-founder GauVendi Around two decades ago, hotels began clustering their room inventory into simple categories that could easily be sold online. Since then, they have lost control over how their own room inventory is sold and distributed . Third-party booking platforms often drive a large part of a hotel’s revenue and have made hotel products very comparable. They have standardized them for th

New insights gained from consumer buying behavior will ultimately be of great value to hotel operators!