...Tim Baker; Aysajan Eziz; Robert J. Harrington Purpose This paper aims to (1) organize the open literature on hotel revenue management systems, (2) compare practitioner systems in terms of functionality and (3) integrate (1)-(2) into research stream recommendations for the open literature...

... to an established econometric forecasting model to determine the optimal room rate. The following sections review and evaluate the three types of discussions about hotel revenue management, conceptually develop a method to arrive at the optimal room rate that maximizes the total profit, and provide an example...