Marriott international increases revenue by implementing a Group Pricing Optimizer

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Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-57

  Hormby, Sharon ^a   Morrison, Julia ^a   Dave, Prashant ^a   Meyers, Michele ^a   Tenca, Tim ^a  

^a Marriott International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Group business; Lodging hotel industry; Optimization; Pricing; Revenue management; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 76949084463     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1090.0482     Document Type: Article

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