Channel management
Yield management, also known as Revenue Management, is the process of understanding, anticipating and reacting to consumer behaviour in order to maximize revenue or profits. Firms that engage in yield management usually use computer yield management systems to do so. The Internet has greatly facilitated this process. Other terms to describe this process are revenue optimization and demand management. Yield management can result in price discrimination, where a firm charges customers consuming otherwise identical goods or services a different price for doing so.
Three industries where yield management is used most heavily are passenger air transport, lodging and rental car. Airlines monitor through the use of specialized software how seats are being reserved and react accordingly, as for example by offering discounts when it appears as if seats will otherwise be vacant. Hotels use Revenue Management in largely the same way, to calculate the rates, rooms and restrictions on sales in order to best maximize the return for the property. In the rental car industry, Revenue Management deals with the sale of optional insurance, damage waivers and vehicle upgrades. It accounts for a major portion of the rental company's profitability, and is monitored on a daily basis.
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