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António, N., de Almeida, A. & Nunes, L. (2019). Big data in hotel revenue management: exploring cancellation drivers to gain insights into booking cancellation behavior. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly. 60 (4), 298-319
N. M. António et al., "Big data in hotel revenue management: exploring cancellation drivers to gain insights into booking cancellation behavior", in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 298-319, 2019
@article{antónio2019_1714609983235, author = "António, N. and de Almeida, A. and Nunes, L.", title = "Big data in hotel revenue management: exploring cancellation drivers to gain insights into booking cancellation behavior", journal = "Cornell Hospitality Quarterly", year = "2019", volume = "60", number = "4", doi = "10.1177/1938965519851466", pages = "298-319", url = "https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1938965519851466" }
TY - JOUR TI - Big data in hotel revenue management: exploring cancellation drivers to gain insights into booking cancellation behavior T2 - Cornell Hospitality Quarterly VL - 60 IS - 4 AU - António, N. AU - de Almeida, A. AU - Nunes, L. PY - 2019 SP - 298-319 SN - 1938-9655 DO - 10.1177/1938965519851466 UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1938965519851466 AB - n the hospitality industry, demand forecast accuracy is highly impacted by booking cancellations, which makes demand-management decisions difficult and risky. In attempting to minimize losses, hotels tend to implement restrictive cancellation policies and employ overbooking tactics, which, in turn, reduce the number of bookings and reduce revenue. To tackle the uncertainty arising from booking cancellations, we combined the data from eight hotels’ property management systems with data from several sources (weather, holidays, events, social reputation, and online prices/inventory) and machine learning interpretable algorithms to develop booking cancellation prediction models for the hotels. In a real production environment, improvement of the forecast accuracy due to the use of these models could enable hoteliers to decrease the number of cancellations, thus, increasing confidence in demand-management decisions. Moreover, this work shows that improvement of the demand forecast would allow hoteliers to better understand their net demand, that is, current demand minus predicted cancellations. Simultaneously, by focusing not only on forecast accuracy but also on its explicability, this work illustrates one other advantage of the application of these types of techniques in forecasting: the interpretation of the predictions of the model. By exposing cancellation drivers, models help hoteliers to better understand booking cancellation patterns and enable the adjustment of a hotel’s cancellation policies and overbooking tactics according to the characteristics of its bookings. ER -