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Title: Strategic Pricing for Hotels: Leveraging Consumer and Marketing Knowledge to Enhance Revenue (formerly Strategic Pricing for Hotels: Revenue Enhancement through Pricing)

Singapore (August 3 - 5, 2009)
Course Cost US$2,500
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Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. (July 6 - 8, 2009)
Course Cost US$1,895 Apply Online*

Brussels, Belgium (July 13 - 15, 2009)
Course Cost €1,745 Apply Online*

Course Focus:

Strategic pricing involves an understanding of market segmentation, advertising, consumer psychology, market research, value creation, accounting, and revenue management. The format of the class involves class discussion, case studies and lecture. The course does involve simple mathematical analysis using Excel. More advanced pricing techniques used by industry are discussed in general terms.

Key Benefits:

Learn techniques to increase revenue by better understanding customers and how they make decisions. Learn also how to incorporate pricing decisions into the overall strategy of the firm.

Topics Include:

  • What is price and how to change prices

  • Components of value and how to increase the perceptions of value in order to earn higher prices

  • How to use consumer research to determine consumers’ willingness to pay

  • Consumer psychology and decision making and how firms can use this knowledge to make better pricing decisions

  • How to understand market positioning and the competitive framework within which the firm operates

  • How to easily explain the concepts of revenue management to others in your firm

  • High-level interviews with key industry executives involved in pricing

Faculty

  • Stowe Shoemaker, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Professor: Singapore, (August 3 - 5, 2009)

  • Stowe Shoemaker, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Professor: Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., (July 6 - 9, 2009)

  • Stowe Shoemaker, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Professor: Brussels, Belgium, (July 13 - 15, 2009)

Level

* Those who have completed “Strategic Pricing and Revenue Management for Hotels” in previous years should not enroll in this course due to significant overlap of course material.

View Course Schedules by Location

PDP Schedule for Singapore January 2009

PDP Schedule for Singapore July 2009

PDP Schedule for Brussels, Belgium*

PDP Schedule for Ithaca, New York*

*You will be re-directed to the School of Hotel Administration website of Cornell University

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PDP January 2009 online application
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Download an application to submit via postal mail or email to cni-execed@ntu.edu.sg

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January 2009 PDP Application
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