Enhanced Room Block Utilization
Companies that have employees with unpredictable travel requirements - such as truck drivers and emergency workers - face a dilemma when blocking rooms in advance to guarantee availability. It can be very difficult - and costly - for them to determine the correct number of rooms to reserve. If they purchase too few, their employees will have no place to stay. If they purchase too many, they will waste money.
Corporate Lodging Consultants helps solve this problem by combining data-rich, real-time billing systems with expert analysis. CLC collects real-time billing information to identify up-to-the-minute trends in room block utilization. Then, CLC incorporates anticipated changes in volume into optimization models to arrive at the optimum number and pattern of guaranteed rooms. This process significantly reduces the amount CLC's clients spend on guaranteed but unused rooms, yet does not compromise room availability. With CLC's help, some clients have reduced their room block expenses by more than 10 percent.