Wednesday, June 3, 2015

call for papers - IJRM Special Issue on Pricing and Revenue Management in the International Hospitality Industry

Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached a call for papers from the International Journal of Revenue Management (IJRM)

Special Issue on Pricing and Revenue Management in the International Hospitality Industry Guest editors: Jean-Pierre van der Rest and H.G. Parsa

In this special issue the focus will be on key emergent revenue management topics to deepen consumer insights and enable better application of disciplined analytics to optimize revenues and profits.
Authors are encouraged to submit high quality manuscripts to this special issue. Some suggested research areas are included here though we are not limited to these topics. Feel free to contact the editors if you have any questions or suggestions.

* Behavioral Pricing - deep insights into how consumers perceive, process, and respond to prices
* Price Presentation - greater understanding of impact of price formats, price endings, discounts, price levels and fences on revenue management
* Data and Segmentation - new possibilities to unlock customer-oriented data
* Discrete Choice Modeling and Conjoint Analysis - consumer choice in the context of pricing
* Dynamic Pricing and Learning - determining optimal selling prices under changing circumstances
* Forecasting - improving the quality of forecasts through better models and evaluation
* Revenue Analytics - customer-oriented metrics to assess revenue management performance
* Technology, Internet & Revenue Management Systems - capturing abundant consumer data via an advanced (IT) infrastructure to collect and store demand data and to automate the processing of revenue management decisions.
* Distribution Channels - challenges faced by hotels in managing ever evolving distribution channels

Key deadlines

* Manuscript submissions - June 30, 2015
* Review reports - July 31, 2015
* Revised paper submission - September 31, 2015
* Final manuscript submission to publisher - October 31, 2015
* Special Issue - December 31, 2015.

Please feel free to share this call with as much colleagues and students you like. For information you can contact me at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,
Jean-Pierre van der Rest