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МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЕ

MATHEMATICAL MODELING

ОБЗОР МОДЕЛЕЙ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ДОХОДНОСТЬЮ В ГОСТИНИЧНОМ БИЗНЕСЕ

AN OVERVIEW OF THE HOTEL REVENUE MANAGEMENT MODELS

Бондоловский

А. М.

Bandalouski

A. M.

andrei.bandalouski@gmail.com

Объединенный институт проблем информатики НАН БеларусиBelarus

2014

04102016

026683

2016

Бондоловский А.М.

Bandalouski A.M.

Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

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https://inf.grid.by/jour/article/view/146

Приводится краткое описание теории управления доходностью в гостиничном бизнесе, рас-крываются основные понятия. Предлагается новая классификация процессов управления доход-ностью, дается обзор литературы по динамическому ценообразованию, методам прогнозирования и оптимизационным моделям, применяемым в управлении доходностью в гостиничном бизнесе. Указы-ваются перспективные направления будущих исследований.

The paper gives a brief scope of Hotel Revenue Management theory and discusses its basic def-initions. It also suggests a new classification of Revenue Management processes and surveys dynamic pricing, forecasting and optimization models employed in Hotel Revenue Management. Last section proposes promising directions of future research.

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