International Journal of Hospitality Management. A blended model of restaurant deliveries, capacity constraints and distributions channels: Theory and empirical observations. Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management. Risk information and markdowns-induced incentives to participate in hotel room resale schemes. Hotel analytics: The case for reverse competitive sets.

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Hotel revenue management forecasting accuracy: The hidden impact of booking windows. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. Growing the pie: An examination of coopetition benefits in the US lodging industry. Judgmental adjustments of RMS hotel occupancy forecasts: Does user override frequency impact forecasting accuracy at different forecasting time horizons? Tourism Economics Go moderate! How hotels’ cancellation policies affect their financial performance. in hospitality and tourism management, Purdue University Bradford Wiley Memorial Best Published Research Paper of the Year Award, and his research grants total over $600,000. He received numerous research awards, is a three-time recipient of ICHRIE’s W. Schwartz teaches courses in hotel management at both the graduate and undergraduate level and mentors doctoral and master’s students. Recent projects explored novel hotel forecasting approaches, forecasting accuracy measures, hotel competitive sets, overbooking optimization and revenue management performance measures.ĭr. His scholarly research and industry consulting focus on the core technical elements of the revenue management cycle: forecasting, optimization and monitoring as well as the closely related topics of strategic pricing and consumer and firm decisions in advanced reservation environments. Prior to joining academia, he had over a decade of lodging industry experience as a manager and an entrepreneur. Marriott Senior Faculty Fellow for Hospitality Finance and Revenue Management in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Virginia Tech where he served as the director of graduate programs, and an associate professor at the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the University of Delaware, Dr. Zvi Schwartz is a professor in the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware.

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