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The iTIMS Internet Competitive Rate Analysis Report is a detailed analysis of Internet rates being distributed by 'Travel' and 'hotel-brand' websites for a competitive set of hotels over a select period in the future. The Report calculates the lowest rates from all selected websites and displays the lowest rates by date and website. The Report integrates with the 'original' TIMS Report and compares the lowest unrestricted rates from the selected websites to the seamless CRS rates being distributed via GDS. In addition to the Reports, the iTIMS Online program allows subscribers to generate fresh, live Reports anytime of the day or night from both Internet and Hotel websites.
 
The iTIMS Report is divided into four different areas: [Please click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader]
 
 
1. The Lowest Website compares all of the websites together and then displays the lowest rate found each day for each hotel in the competitive set. Alerts are used to highlight any dates where Internet rates were found available but Seamless CRS rates were not available. The name of the website(s) that carried the lowest rate is abbreviated by codes in the following chart. The Variance chart is calculated by comparing the 'host' hotel's lowest rate to each of the competitors' lowest rate.
 
 
 
Lowest Website Rate
Lowest Website
  
 
 
2. The Low Rates by Website details each website and shows the low rates for each hotel from that website. The second chart illustrates the change in rates from one reporting period to the next. The Variance between the website rates and Seamless CRS rates is also calculated. When website rates are lower than the Seamless CRS rates, alerts are used highlight those dates.
 
       
 
Low Rates by Website
Rate Changes by Website
  
 
 
3. The Low Rates by Hotel Site shows the low rate from the 'hotel-brand' websites for most, if not all, of the hotels in the competitive set. The second chart illustrates the change in rates from one reporting period to the next. Then the Variance between the website rates and Seamless CRS rates is calculated. When website rates are lower than the Seamless CRS rates, alerts are used to highlight those dates.
 
 
 
Low Rates by Hotel Site
Rate Changes by Hotel Site
  
 
 
4. The Low Rates by Hotel details each hotel and shows the low rate from each website for that hotel. Alerts are used to highlight dates when the rate is equal to the 'Lowest Website' rate for the subject date. Alerts are also used when dates have Internet rates available but Seamless CRS rates are not available.
  
 
Low Rates by Hotel
 
The iTIMS Online program enables subscribers to generate 'live' Reports for their competitive set anytime of the day or night from both the 'travel' and 'hotel-brand' websites. The competitive set and the web set are pre-programmed. The subscriber chooses the start date, the number of nights (up to 10) and the length-of-stay for each Online Report. If more dates are needed, they can simply run another Report for a new set of dates. Subscribers can also isolate websites or competitors to quickly focus on specific needs (or areas). Best of all, the iTIMS Online Report can be saved and archived as Excel spreadsheets.