PROBLEM: In 1998 I was thinking about a common problem of hotels and touroperators. Their allotment control was a mess. Everybody was overbooking the allotments of the touroperators up to 400%. Stop-sales were issued more than ever. So, I started thinking…

ANSWER: Why not create a central independent repository for the hotel allotment. Steer the beds between bedbanks, touroperators and own sales online and offline. Aply FIFO, allotments or priority rules. Use an automated yield management tool for making the best price without spending the full day calculating.