Luxury Property Chooses Rainmaker’s Industry-Leading Revenue Optimization Suite
ALPHARETTA, GA. — October 9, 2018 — The Rainmaker Group (Rainmaker), a leading provider of cloud-based hospitality revenue management software, today announced that Okada Manila has selected a comprehensive solution suite, including guestrev®, grouprev®, revcaster® and revintel®, to optimize hotel revenue and drive competitive advantage at the 993-room world-class luxury property. The agreement marks Rainmaker’s expansion in the Asia-Pacific hospitality market.
Okada Manila, the largest casino resort in the Philippines, is a popular destination for entertainment seeking, leisure and business travelers. The hotel’s management team wanted an integrated cloud-based revenue management suite that would streamline operations, enhance revenue optimization processes, improve lead performance, and drive guest bookings. After a lengthy review process, they selected the Rainmaker solutions, citing factors such as features, functionality, and ease of implementation.
“The Rainmaker revenue management suite meets our requirement for a comprehensive cloud-based solution that’s both powerful and easy to use,” said Julius Santos, Director of Sales and Marketing at Okada Manila. “Revenue optimization technology is critical to success in today’s hotel market, and Rainmaker’s suite will help us improve pricing decisions, drive conversion rates, and maximize group business potential. The solutions are also easy for staff to understand and use, with a minimal learning curve. We are excited to implement the suite and start reaping the benefits of more efficient operations and increased profitability.”
Okada Manila has selected the following revenue management software solutions from Rainmaker:
- guestrev, an intuitive and easy-to-use revenue management application that analyzes total guest value across a hotel or casino property to forecast and price rooms;
- grouprev, an innovative group pricing solution that streamlines the process of responding to group RFPs by analyzing historical data, future demand, and price sensitivity to recommend the best pricing for group business;
- revcaster, a powerful rate shopping tool that gives hoteliers access to real-time actionable market data, so that rates can be set against the competitive landscape; and
- revintel, an intuitive business intelligence solution that improves day-to-day revenue management by mining various data sets and providing deep insights at a granular level.
“Hotels, casinos and other hospitality venues that want to achieve a competitive advantage must employ state-of-the-art revenue management technology,” said Mike Cowles, CEO of The Rainmaker Group. “Our portfolio of revenue optimization and analytic solutions will help Okada Manila distill the most complex data from numerous sources and turn it into actionable insights, resulting in increased guest bookings and profitability. We are thrilled to deliver our comprehensive revenue management suite to this world-class property and to expand our footprint in the Asia-Pacific hospitality market.”
Located in the heart of Manila’s Entertainment City gaming strip, Okada Manila is the largest casino resort in the Philippines and the newest gaming and entertainment destination in Asia. The $2.4 billion development includes 993 luxury guest rooms and suites, more than 20 dining options, a collection of exclusive retail shops, a 90,000-square-foot indoor beach club, and a 284,000-square-foot casino. The centerpiece of the property is a large multicolor dancing fountain spanning more than 400,000 square feet and costing more than $30 million. Okada Manila is the flagship development of Tiger Resort, Leisure and Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of Japan’s Universal Entertainment Corporation.
