Connecticut, Maryland, Ohio, and Tennessee are pushing bills broad enough to regulate how your hotel sets rates tonight... and the penalties in some of these states make your annual RMS subscription look like a rounding error.
Four states are pushing legislation that could require your revenue management system to explain itself, limit how often it changes rates, or make you liable when the algorithm gets it wrong. Tennessee's bill is already law.
The UK government is investigating whether Hilton, IHG, Marriott, and CoStar used STR benchmarking data to coordinate hotel pricing. If you've ever pulled a comp set report, this one's about you.
