Why join the course?
How do airlines, hotels, resorts and other organisations manage their prices? Why are these prices apparently unrelated to costs and different for each consumer? And what is the underlying logic and strategy behind these prices?
Open the black box of pricing strategy and revenue management
This free online course will open the black box of revenue management – the widespread pricing strategy that the travel, leisure and other industries use to generate additional revenue, by setting prices according to people’s preferences and willingness to pay.
You will explore the methods at the core of many revenue management systems, discovering the answers to questions such as:
- Do all customers have the same sensitivity to price?
- How can a firm use its knowledge on demand, to charge different people different prices for the same product?
- Why do the prices vary over time?
- How can a firm slightly differentiate its product in order to charge widely different prices to different people?
- How can you define the right set of prices to increase the firm’s profit?
- What is the outcome for the individual consumer? And for consumers as a whole?
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Step into a pricer’s shoes and set your own pricing strategy
Throughout the course you will practice what you learn through practical pricing problems, pricing simulation games and interactive case studies. For example, you will step into the shoes of a pricer and set an airline’s pricing strategy over a period of time.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of pricing strategies;
- Compare and evaluate different pricing schemes in different sectors of industry;
- Design a pricing framework in a real-life revenue optimisation situation;
- Implement revenue management in your business, and experiment with price setting and capacity allocation.
Learn with revenue management specialists from aviation and other industries
The course has been developed by ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile) – a university specialising in the economics and strategy of the aviation industry, where revenue management originated.
Throughout, ENAC educators will also be joined by experts from other sectors that are successfully using revenue management techniques, giving you a variety of perspective and experiences.
What topics will you cover?
- Basic economic concepts : supply and demand, consumer welfare, demand elasticity
- Economic foundations of Price discrimination
- The three types of price discrimination and product differentiation
- Pricing under uncertainty
- EMSR (Expected Marginal Seat Revenue)
- Risk analysis, overbooking
- Dynamic pricing strategies in various competitive environments
- History of revenue management
- Features of revenue management techniques Strategic decisions in revenue management Implementation of revenue management techniques in various businesses
When would you like to start?
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Available now
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12 March 2018
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Date to be announced
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to…
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for professionals and students who want to learn more about pricing strategy and revenue management techniques. You could be working (or preparing to work) in an industry where these practices are already common – such as a travel, rental, hospitality or leisure business – or in a sector where they are emerging – such as at a mobile app developer or an e-commerce retailer.
The course is open to anyone, so may also interest consumers who are keen to understand why prices vary and how revenue management – which gives discounts to many and high prices to a few – works in many areas of their everyday life.