Attractions and Museums
Our Intelligent Pricing solutions help amusement parks, museums, and zoos optimize their revenues and profits.
Pricing Challenges And Goals For Attractions
Attractions, like amusement parks, museums, and zoos, are increasingly facing pressure from shifting spending behavior and new entertainment offerings in the market. The correct Pricing Strategy ensures better customer communication and increases revenues.
Challenges for the Attraction Industry
How many will come each day?
There are hundreds of factors that influence the number of visitors each day. E.G. date and time, weather, promotions, etc. Predicting the daily demand is key for optimizing daily operations.
High demand vs. low demand days
Holidays and weekends attract more visitors than mid-week. Attractive and dynamic prices shift demand to less visited days and increase revenue on peak-days.
Price changes may alienate visitors
A change of set prices needs careful customer communication to avoid visitor disappointment and bad press. Finding the right communication strategy can be difficult.
Machine Learning-driven demand prediction
Dynamic prices follow the demand to increase revenues
Pricing Goals for the Attraction Industry
Drive Revenues
Utilize the price insensitivity of spontaneous and solvent customers for high-visited days to increase overall revenue.
Increase visits at less visited days
Offer attractive prices at less visited days to shift demand and reduce the impact of fixed costs at those times.
Incentivize online sales
Increase online sales through special discounts to collect more customer behavior information and get better planing security while saving money.
How We Can Help You Achieve Your Goals
To achieve the strategic goals of our clients we usually follow three steps:
1
Understand status quo
- Analysis of visitor structure and current price strategy (ticket types, seasons, etc.)
- Defining the strategic goals for a new pricing model
- Discover the main drivers for demand and attendance (weather, holidays, etc.)
2
Analysis of historical & current ticketing data
- Analyze the share of pre-sold tickets throughout the season
- Develop and test interfaces to ensure ease of use for online and box-office customers
- Share best practices for online and offline price communication
3
Real-time pricing software for daily optimization
- Demand forecast based on prediction tool with machine learning algorithms
- Daily price optimization for tickets based on our software
- Connection of our softare with your ticketing system for seamless operation
Typical Results for the Attraction Industry
+5% - 10%
Increase in attendance during less visited days
+5% - 15%
Increase in overall revenue
+5 - 10%
Increase in share of online sales
What Our Clients Say
“The optimization of our pricing strategy has completely convinced us. We decided to launch Dynamic Pricing with Smart Pricer to match each show to our strategic goals. ”
Maja Donath
”Smart Pricer developed a model that allows us to determine the willingness to pay for individual customer segments. By tailoring our prices accordingly, we increased our revenue by more than 20%.”
Robert Koch
”The Smart Pricer team supported us to introduce a flexible ticket pricing structure that helped us massively increase online sales, better distribute visitor attendance, and streamline our customer management.”
Stephanie Schaub
”Together with Smart Pricer, we developed a social pricing strategy that focuses on children, families and school-groups through attractive prices and ticket offers while at the same time securing our ticket revenues.”
Marena Grotheer
Our Case Study
Discover how we introduce dynamic pricing with our clients.
Classictic Case Study
In this case study we explain the approach used by us to determine Classictic customer’s willingness to pay by using A/B testing.
- 100k€ increased revenue for tested venues
- 200k€ total annual revenue increase potential
The case study shows the used approach in details and presents the final recommendations for Classictic based on the A/B testing results.
Chocoversum Case Study
In this Case Study, we describe how we tackled the challenges at the Chocoversum Museum in Hamburg by implementing a variable pricing strategy that satisfies both price- and time-sensitive guests.
FAQ – Answers to Your Questions
Why is dynamic pricing suitable for attractions?
The combination of fixed capacity and variable demand creates the perfect conditions for dynamic pricing. As price sensitivity for each day fluctuates, depending on date, weather and several other factors, dynamic pricing can be used to increase attendance at low demand days as well as slightly lift ticket prices for days with high demand.
What specific goals can be reached with dynamic pricing?
Real-time dynamic pricing enables attractions to achieve strategic goals such as:
- Drive ticket revenues
- Increase visitor attendance at low demand days
- Lift online shares and collect customer data
- Secure earlier cash in by enticing earlier bookings
What are the benefits of dynamic pricing for visitors?
By booking early and/or attending low demand days, spectators are rewarded with more attractive prices.
How to communicate dynamic pricing in the attraction industry?
- Communication is key for a successful introduction of dynamic pricing. It is crucial to get visitors on board by communicating clearly and transparently what the dynamic pricing switch involves and how it can benefit spectators
- We propose to communicate how fans can get the best prices e.g. “Buy early, buy smart”.
- We also encourage advertising using “from prices” or taking down the price lists from the website to maximize flexibility
- We help you with both online and offline communication with customers based on our world-wide experience
What are the expenses for implementing dynamic pricing?
The costs vary based on the amount of dynamically priced tickets. However, revenue uplifts achieved with dynamic pricing are typically 5x – 10x higher than the cost of implementation.
Will our prices increase as a result of dynamic pricing?
The choice is yours. Dynamic pricing works “up” and “down”
We recommend a dynamization around the current price level: for days with high demand, an increase in prices to skim willingness to pay. For days with low demand, a decrease in prices to stimulate demand.
We recommend a dynamization around the current price level: for days with high demand, an increase in prices to skim willingness to pay. For days with low demand, a decrease in prices to stimulate demand.
Upcoming Conferences And Events
Find us and come say hello at these industry events, fairs, and conferences:
ITB
March 06-10, 2019
Berlin, Germany
As the leading trade fair for the global travel industry, ITB Berlin is the leading business platform for global tourism.
360° entertainment
April 02-03, 2019
Interlaken, Switzerland
360 ° ENTERTAINMENT is aimed at the who’s who of the entertainment industry. The congress brings together sponsors, organizers, media, venue operators and service providers of all kinds.
the great escape
May 09-10, 2019
Brighton, UK
The Great Escape is the festival for new music, showcasing 500 emerging artists from all over the world in 30+ walkable venues across the city plus a festival site on Brighton Beach.
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