Ski Resorts – Our Pricing Solutions

Our results are convincing For our ski resort customers in Austria and Switzerland, we have already analyzed more than 60 million tickets, generated more than EUR 10 million in extra sales for the mountain railways and shifted more than 4 million tickets from the cash desk to the web shop.

Pricing Challenges And Goals For Ski Resorts

The decreasing number of visitors in the recent years makes covering the increasing operational costs more difficult. Discover the daily demand for your ski resort and set up the right pricing strategy for mountain railways, parking, etc.

Challenges for Ski Resorts

Hard to predict demand for each day

There are hundreds of factors that influence the demand for ski resorts, such as date and time, weather, season, etc. Predicting the expected demand is key for revenue optimization.

High demand vs. low demand times

Weekends and holiday seasons attract more skiers than weekdays and off-season. Attractive and dynamic prices shift demand to off-times and increase revenue on peak-times
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Difficulties to communicate price changes

A change of the current pricing model needs careful customer communication to avoid visitor disappointment and bad press. Finding the right communication strategy can be difficult.
Dynamic pricing adjusts prices based on demand

Pricing Goals for Ski Resorts

Drive Revenues

Utilize the price insensitivity of spontaneous customers for high-demand skiing days to increase overall revenue.
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Increase visits at off-peak seasons

Offer attractive prices at off-peak seasons 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:

Typical Results For Ski Resorts

+5% - 15%

REVENUE UPLIFT

Increase your average ticket pricer

+ 5% - 15%

ATTENDANCE BOOST

Shift demand to off-peak times

+30% - 70%

ONLINE SHARE

Reward online bookings and utilize website data

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What Our Clients Say

“We are very happy with Smart Pricer‘s work and look forward to pushing our revenues and other KPIs to the next level.“

Jakob Falkner

CEO, Bergbahnen Sölden

“Smart Pricer offers a unique combination of price consulting, analytics and software. They helped us develop a dynamic pricing scheme and customized their software to manage the new scheme effectively.”

Markus Hasler

CEO, Zermatt Bergbahnen AG

“Dynamic pricing allows us greater flexibility and smoothing of demand. In addition, the reduction of sales at the cash registers in favor of increasing online sales leads to better and individual advice for guests.“

Valentin König

CEO, Aletsch Bahnen AG

FAQ – Answers to Your Questions

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What sorts of results can we expect from dynamic pricing with Smart Pricer?
  • With purposeful introduction, customers and employees are willing to accept the new pricing model
  • Total revenues generally increase by + 5–10% with additionally increased online shares
How big is the workload for us?
  • The introduction of dynamic pricing is usually feasible within a few weeks
  • The input of price chances can be done manually or automatically via interfaces with your ticketing system
Will our prices increase as a result of dynamic pricing?
  • The choice is yours. Dynamic pricing works both ways, “up” and “down”.
  • We recommend a dynamization around the current price level: on peak days a bit higher, and on weak days a bit lower.
How do we communicate dynamic pricing to our ski resort customers?
  • We recommend communication with “Price from…”, for example, “Tickets from 45 EUR”.
  • Your customers are already familiar with this concept from airlines, hotels, rental cars etc.

Our Resources

Discover how we introduce dynamic pricing in our webinar.

Webinar: Dynamic Pricing for Ski Resorts

In this webinar, jointly held by Grischconsulta and Smart Pricer, we review the background and motivation for Dynamic Pricing in Ski resorts..

 

  • Definition of the future pricing strategy
  • Analysis of historical booking data
  • Software implementation & transparent communication
Download Slides (in german)

Case Study: Implementing Dynamic Pricing at Zermatt Bergbahnen AG

In this Pricing Case Study, we describe the step-by-step implementation of our Dynamic Pricing solution for this Swiss ski lift. Given that, learn about the whole process of implementing Dynamic Pricing by downloading this Paper.

 

  • +6-8% increase in revenue per ticket
  • +5-40% increase in online sales
  • +36% increase in advance booking time
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