Customer story · Budapest
How data became a daily steering tool

Data into advantage.

A nine-month review: significant revenue growth — while Hotel Clark kept the highest RevPAR in its competitive set. András Lakézi, Managing Director at the time, on how data went from reporting to a daily steering tool.

András Lakézi · Managing Director at the time · Hotel Clark Budapest
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András Lakézi
Managing Director at the time · Hotel Clark Budapest

This interview was recorded in October 2025 with András Lakézi — at the time Managing Director of Hotel Clark Budapest and Operations Director of Unione Hotel Management, its operator — reviewing the year’s first nine months. His words appear unchanged, in the form he approved. Hotel Clark has run on Peaqplus for years — and still does today.

“Our goal was to stop merely reporting the data and start genuinely using it as a steering tool” — that is how he summed up why the hotel brought in Peaqplus. What followed reshaped the logic of the daily revenue meetings, too.

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The goal

A steering tool, not another report

The Clark team had always seen the numbers — the question was what they could do with them. The goal was not more reporting: it was booking, sales and demand data in one place, showing in real time where the house deviates from the expected.

The Clark was no beginner in pricing automation: the house runs IDeaS for revenue management. Peaqplus wasn’t chosen to replace it but to sit alongside it — as the layer that turns data into shared management decisions.

The difference is not in the visuals but in the logic. The question stops being “what happened” — and becomes “why, and what do we do about it now”.

We didn’t just see what was happening — we also saw why it was happening, and what steps we could take immediately. That way of thinking completely reshaped the logic of our daily revenue meetings.
András Lakézi · Managing Director at the time
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The result

What nine months showed: strategy instead of firefighting

The review showed up in the numbers — and, just as tellingly, the hotel grew while keeping the highest RevPAR in its competitive set. Not growth from a low base, but from the front of the market.

Demand forecasts and pickup patterns flag early when a period starts soft. So instead of last-minute campaign firefighting, the strategy is built in time: where to step into pricing — and where to hold back the discounts.

Over the past nine months we achieved 3.5% revenue growth, while our RevPAR is still the highest among our competitors.
András Lakézi · Managing Director at the time
The daily operation

One set of numbers, four teams

The system became the shared language of management, revenue, sales and marketing: everyone sees the same numbers and works from the same reading of them. A decision stops being a matter of viewpoint.

management · revenue · sales · marketing
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One shared set of numbers

Everyone sees the same data — the debate isn’t about whose number is right, but about what the next move is.

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Objective, traceable decisions

Decisions are measurable and auditable — behind every pricing move, the reason and the data that carried it.

03
Flagged intervention points

The surface doesn’t just report: it highlights where intervention is needed, so no one hunts for where to look.

04
Faster reaction

Less time assembling numbers, more time deciding — and a faster response to the market than before.

Everyone sees the same numbers and works from the same insights. Decisions are objective, measurable and traceable.
András Lakézi · Managing Director at the time
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The group

One platform, three houses

At the time of the interview, Lakézi was also Operations Director of Unione Hotel Management, the hotel’s operator — and Peaqplus didn’t stop at the Clark: today it runs in all three of the group’s houses, Leon Hotel Budapest and Melea The Health Concept Hotel included.

Three houses with very different profiles became comparable inside one platform — the same reports, the same logic, and the portfolio in a single view.

Unione Hotel Management
One decision surface
Hotel Clark Budapest
Leon Hotel Budapest
Melea The Health Concept Hotel
Advice to other hotels
There’s no point in waiting. The data is already there in every hotel — it just needs organizing.
András Lakézi · Managing Director at the time · Hotel Clark Budapest

His advice to hotels still weighing a BI system: the right system doesn’t complicate processes, it simplifies them — and the strength comes when decisions are backed by fact, not gut feeling.

About Peaqplus

Peaqplus is a Hungarian-built, AI-supported revenue platform for hotels. It brings booking, pricing and market data together on one clear management surface, and helps teams make faster, better-grounded decisions with forward-looking analytics. peaqplus.com

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