Fairness in Participative Pricing: A New Way of Pricing in Hospitality Sector

Atanu Adhikari ()
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Atanu Adhikari: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

No 216, Working papers from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Abstract: While conventional pricing strategy involves sellers to decide price of a hospitality product, hospitality service providing companies carry the risk of capacity underutilization in many occasions when fixed costs are already incurred. Pay What You Think Fair (PWYTF) pricing mechanism motivates tourists to pay a fair price for unutilized capacity, thereby, increasing sales and profit for marketers. This study shows that PWYTF pricing mechanism with a concrete reference price of customer can generate significantly higher revenue and profit for a long period of time. We have conducted three experiments to show that PWYTF pricing strategy is a profitable and sustainable pricing solution for hospitality service providing companies to increase revenue during off-season as well as underutilization of hired capacity. This study opens a new avenue in pricing methods used in hospitality industry and contribute in significant way both in academic and practice.

Keywords: Pay What You Think Fair; Willingness to buy; Willingness to pay; Participative pricing; Reference price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2016-12
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