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Revenue management and pricing have never been so important as a tool and strategy for predominately hotel and airline businesses since COVID-19. As a journal, some of the best researches examining the impact of COVID-19 on these sectors are discussed in this issue, along with how systems and process have changed.

Demand forecasting is one of the fundamental components of a successful revenue management system. van Leeuwen and Koole (2021) provides a new model, which is inspired by cubic smoothing splines, resulting in smooth demand curves per rate class over time until the check-in date. Piga et al.(2021) investigate hoteliers’ short-term recovery strategies during the pandemic. Stemming from management crisis theory and the resource-based view of the firm, this article focuses on two environments differently hit by COVID-19, ie, London and Munich. Dalalah et al.(2021) seek to find the …