Tony Talks Business
How All-Inclusive Resorts Make Money
You are chest deep in a pool holding a cocktail you did not pay for, and the thought arrives. Are they losing money on you?
A buffet runs the identical bet. Buffets are dying and all-inclusives are having their best years ever. So what is the difference?
Chapters
- 0:00They are losing money on me
- 1:56The maths: the low users subsidise the high users
- 4:41A resort knows everything about you before you pack
- 6:05The bar: the house pour
- 8:17A buffet has a door. A resort does not
- 10:49Everything that is not included
- 13:03Money you paid in February does not feel like money
- 14:38Why nobody comes home feeling robbed
- 15:35The weakness: everything has to stay on
- 16:56Tents on a beach in 1950 to $2.7 billion
- 18:20So which is it
