Part 7 of 8

Part VII — The Pricing Architecture

Price is the loudest signal a destination sends. Most destinations send the wrong one for the wrong reason.

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Price is editorial. It tells the guest who the place is for before they walk through the door. A price that flinches signals a thesis that flinches.

Discounting is the fastest way to inform the market that you do not believe your own sentence.

Hold the price. Hold the line. The guests you lose at the door are not the guests the thesis was written for.

A destination is judged not by its opening night but by its tenth anniversary. Build for the anniversary.