Hotel is one of the most important research and application area of revenue management , and the goal of hotel revenue management is to achieve maximum room revenue through the better management of the room rates for different segments of customers. In this paper , the concept of hotel revenue management is discussed , and the ap2 plication characters of hotel revenue management are introduced in six aspects , then its common research methods are summarized and analyzed. Based on the research overviewof hotel revenue management , including demand fore2 casting , overbooking , room allocation control and pricing , the prospects of hotel revenue management are presented