Programming for Hotel Revenue Management

Hi everyone.

I must ask you a question. I’ve recently started a job in revenue management for a hotel and doing the daily tasks I’ve seen how repetitive and boring these processes have became. I’ve start looking for shortcuts and discovered that there are some possibilities to automate these processes ( e.g. taking data from websites and adding it to excel sheets etc).

I have found that Python and R could be powerful tools to achieve the automation process. The only big,fat problem is that, I’ve never put a finger on coding.

-From your expertise of programming, what do you recommend me to start doing? Is there any other programming system that could help automate my daily tasks?

-What is a good place to start with basics of programming?

-How long it took you to learn and use python? After what period of time you got your desired results?

P.S. I keep to mention I am using excel for reports along with VBA.

Thank you guys for taking the time to read and answer my inquiry. ❤️