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Combat Airbnb Effect on your Hotel’s Bottom Line
Recently Airbnb announced the formation of a technology partnership with SiteMinder, a cloud-based channel management platform used by more than 28,000 hotels around the world. Now, hotels that use SiteMinder […]
Airbnb And Parity: What Hoteliers Need To Know
Airbnb are never far away from the headlines, but the homesharing giants have been outdoing themselves in 2018. Alongside a plethora of announcements made at the end of February, including […]
8 simple ways to increase your hotel’s direct bookings
Increasing direct bookings would be one of the most rewarding (but just as challenging) tasks for any hotelier. Given the vast market size and share of third party booking sites, […]
Will automated re-booking sites ruin my revenue management strategy?
It’s the start of the season. You’ve got a healthy base of early bookings, you’ve adjusted your rates to snare in some more, and you’re settling down for an early […]
What does Airbnb lack to revolutionise hotel distribution?
The media has carried out a widespread diffusion of the story that Airbnb is now offering hotels. The size of this giant company and its potential are well worth the […]
Earn more direct bookings for your hotel with transparency
On Monday morning, I decided that since I knew all about the high commissions that hotels are charged for bookings through online travel agents (OTAs), I would do the right […]
Headwinds for Big 3 OTAs: Expedia, Priceline and TripAdvisor
Wall Street prefers the term ‘headwinds’ to ‘problems’, and there are an awful lot of them in the travel stories coming out of brokers at the moment. The numbers show […]
Middle East hoteliers: Time is now to stand up to OTAs
As several markets in the Middle East tackle supply growth and stagnant average daily rate, sources said there is real concern that OTAs will take the bull by the horns […]
Is the era of the direct bookings coming to an end?
Recent years have seen a rise in the number of the online booking platforms. They’ve become increasingly popular, and as the intermediaries between hotels and their guests, seem to be […]
Hotel CEOs Reveal Strategies for Expedia, Google and Airbnb
What do hospitality executives think of the current hotel distribution landscape, and the emergence of Google Hotels and Airbnb? And would they ever consider walking away entirely from a particular online travel […]
