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Death of Priceline’s Name Your Own Price Is Drawing Near
Priceline.com ended its Name Your Own Price bidding service for car rentals Monday, as it did for flights in 2016. When Priceline.com debuted more than 20 years ago, it was […]
How Airbnb changes may transform online booking space
Airbnb is on a blitz as of late, announcing major product changes, wooing hotels, and drawing the battle lines against the OTAs all within the span of a few months. […]
4 Ways to Negate Effects of New OTA Accounting Standards
Effective January 1, 2018, several new accounting standards became mandatory for the hospitality industry in the U.S. The most important of these standards concerns revenue recognition, and more concretely how […]
Are Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) As Bad As We Think?
If you ask a hotel manager to compare an online travel agency to another life form, the response will generally not be flattering. Lianas in a tropical rainforest, for example. […]
Expedia and Priceline battle the digital duopoly
An older gentleman stands in front of a temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia, gazing up in wonder as sunlight glints off his white hair and wizened face. As he begins […]
Should Hoteliers be Concerned with Amazon Disrupting Online Travel?
A recent analysis of Amazon’s ability to disrupt online travel agencies by Morgan Stanley was in the news with a number of opinion articles on the subject being published. “Online […]
Overdependent on OTAs? You need to rethink your distribution mix
“It’s healthy that hotels have a distribution mix.” Those are the words of Booking.com’s Gillian Tans, speaking at ITB last week. You might not hear us say this too often, […]
Can Airbnb compete with the OTAs?
It’s becoming harder every day to differentiate between Airbnb and traditional online travel agencies. And now the agreement that allows Siteminder, a leading hotel distribution platform, to list hotel rooms […]
Travel sites push for easier air fare comparison, airlines oppose move
As airlines charge extra for baggage while adding more fee-based amenities like premium seating and in-flight wi-fi, it’s getting more difficult for travelers to compare the cost of a flight […]
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 […]