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Does travel metasearch drive more direct bookings for airlines, hotels or car rental firms? Is it really an alternative platform to Google and the big bad OTAs? OTA versus meta: […]

NB: This is an article from SiteMinder Your distribution strategy, in many respects, is the key to your reservations success at your hotel. The more you distribute the rooms and […]

There’s your Bed & Breakfast. Then, the self-serviced accommodations down the road. There’s also that retrofitted factory-hotel in the east end. And you all have one thing in common. You’re vying […]

NB: This is an article from H2C Updating rates and availabilty across multiple channels via direct connects and channel managers has become commonplace throughout hospitality as well as the distribution […]

  Expedia is now very kindly allowing hotels to offer their normally closed user group member-only rates publicly on Expedia. Red Lion Hotel Group (RLHG), a brand that operates in […]

A recent Deutsche Bank Research Report published July 13, 2016, highlighted hotel owners’ creeping concerns. Something just isn’t quite right when it comes to the proliferation of loyalty rates. NB: […]

The two largest OTAs reported substantial growth last quarter in sales of the alternative accommodations they offer, Expedia via HomeAway and Priceline through listings on Booking.com, which analysts said are […]

The important takeaway of the research is that hoteliers need to be mindful of the cost implications of their distribution strategy. Clearly, the third-party distributors can provide access to markets […]

Expedia, Inc., is the first online travel intermediary to begin displaying a hotel chain’s discounted loyalty rates next to standard rates. It’s also the first to cheerlead for a hotel’s own […]

According to a recent ReviewPro webinar survey, 83% of hotels said they are focused on converting OTA users into direct bookers. Another poll during the event also found that 59% […]