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Disruptors in the global hotel industry – everything from home-sharing sites like Airbnb, Tujia, HomeAway, BnB Hero and Roomorama, to OTAs and other new sets of investors, have been rapidly […]

Like London buses you wait for news updates about mobile personalised in-destination apps and then two come along at once. Booking.com Experiences extension to cover London came this week on […]

Expedia, Inc. is officially launching Rev+, a revenue management tool designed to provide hotel partners with smart, actionable data and insights. As part of Expedia Partner Central (EPC), the company’s […]

The positive impact of the OTAs on hotel industry performance, at least in terms of occupancy numbers, can’t be argued, but identifying exactly where that business is coming from and […]

Expedia has made two quite different but interesting moves in recent weeks, but what exactly do they mean? Direct, direct, direct is best is a well-worn mantra in the hotel […]

Hoteliers are holding out in the continued fight to lower OTA commission rates and bring more business in house, and representatives from both sides met during the first day of […]

Hotels and online travel booking companies tend to have a marriage of convenience – one that savvy travelers can exploit. When hotels are having trouble filling rooms, they will grudgingly […]

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 […]