The global hotel industry’s leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, today reveals it powered more than US$10.8 billion in revenue for its hotel customers over the 12 months ending 30 June 2015. […]

Airlines can unlock a new source of revenue with personalized ancillary sales that will please travelers instead of leaving them indifferent. Perfect offerings that will increase profits are waiting for […]

By now, the importance of revenue management is clear to most hoteliers around the world. With new intermediaries emerging and customer acquisition costs rising on a seemingly daily basis, effectively […]

Marriott International is calling its new direct booking campaign just another “common practice” aimed at creating awareness of its website for travelers who choose to make their own hotel reservations. […]

Hotels are already feeling the effects of Airbnb’s approach to room rentals, but continued growth could force the hotels to lower room prices. By the end of 2016, Merrill Lynch […]

Marriott has angered a major travel agency group with its latest advertising campaign to encourage travellers to bypass intermediaries. The campaign was launched earlier this week under the title #ItPaysToBookDirect […]

A new law creates carte blanche on room prices but a big legal “grey area” and mounting conflicts between hotels and OTAs. Some have declared it the equivalent of the […]

SUMMARY: “It felt like we had the opportunity to really do something that was much more really member-centric and really use all the data that we’ve got on our members […]

Figures from Expedia show an increase in the number of overseas visitors searching for hotel stays in the UK. The shopping data from May 2015 shows browsing figures from USA […]

Revenue per available room (RevPAR) has increased marginally for hotels across the UK in the second quarter of 2015, but has slowdown when compared with last year. This is according […]