distribution

Hotelbeds ramped up its support of hoteliers over their concerns about managing online rate parity and the so-called leakage of non-contracted rooms.

Inventory management is an umbrella concept that involves understanding, overseeing and controlling your hotel’s room inventory. Here are some strategy basics:

While a great strategy can take considerable time and effort, metasearch is the most powerful online acquisition tool you have at your disposal. It’s time to start making the most of its potential.

After all the hand-wringing hotel executives did when Airbnb first hit the marketplace, I think it’s time to stop worrying. We need to embrace it for what it is: It’s not a disruptor. It’s an augmenter.

Recently, Kayak and Trivago have enhanced their user experiences in an effort to provide more relevant information to users on their booking journeys

A successful metasearch bidding strategy is far from one-size-fits-all. Adapting to macro behavioral trends as they emerge is essential for any enterprising hotel.

Here are a few practical ways through which you can optimize your wholesale distribution strategy and ensure better control on the distribution as well as the pricing:

Hoteliers must update their distribution strategy to fill the literal void that an empty hotel room creates. Here are two ways to fill your empty rooms and increase occupancy and RevPAR.

This step involves identifying each channel’s COPE ADR during the peak occupancy months to better understand the optimal channel mix for increased profitability.

Metasearch is not a new concept. In fact, the concept and implementation of metasearch dates back to the mid-nineties with websites/engines such as SearchSavvy, MetaCrawler, and Hotbot