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This is How Tripadvisor Net Commission Per Stay Model Works
This model is designed as a gateway to the Tripadvisor metasearch world, allowing the many hotels that are currently offline to try it risk-free.
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Distribution
Following the path of virtuosity in the marketing ecosystem, we must try to avoid temptation and stay away from the seven deadly sins of distribution
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All You Need to Know About Trivago’s New Free Booking Links
Just like Google, trivago has enabled free ads, which are ads that do not require a bid on the metasearch engine
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The Reasons Why Customers Use Booking.com (And So Do I)
Thanks Booking.com for great service. Or should I say, “thanks hotel for rolling out the red carpet to Booking.com so that they can roll it out for me?”
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OTA Visibility Boosters: The True Cost is More Than You Think
Having an analytical approach to visibility boosters is critical and will help you assign the incremental cost to the incremental revenue correctly
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Understanding the Value Proposition of Paid and Free Google Hotels
To understand how the contribution of Google Hotels (both paid and free) has evolved over time, we split our set of hotels in two
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Upcoming Challenges in Hotel Distribution That May Interest You
2023 is still quite uncertain. Analyze your current distribution and make sure it is agile. Enhance your direct channels and take control of your prices
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Growing Contribution of Metasearch to Direct Revenue
Any source of traffic that generates 13% of total direct revenue is a must in your online marketing mix, and that’s what metasearch is today
![broken piggy bank reflecting hotels need to evaluate their metasearch budgets as a response to google removing cpa bidding](https://revenue-hub.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/losing-revenue-1.77.jpg)
How Much Are You Losing By Not Controlling Your Hotel Price
How much are you losing by not controlling your prices and allowing other channels to sell cheaper than you do on your own website?
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A Handbook on Hotel Distribution in the 21st Century
We review some of the main channel partners, their role and the extent to which we should use each of them to best implement our distribution strategy