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Already Expedia has said that it will lay off 3,000 employees, and even after securing $4 billion from bonds, Booking’s Glenn Fogel has told employees to expect layoffs in the coming months

There’s no getting away from it – if you mention the acronym ‘OTA’ to most hoteliers, they’ll either wince, roll their eyes or suggest the conversation heads elsewhere. NB: This […]

In addition to pure profitability, there are other advantages to having active Ads campaigns, probably unknown to many, and perhaps important to some hotels

OTAs are still active and changing their paid media strategies as the COVID-19 crisis develops, taking huge advantage of the shopping from home consumers – and you should be too

While we wait for the world to slowly shift to a new “normal”, here are a few predictions and how OTAs and other third-parties can anticipate them in the most beneficial way

Early March we wrote about the first impacts of COVID-19 on OTA vs Website bookings. What an unpredicted turn things have taken since then. We expected things to be bad, but this bad?

Years into an ongoing tug-of-war over direct bookings, it’s fair to say that OTAs still stir up a lot of angst within the hotel marketing community

Google is back at it, adding another vital feature to results in its Hotel Ads product to help users decide where to book: pictures of the rooms

Here are the four steps you can take to optimize your hotel’s OTA profiles to improve your ranking, land more bookings – and make more money for your hotel

While some segments can evaporate in hours, your direct online segment is much more stable. If your share of direct business is below 10% of your bookings, you can be seriously harmed