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As a revenue manager, getting your room prices right is arguably your biggest priority. And while you may be aware that there’s a science to it, you’re time-poor as it […]

Online travel agents offer a convenient revenue stream but, as hotels are discovering, at a cost – that guests are ignoring direct bookings in favour of the hotel that appears […]

The business of hotels has always been of selling rooms. Some of us might still remember a time hotel rooms had to be reserved through a travel agency, by phone […]

The marriage of convenience between hotels and online travel agencies gets rockier whenever one of the partners goes too far to gain the upper hand. Expedia’s recent changes to its […]

We are used to Booking.com’s inventory appearing re-distributed in endless places. The surprising thing is when we come across the opposite finding which, up until now, has gone unnoticed in […]

I know we all hear the battle cries every day in our industry, but what’s really going on with hotel brands, franchisers, the online travel agents and their war over […]

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has taken online travel agents (OTAs) to task in the past week over how hotel rooms are displayed to customers, according to BBC News. […]

Booking.com no longer wants to control the pricing strategies of small to medium hotels but why? Booking Holdings, formerly the Priceline Group, is not alone looking to expand its net […]

Hotel booking sites must review the way they rank and display rooms, the UK’s competition watchdog has said. Some sites may be making misleading claims about discounts, the Competition and […]

If booking direct is so attractive and several hotels are joining the movement, is it universally attractive? Would every single hotel benefit from a book direct campaign? NB: This is […]