Lodging

APRIL 17, 2023

The media is doing our job for us right now. […] The post MCR’s Morse Urges Hotel Owners To Push Rate, Cut Out OTAs appeared first on LODGING Magazine. Morse, who is CEO of MCR—one of the largest owner/operators in the U.S. lodging industry—began by imploring hoteliers to push rate. You should raise your rates.

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Hospitality Net

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While online travel agencies and hotels are both in the business of marketing the same hotel rooms, OTAs don’t have to do all the things that hotels do - like clean the rooms.

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Hospitality Net

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Mews, the industry-leading hospitality cloud, has released a bespoke integration to Expedia Group that allows properties to connect the leading Online Travel Agencies (OTA) directly to Mews PMS.

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Lodging

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

DENVER, Colorado—OTA Insight has rebranded to Lighthouse. “Our capabilities and vision have outgrown the OTA Insight […] The post OTA Insight Rebrands to Lighthouse appeared first on LODGING Magazine. The rebrand consolidates multiple products and acquired companies into a single, unified commercial platform.

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Hospitality Net

JULY 2, 2024

A recent industry report claimed that there were distinct advantages of partnering with the OTAs:

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Skift Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Skift Take: With hotel brands making major strides in customer ownership, it is time to start anticipating when direct bookings will outpace third-party sites. Pranavi Agarwal and Seth Borko Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

A recent article in Platform Aeronaut titled ChatGPT Advanced Voice: The Future of Travel Booking or the End of OTAs? suggested that the latest reiteration of this genAI application would be the ultimate OTA killer.

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Hospitality Net

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Cloudbeds, the hospitality management platform powering more reservations and happier guests for independent lodging businesses around the globe, has today revealed rankings of the highest revenue-generating Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) worldwide, as well as by various countries and regions.

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Skift Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

Skift Take: India is a strong source market for business travel. To cater to this robust market, online travel companies in India are diversifying their offerings. Bulbul Dhawan Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Hotels face a constant challenge with the dominance of Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) taking share in every market. And then paying 18-23% of their net revenue back for the privilege of getting these bookings.

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Hospitality Net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Online travel agency (OTA) search rankings can often leave hotel revenue and channel managers perplexed. It’s not always apparent why one hotel is placed above another in the rankings. And to complicate things even more, the algorithms that determine the listings are always changing

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Skift Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Skift Take: There is a sea change taking place in how banks – and particularly how credit cards – interact with the travel industry. Watch what Skift Research has to say. Jason Clampet Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

MAY 24, 2023

OTA Insight, the global leader in cloud-based hospitality business intelligence, today announced the expansion of its business intelligence (BI) product suite with the launch of Spider in the Europe, Middle East and Africa markets.

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Skift Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Skift Take: After a history of false starts with Tellme, Alexa, and Siri, will ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode unlock the holy grail: booking a flight? Thomas Reiner Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Skift Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

Skift Take: The back-to-back IPOs of TBO Tek and Ixigo signify a robust resurgence in the travel industry, highlighting the market's optimism and the sector's readiness to capitalize on the post-pandemic recovery. The Indian travel tech landscape looks set for a dynamic phase of expansion and innovation.

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Lodging

APRIL 12, 2023

DALLAS, Texas, and DENVER, Colorado—HotelKey announced a partnership with OTA Insight to give hotels access to rate data and actionable insights to make effective pricing decisions. The strategic partnership introduces new API capabilities, including OTA Insight’s data API, drawing on a daily stream of two billion rate data points.

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Skift Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Skift Take: Direct bookings surge as travelers prefer supplier websites over OTAs. This means OTAs will need to innovate to stay competitive. Varsha Arora Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

OTA Insight, the global leader in cloud-based market intelligence for the travel & hospitality industry, has rebranded to Lighthouse. The rebrand consolidates multiple products and acquired companies into a single, unified commercial platform.

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Hospitality Net

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This means that, for the first time, hosts can take advantage of a far wider range of tech tools, which would normally only be available to those with a portfolio large enough to warrant a PMS subscription.

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Skift Blog

MARCH 27, 2024

Skift Take: The online travel landscape is poised for dynamic growth as local players strive to maintain their dominance and western OTAs take steps to tap into the opportunity. Saniya Zanpure Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Expedia has heavily invested in its ARM (Automatic Rate Match) tool to ensure it offers the best prices and wins bookings on its platform. With billion-dollar budgets and countless hours spent researching guest behavior, Expedia sets a clear example.

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Hospitality Net

AUGUST 2, 2023

Denver, CO – OTA Insight, the global leader in cloud-based hospitality business intelligence, today released a comprehensive analysis highlighting the influence of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour on hotel demand and pricing, both domestically and internationally.

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Hospitality Net

JUNE 12, 2023

In this week’s episode of the Hotel Moment podcast, Karen Stephens, Revinate’s CRO, speaks to Sunish Sadasivan, Vice President of E-Commerce & Revenue Management at Chroma Hospitality, as he shares the story of how their hotel reduced their reliance on OTAs for a period of time.

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Skift Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

Skift Take: Lighthouse, the travel startup formerly known as OTA Insight, has bought Berlin-based HQ revenue. The deal marks another step in Lighthouse's strategy of expanding through talent acquisition rather than merely accumulating customer lists. Sean O'Neill Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

AUGUST 28, 2024

At OTA Sync, we are excited to announce the launch of the OTA Edu program, a significant initiative through which we will be donating our hotel management software to secondary schools and higher education institutions.

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Hospitality Net

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

If you work in hospitality, you are aware that one of the main challenges for hotels relies on reducing their dependency from Online Travel Agencies (OTAs). OTAs are offering guests the best of both worlds: lots of information about properties, pricing comparisons and real guests reviews.

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Hospitality Net

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There’s a battle raging. And it’s raged for decades.

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Skift Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Skift Take: "The relationship between Google and the OTAs — it’s a symbiotic one. It’s a complex one. You could even say it’s a little bit abusive." " — Rashaad Jorden Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Skift Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Skift Take: Recipe for the most-loved OTA in Southeast Asia = Free flights for a year for as less as $250. Lip smacking, much? Peden Doma Bhutia Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

JULY 8, 2024

Join our upcoming webinar to dive deeper into the challenges of OTA undercutting and learn how Triptease’s Price Match tool can solve your rate parity issues for good. We’ll be sharing performance insights from a test group of hotels whose guests were 6X more likely to book when they saw auto-matched prices on the booking engine*.

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Skift Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

Meanwhile, Google, "an honest/transparent OTA," can do no wrong in Ryanair's eyes. Skift Take: Booking.com can argue that it doesn't used banned screen-scraping to access Ryanair flights. Dennis Schaal Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

DECEMBER 20, 2023

SAN DIEGO, December 20, 2023 — Cloudbeds, the hospitality management platform powering more reservations and happier guests for lodging businesses around the globe, today announced the release of its highly anticipated ’Big Book of OTAs: A Hotelier’s Guide to Top Distribution Channels’ for 2023.

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eHotelier

JULY 15, 2024

Balancing OTAs and direct bookings requires a strategic approach that leverages the strengths of both channels.

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Hospitality Net

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Hotelchamp announces the launch of their innovative Booking Engine—the fourth product in a suite of direct conversion tools designed to help hoteliers drive traffic, improve the experience on their websites and drive direct revenue.

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Hospitality Net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In this report, based on the wishes of both branded and independent hoteliers surveyed, Skift Research predicts that by 2030, direct digital channels will have overtaken the OTAs as the dominant distribution channel for hoteliers: $409 billion of hotel gross bookings are expected to come from direct digital channels, compared to just $333 billion from (..)

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Skift Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Hotels that leverage first-party data to drive AI strategies can win the race against OTAs for guest attention and loyalty. Skift Take: Rising competition in the hotel bookings landscape is pushing the industry towards the smarter use of technology. Cendyn Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Skift Blog

APRIL 26, 2024

On Thursday he announced AirAsia Move’s plans to be the biggest OTA in Southeast Asia and a day later, he’s talking about his ambition to position AirAsia as the largest low-cost airline group in Asia. Skift Take: Two days ago, Tony Fernandes announced that he’s putting retirement aside for the next five years.

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