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The Hotelier’s Guide to Profitable Direct Booking and OTA Management

Hospitality Net

Balancing distribution channels between Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) and direct bookings is essential for maximizing revenue and maintaining control over the guest experience. While OTAs can drive significant traffic and bookings, relying too heavily on them can lead to increased distribution costs and diminished profit margins.

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6 ways to increase your property’s ranking in OTA searches

Hospitality Net

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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Case Study: Breaking Free from OTAs with Paid Search

Hospitality Net

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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Cloudbeds Reveals Highest Revenue-Generating OTAs for Independent Properties

Hospitality Net

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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Travel Tech Startup Lighthouse Buys HQ Revenue in Talent Grab

Skift Blog

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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Cloudbeds: Booking.com top revenue-generating OTA for indies

Hotel Business

Hospitality management platform Cloudbeds has revealed rankings of the highest revenue-generating Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) worldwide, as well as by various countries and regions, with Booking.com coming out on top. The post Cloudbeds: Booking.com top revenue-generating OTA for indies appeared first on hotelbusiness.com.

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Cloudbeds Publishes Second Annual ’Big Book of OTAs’ Unveiling 2023 Trends in Online Travel Agencies Along with a Directory of 90+ OTA channels

Hospitality Net

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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