Cendyn/ONE’s recent Hotel Supplier Website Benchmark report looks at the evolution of traffic and bookings by device.
Hospitality industry pricing: Where is it heading?
Online travel agents, data related issues and a skills shortage of revenue managers are all impacting pricing strategies in the hotel industry.
Priceline.com rolls out fresh strategy, user experience
The travel company overhauls user experience; doubles properties available to book; builds faster, easier to use, cross-platform product.
How will OTAs evolve in 2016?
Are Priceline and Expedia too big to fail or will they be challenged by Tripadvisor and Google gradually becoming online travel agencies? Or is Airbnb the biggest threat to OTA domination?
The OTA duopoly: Priceline vs Expedia
The OTA duopoly means that hotels must realign their online strategies and tactics to make sure they make the most of their owned media before relying too much on external sources.
The power of ‘I don’t know’
Whereas an ‘I don’t know’ opens the doors to a constructive, back-and-forth conversation, an ‘I have all the answers’ approach prevents an even better resolution from surfacing.
How hotels can leverage working with Expedia: an interview with Expedia’s David Hamblin
Are you getting the most out of your OTA channels? Expedia’s David Hamblin sheds light on how to best leverage using Expedia as a distribution channel.
Acomodeo: The first global booking engine for serviced apartments
Acomodeo is launching an independent booking platform to pool global inventory from more than 100,000 serviced apartments in 106 countries and make it searchable as well as directly bookable.
ebooking.com’s RateCalendar allows hotel bookings up to 500 days from search date
New RateCalendar service is a visual, fast way to compare and choose a hotel that best suits user’s requirements, within a period of year or more, while still allowing a subsequent cancellation without charges at most of its hotels.
OTAs dominate hotels in travel app usage
The dominance of OTAs, combined with the lack of branded hotel apps, demonstrate how iPhone owners wanting to book travel experiences are putting OTAs in a position of power on the mobile device.
