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OTAs, new entrants dominate talk of hotel distribution

This roundup of content features articles focused on the changing distribution landscape and its effect on the hotel industry in the last six months. REPORT FROM THE U.S.—The world of hotel distributi... read more

HOTELS Interview: How online booking’s evolution affects hotels

However, it’s still too soon to predict exactly which players will dominate ... OTAs react? Cindy Estis Green: I think the “metamediaries,” which is shorthard for saying they are metasearch and interm... read more

The Disappointing Life of Hotel Industry Booking Site Room Key

The OTAs ... new third-party distribution channel. Humphry recalled having a conversation with marketing executives from Marriott, IHG, and other hotel brands about starting an online travel agency ag... read more

Airline disruption: it will happen in the next decade - but no one is preparing for it

At CAPA’s recent Americas Aviation Summit Paul Pessutti, SVP and GM, Travel and Transportation, SAP, outlined this potential for airline disruption in the distribution and marketing areas as new ... t... read more

The Priceline Group: Online Travel Industry Leader With 20% Upside

Through a series of strategic acquisitions, the Priceline Group transformed from a hotel-booking ... will deter new entrants from challenging PCLN's dominant position. Therefore, we will focus on exis... read more

Are Global Distribution Systems the missing link in tours & activities?

The reality is that travel distribution is extremely consolidated. There are three primary GDSs, two dominant OTAs (Expedia & Priceline) and the airlines. The hotel industry offers ... and it is very ... read more

Integrating e-commerce into a hotel’s overall business strategy

OTAs still are a dominant force in the marketplace ... What I’d like to see in travel are entrants that solve a new challenge – a challenge like selling Sunday night hotel rooms. The players we have t... read more

50 years backward and forward?

During the early years of the 1950s and 1960s, the dominant ... In the 1970s, a new ideological order was adopted. Shifting from economic to political and social priorities, socialism was introduced w... read more

Views on direct booking, OTAs vary from brand to brand

REPORT FROM THE U.S.—The collective push by the hotel industry in recent years to get guests to book direct could intensify as new entrants add pressure and competition to the distribution landscape . ... read more

How SaaS Startup RateGain Is Working Towards Becoming The Bloomberg For Travel

When Bhanu Chopra, founder of SaaS startup RateGain ... than hotels in travel (tour operators, car rental companies, and OTAs). So, for that segment of our business, our big ambition is to become the ... read more

Travel Tech CEO Series: DerbySoft Prepares for a Hotel Distribution Free-for-All

It needs a different mindset for its new ... distribution? Zhang: Nobody should dominate the partnership and force another side to do something they don’t want to do. That said, OTAs provide huge valu... read more

Tripping Over TripAdvisor: Demystifying 'Disruptive Technology' In Online Travel

The hotel segment has been subject to competition in the form of new technological entrants either ... between TRIP and OTAs such as PCLN (and to a greater extent EXPE). With the expectation of fierce ... read more