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OTAScanner Goes Live for Hoteliers Looking to Optimize Revenue

2018-10-03 by Phil Butler

OTAScanner

Greek digital marketing company AboutHotelier has just launched a new hotel rate shopping and intelligence platform called OTAScanner. According to the news from the agency, the tool helps hoteliers scrutinize their revenue management strategies for optimized profitability.

Tags: AboutHotelier, Giannis Koutsopoulos, hotel technology, OTA Insight, OTA's, OTAScanner, rate parity

Big OTAs and Big Hotels in Price Fixing Lawsuit

2012-08-22 by Phil Butler

Class action versus OTAs

A federal lawsuit naming the likes of Expedia, Orbitz, Booking.com, Travelocity, Trump International Hotels Management, Intercontinental, Kimpton, Sabre Holdings, Priceline, Marriott, Starwood, and Hilton alleges the companies conspired to fix hotel room prices. According to the news from Reuters, the suit claims the travel giants did so in an effort to fend off competition from smaller online retailers.

Tags: Booking.com, buuteeq, Expedia, FairSearch, Global Hotel Exhange, Google, Google Travel, Hilton, hotels, InterContinental, ITA, Kimpton, Marriott, online travel, Orbitz, OTA's, price fixing, Priceline, rate parity, room prices, Sabre holdings, Starwood, Travelocity, treovi, Trump International Hotels Management

Selling Soap, Seats, & Other Hospitality Services In 2012

2011-12-28 by Phil Butler

Online travel

An article on Tnooz last Friday peaked our interest, Xotels boss Patrick Landman offering up key variables in what will become the biggest online trade war ever. When Google, all the big corporate OTAs, and key independent online travel entities lock horns for a final round, a few will not be left standing.

Tags: airlines, American Airlines, Bookings, Delta, Expedia, GDS, GHX, Global Hotel Exchange, Google, Google Flight Search, Google hotel finder, hotel bookings, hotel finder, hotels, Magnuson, Magnuson Hotels, Orbitz, OTA, rate parity, rooms, Sabre, seats, Tom Magnuson

US Travel Market Growth Predicted to Stall Next Year

2011-11-19 by Aleksandr Shatskih

US travel industry

Travel markets in the US have shown a marked improvement this year and are set to recover all the ground lost during the recession which began back in 2007, yet we shouldn’t get too excited as this growth is about to hit a brick wall, reports Travel Weekly.

Tags: Douglas Quinby, EU economics, Fiona Jeffery, hotels, online leisure/unmanaged business travel, OTA, OTA's, PhoCusWright report, rate parity, sustainable travel, Tom Magnuson, travel market growth, US online travel market, US travel, US travel industry, US travel market, WTM

Rate Parity – Apples When You Need Oranges

2011-11-05 by Phil Butler

Three card monte and hotel prices

The definitions of hotel room rate parity vary depending on who is doing the defining. The big online booking platforms speak of consistency and fairness, hotels often simply “have to” maintain parity to play in the game, and so on. But, is consistency at the expense of value and clarity worth then high price? These […]

Tags: Charleston hotels, Expedia, hotel rates, hotels, Jean Francois Mourier, JHM Hotels, Patriots Point, rate integrity, rate parity, REVPAR GURU, The Meeting Street Inn

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