Agentic AI shows great promise, but is it ready to become a real channel for booking hotels? Privacy, payments, complexity and trust are key challenges it must overcome to become a viable distribution channel....
Find out moreNone of the main meta search sites or metasearch engines, among which we include Trivago, TripAdvisor, Google and Kayak have fully convinced hotels, especially independent ones, to “connect” their direct sales. This is somewhat paradoxical because it would be a highly positive relationship for both parties Hotels would reduce their dependence on OTAs and would…
Have you received a call from your bank to ask if your hotel meets the PCI-DSS security standard? If so, you’ll already know what this is about, although maybe not so much on how to do it. If you haven’t received the call, you will receive it shortly. This article will be of interest to…
Google is becoming a relevant player in the online hotels sector, something which makes the big existing players like Booking.com or TripAdvisor uncomfortable. However, Google’s strategy is different to the one of its competitors. It’s not becoming an OTA per se (such as Booking.com or, as it appears, TripAdvisor) and neither is it creating a…
The new cost-per-acquisition programme by Google Hotel Ads is now available to Mirai clients. Here is what this big change is all about…
Many hotels do the right thing by offering better stock and price conditions to Booking.com, and of course to their own website, rather than to Expedia after seeing that they make more money that way, since the net price (after taking out the commissions) is almost always superior. However, rarely are these same decisions made…
