Price disparity, the eternal problem of hotel distribution
Price disparity is the main problem for many hotels and correcting this situation is essential in order to outline a correct direct-sales strategy.…
Price disparity is the main problem for many hotels and correcting this situation is essential in order to outline a correct direct-sales strategy.…
The Genius rewards programme is a brilliant move by Booking.com in its strategy to continue gaining market share in hotels by gobbling up other online channels as well as the hotel’s own direct channel, their website.…
Expedia has stated that the recent movement of large hotel chains offering the best direct price is detrimental to the hoteliers themselves. This is why Expedia is wrong.…
Book on Google has plenty of similarities with Instant Booking. However, there are considerable differences that allow us to conclude that Book on Google does not make Google an OTA, although, once again, with many nuances.…
Google has strongly burst onto the hotel-transaction scene via its Book on Google (BoG) interface, awakening plenty of curiosity and questions about the real interest Google has with this movement. At first, it presents many similarities in regards to the twist carried out by TripAdvisor with Instant Booking. However, at the same time, it's very…
What was just a concern a few years then became a problem and now it has become a nightmare. We are referring to booking cancellations, which have increasingly grown to unsustainable levels, in some cases above 40% and 50%. Some hoteliers have considered this normal and have adapted their daily operations and even their strategy…
Large Internet companies are evolving with a common objective: occupying the whole life cycle of the client, focusing especially on the most interesting and juiciest part from a money point of view, the booking or the hotel transaction. Historically, the life cycle phases have been occupied by the giants of the industry with well-defined limits.…
After the recent launch of instant booking (read our post “What is instant booking and how does it work?” for a complete analysis), TripAdvisor has caused a stir and now wants to compete face to face with the main OTAs. Therefore, has TripAdvisor become an OTA? Despite them saying that they are not an OTA…
Once we have analysed what instant booking is and how it compares to Business Listings and TripConnect CPC, we move on to analysing the many questions that this new product comes with. Will it be available in all markets? For now, instant booking is available only for users in the United States, Canada and United…
Booking.com is a sales leader and you can see that every month due to the amount of bookings that it generates. One of the cornerstones of its success is its customer orientation, a highly used concept in marketing –occasionally unfounded- but that in this case it’s put into practice in all of its processes with…