Booking.com shows true colours of a dominant player The threat of legal action to prevent hotels using TripTease’s Price Check widget shows how seriously Booking.com is taking the situation. The message is clear: play by our rules or don’t play at all. That explains also why an “overwhelming” amount of hotels support TripTease, but don’t want to come out publicly. Source: Hotel Marketing
Many hoteliers fail to secure highly lucrative GDS bookings GDS distribution and travel agents remain an overlooked yet lucrative source of revenue for hoteliers, because many are looking at them the wrong way. Especially when you factor in cost of distribution, GDS bookings can offer hotels a premium. Source: Hotel Marketing
Serviced apartments booked by corporate travelers remain flat for 2015 More than 80 per cent of European travel buyers booked the same or less serviced apartment rooms this year compared to 2014, according to research from the Business Travel Show. Yet more buyers accommodation programs include service apartments. Source: Hotel Marketing
Airbnb’s UK data reveals impact of the sharing economy More than 3 million people in the UK used Airbnb accommodation for their travels this year in a boost to the sharing economy, the site has revealed. There were 2.2 million travellers who used Airbnb to visit the UK in the year to November. Source: Hotel Marketing