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Tripla Expands Into Indonesia Via BookandLink Acquisition

Tripla, which provides a booking engine to hotels in Japan and Southeast Asia, has acquired a travel tech company in Indonesia. Tripla said it has acquired a 53% stake in BookandLink, which provides software to help hotels track and manage sales through third-party distribution channels. The other 47% of BookandLink was acquired by the Development…

Justin Dawes | 7 months ago

Hotels

Demand for Direct Booking Tech is Booming: New Skift Research

With a growing share of hotel bookings made online, many hoteliers are reliant on third-party travel websites for booking volumes, and global visibility. Booking engines, website builders, and direct-booking tools can help these hotels find a better balance between first- and third-party bookings.

Saniya Zanpure | 1 year ago

News Blog

Travelsoft Acquires Travel Compositor to Expand Booking Software Services

Travelsoft, a company that offers software products focused on travel bookings, has added a third brand to its portfolio. The Paris-based company said Monday that it acquired Spain-based Travel Compositor, a provider of travel booking engines, for an undisclosed price. Travel Compositor said its platforms handle €1 billion ($1.1 billion) worth of bookings annually and…

Justin Dawes | 1 year ago

Free Read

Travel Booking

Open Distribution: A New Hotel Booking Model for Hospitality’s Future

The hotel booking ecosystem is weighed down by siloed software systems, middlemen who take a piece of the RevPAR pie, and guests who don’t have as much control over their experiences as they should. The founder of Impala spoke to SkiftX about how to eliminate these issues with a new model: Open Distribution.

Impala + Skift | 2 years ago

Hotels

Latin America Hotels Unite to Launch Direct Booking Tools and Website

Far too many hoteliers in Latin America have failed to embrace the latest tools for marketing their businesses online. A group of Argentine hoteliers aims to bridge this digital divide by pooling resources.

Paula Krizanovic, Skift | 2 years ago

Travel Technology

SiteMinder Grabs Unicorn Status in Australia IPO

This was a great day for unheralded channel managers and digital marketing startups toiling in the backwaters of hotel distribution. If SiteMinder can achieve unicorn status, perhaps through a SPAC, an IPO or more hard work, keep at it and you can too.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Coronavirus

Setting Out the Tech Landscape for Hotel Distribution: New Skift Research

Getting your hotel tech demands right is never an easy process. Why should tech for hotel distribution be any different? Hoteliers end up working with many vendors to help grasp demand, set rates. and get rooms on the right channels. Here's some clarity to figure out that morass.

Wouter Geerts, Skift | 3 years ago

Free Read

Online Travel

How Hotels Can Help Drive Direct Bookings in 2018

For hotels looking to drive direct bookings, simply offering more competitive pricing or better loyalty programs is no longer enough to compete with online travel agencies.

Criteo + Skift | 7 years ago

Online Travel

The New Wave of Booking Tech That’s Disrupting How Airlines Sell Tickets

Airlines are using new channels, such as Facebook chat and other airlines' websites, to sell their seats and other products. Some are turning to startups for help, rather than rely only on establishment vendors.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 7 years ago

Airlines

Airlines Can Profit from Being Smart, But Being Smarter Can Help Them Own the Journey

Whether it’s airlines which capitalise on artificial intelligence capabilities, or another sector of the travel industry, smart queries and solutions-oriented replies are the next logical step for the future of everything.

Marisa Garcia, Skift | 8 years ago

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