Articles tagged “channel manager”

Online Travel

SiteMinder Gets Backing From Financial Giant Fidelity Ahead of Hotel Software IPO

SiteMinder minimized the pandemic's hit to revenue by selling new tools to help hotels with payments and digital marketing. No wonder Fidelity International wanted to invest ahead of the startup's likely initial public offering in 2022.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

SiteMinder Gets Backing From Financial Giant Fidelity Ahead of Hotel Software IPO

Hotels

Hotel Direct Bookings Hold Strong During Pandemic: New Skift Research

Early data shows that hotels' direct bookings are gaining market share during the pandemic, with both brand.com and phone making ground during this time of lower demand. Is this permanent, and if so, which other channels will lose out?

Wouter Geerts, Skift Research | 3 years ago

Hotel Direct Bookings Hold Strong During Pandemic: New Skift Research

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

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

Online Travel

Making More Affordable Software for the World’s Independent Hotels

We like to say there's always a way to create your own white space. HotelRunner is a startup looking at the crowded hospitality sector in fresh ways. Think the budget model of EasyJet or AirAsia, but for a hotel tech stack.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

Making More Affordable Software for the World’s Independent Hotels

Online Travel

Hotelogix Merges With 2 Hotel Tech Firms to Lead Rollup in India

The merger of Hotelogix, a property management system, with AxisRooms, a provider of revenue management and distribution services, and RepUp, an online reputation management tool, is probably one of many mergers likely in hotel tech in response to the crisis.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

Hotelogix Merges With 2 Hotel Tech Firms to Lead Rollup in India

Online Travel

SiteMinder Gets Funding Boost as Financial Titan BlackRock Bets on Hotel Tech

To call a company the best-capitalized hotel tech startup might seem like pointing out the tallest leprechaun. But while SiteMinder serves only about 36,000 hotels out of a million worldwide, new funding from cash-rich investor BlackRock could fuel the hotel connectivity startup's growth substantially.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

SiteMinder Gets Funding Boost as Financial Titan BlackRock Bets on Hotel Tech

Online Travel

SiteMinder Diversifies Away From Helping Hotels Solely on Room Sales

Tech provider SiteMinder is the latest firm to make it easier for smaller hotels to adopt new tools from other third-party vendors to manage their properties. The trend could give the little guys more weaponry in online sales — and help SiteMinder become more valuable for hotels.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

SiteMinder Diversifies Away From Helping Hotels Solely on Room Sales

Hotels

New Skift Research Analyst Session: Exploring Vacation Rental Tech Must-Haves

More consumers than ever are using vacation rentals. But as the line with hotels blurs and the industry enter a new growth phase, it faces unique challenges in delivering the hospitality guests expect. Technology will be key to providing an elevated guest experience and will help determine who sees the most success.

Seth Borko, Skift Research | 6 years ago

New Skift Research Analyst Session: Exploring Vacation Rental Tech Must-Haves