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Tourism
TikTok has become an influential force in travel discovery. Selling travel more directly would make it formidable.
Dawit Habtemariam | 2 months ago
Hotels
Hotel companies pay billions a year to online travel agencies and other distributors. Our estimate of how much is eye-opening. So is hoteliers' naiveté about how sustainable their level of spending is.
Seth Borko and Sean O'Neill, Skift | 7 months ago
Hotel companies want to reduce their dependence on online travel agencies, which charge high commissions. But as hotel rates rise and economies get shakier, consumers may prefer to do more comparison shopping.
Priyamvada C, Reuters | 1 year ago
Online Travel
Lufthansa's test partnership may or may not work out. But what's certain is that all major travel rewards programs have broad opportunities to use their customer databases in ways that luxury retailers such as Aston Martin and Omega will actually like.
Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago
Serent Capital was an investing chaperone to Revinate's acquisition of Navis. Its thesis is that the technological stars have finally aligned to produce many of the business intelligence breakthroughs that hotel companies have long sought.
Coronavirus
The hotel distribution landscape is complex, with hotel rooms being sold and promoted in many different channels. Covid-19 has certainly impacted how and where hotel rooms are being distributed, but it is unlikely this disruption will be sustained long-term. That’s not to say that disruption isn’t coming, though.
Wouter Geerts, Skift Research | 3 years ago
As the saying goes, keep your friends close and your rivals closer. Or in this case, that rival might turn out to be a friend, after all, once you've become the world's biggest hotel company.
Deanna Ting, Skift | 5 years ago
