Articles tagged “hotel distribution”

Hotels

Sam Nazarian’s SBE Attempts Lifestyle Hotel Comeback With Wyndham Deal

Sam Nazarian once built buzzy hotel brands Hyde and SLS. Can Nazarian repeat the trick with the help of unlikely partners Wyndham and musical artist (and investor) Marc Anthony?

Sean O'Neill | 3 months ago

Sam Nazarian’s SBE Attempts Lifestyle Hotel Comeback With Wyndham Deal

Hotels

Hopper Has a Hotel Chain Problem

Hopper is under pressure to get profitable, and an IPO may be in its long-range plans. Blowback against some of its fintech products and issues with hotel chains, aren't helping.

Dennis Schaal | 3 months ago

Hopper Has a Hotel Chain Problem

Hotels

Europe’s Independent Hotels Lag U.S. Brands on Google Hotels: New Skift Research

Smaller independent hotels in Europe, lacking the marketing budgets and tech capabilities of branded counterparts in the U.S., are more inclined to rely on online travel agencies for distribution rather than their own sites.

Pranavi Agarwal | 5 months ago

Europe’s Independent Hotels Lag U.S. Brands on Google Hotels: New Skift Research

Hotels

Google Reshapes Hotel Distribution: 3 Key Insights

Google is constantly tweaking its hotels platform and we see its latest iteration contributing directly to the democratization of the online travel industry.

Pranavi Agarwal | 6 months ago

Google Reshapes Hotel Distribution: 3 Key Insights

Hotels

Google Unveiled: A Web-Scraping Analysis of U.S. Hotel Distribution – New Skift Research

We web scraped 5,000 hotels across Google to understand the current state of the wider distribution landscape. We found that Google's actions are allowing small OTAs, new entrants and direct sites to compete head-on with the legacy players. Could this mean the end of the duopolistic power long-held by Booking and Expedia?

Pranavi Agarwal | 6 months ago

Google Unveiled: A Web-Scraping Analysis of U.S. Hotel Distribution – New Skift Research

Hotels

Hotels to Pay Middlemen $75 Billion in 2023: Skift Research

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 | 6 months ago

Hotels to Pay Middlemen $75 Billion in 2023: Skift Research

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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

Effective Hotel Marketing in the Digital Age: New Skift Research

Get a preview of our latest output from our Hotel Tech Benchmark data product. In this update, Skift Research looks closely at the best uses of digital marketing and advertising tools.

Saniya Zanpure | 10 months ago

Effective Hotel Marketing in the Digital Age: New Skift Research

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The Technology Improving Hotel Distribution: New Skift Research

The abundance of hotel booking channels calls for a tech-enabled distribution strategy. Central Reservation Systems help manage rates and availability across multiple booking channels and have the potential to become a $1.3 billion tech category.

Saniya Zanpure | 12 months ago

The Technology Improving Hotel Distribution: New Skift Research

Hotels

Independent Hotels Tap Social Media to Drive Direct Bookings

Independent hoteliers don't have a level playing field with the big brands when it comes to attracting direct bookings. But a savvy use of social media can improve things a lot.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Independent Hotels Tap Social Media to Drive Direct Bookings