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Articles tagged “otas”

Airlines

Airline websites escalate customer feud with OTAs

The airline-OTA fight is as old as online travel, but it is picking up. Metasearch sites, such as Kayak and Google Flight Search, are a key battleground as some airlines establish special rules to avoid comparisons with competitors.

Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

The next generation of Kayak wannabes: 10 travel metasearch challengers

Kayak's tagline has been "search one and done." All too often travel metasearch sites have launched and soon been "done." The biggest challenge for the new crop -- even the best ones -- is how to get their brands out there so travelers will use them.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

The next generation of Kayak wannabes: 10 travel metasearch challengers

Hotels

California state judge rules online travel agencies not subject to hotel taxes

The OTAs have won the majority of these cases around the country, although there are important exceptions. Despite this ruling, there is no sign that this decade-long hotel tax battle is showing any sign of abating.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Why the “Mad Money” host is bullish about online booking sites

Cramer thinks Orbitz is a distance third to Priceline and Expedia as an investment. That's quite a distance.

Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Japan’s largest travel site Rakuten Travel aggressively expands in Asia

Unlike the U.S., consumers are still making the transition from offline to online booking in Asia indicating a large opportunity for an OTA to emerge outside of China.

Suchit Leesa-Nguansuk, Bangkok Post | 11 years ago

Japan’s largest travel site Rakuten Travel aggressively expands in Asia

Online Travel

Four global megatrends forcing the travel industry to adapt or die

The tourism industry does not work alone. It simultaneously touches and is impacted by world events, technology, green energy, the economy, and, of course, people. It must consider and constantly adapt to these moving factors in order to move forward in a positive meaningful way.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Skift Originals

The online planning and booking habits of ten different tourist groups

There are a number of OTAs making headway in the booming tourism markets of Asia, but their growth and travelers’ independence continues to be limited by structural and political infrastructure.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

The online planning and booking habits of ten different tourist groups

Hotels

Hotels market their way around rate pacts with online travel agencies

This practice really doesn't seem so "out of the box." Haven't hotel loyalty programs been doing this for years? And airlines and online travel agencies do likewise.

Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

Google Flight Search launches in five European countries without EasyJet or Ryanair

Google is in no hurry to meet anyone else's timetables in the development of Google Flight Search, as today's European launch attests.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

Texas judge finds online travel agencies owe $55 million in hotel tax

The hotel tax issues dogs the online travel agencies; they win most cases, but get zapped every once in awhile. The Texas case, which dates to 2006, isn't over yet. It will be appealed.

Skift | 11 years ago