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Articles tagged “otas”

Online Travel

Don’t Expect a Huge Crisis Bounceback for Online Travel Agencies This Time

The online travel space has always been super-competitive, but established players like Expedia Group and Booking Holdings face a growing roster of formidable competitors, including hotels, Google and Airbnb.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Don’t Expect a Huge Crisis Bounceback for Online Travel Agencies This Time

Coronavirus

Barbados Builds Its Own Online Travel Booking Platform to Be a Game Changer

This is what action looks like, if Caribbean tourism is to build back better. Investment in technology, a solid private-public relationship, and homegrown talent driving the framework and the narrative.

Lebawit Lily Girma | 2 years ago

Barbados Builds Its Own Online Travel Booking Platform to Be a Game Changer

Online Travel

Evoking Travel Inspiration Online to Combat Covid Anxieties

Trip.com Group, Airbnb, and other online travel agencies have all made commitments to up their travel inspiration games. Pandemic uncertainties and anxieties will bolster their efforts.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Evoking Travel Inspiration Online to Combat Covid Anxieties
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Hotels

Executive Q&A: Lessons on the Future of Digital Payments for Travel and Hospitality Companies

The pandemic proved that digitized payment solutions are no longer a “nice-to-have” for travel and hospitality companies and the businesses they work with — they’re now a must. Thankfully, new digital payment solutions in the B2B space, many inspired by innovations in B2C payments, are now available, as the industry looks toward a post-pandemic landscape.

Onyx CenterSource + Skift | 3 years ago

Executive Q&A: Lessons on the Future of Digital Payments for Travel and Hospitality Companies

Online Travel

Latin America Travel Booking Sites Won’t Fully Recover Until 2022 at the Earliest

Online travel agencies were big players in travel search during the pandemic in major Latin American countries. There's a bright future for these booking sites in the region as travel restarts.

Angel Adegbesan, Skift | 3 years ago

Latin America Travel Booking Sites Won’t Fully Recover Until 2022 at the Earliest

Online Travel

Hopper Sells Travel But Its Fintech Hedging Drives the Growth

Hopper makes more money on add-on, fintech-oriented services than on selling travel — even the usually juicy hotel business. The business isn't profitable but who cares when grabbing market share is on the agenda.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Hopper Sells Travel But Its Fintech Hedging Drives the Growth

Online Travel

Google to End Tours and Activities Booking Next Month

Google's retreat in tours and activities booking services doesn't mean Google is becoming less powerful in travel. It's part of Google's strategy to wrangle consistency across its products in offering a combination of advertisements and free listings to gain an even wider audience.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Google to End Tours and Activities Booking Next Month

Hotels

New Research: 5 Things Hoteliers Need to Know About OTA Travelers

New research shows that travelers that book trips via online travel agencies will play a significant role in hospitality’s recovery. Hoteliers that keep the evolving wants and needs of OTA travelers in mind will have an advantage as properties reimagine how they do business.

Skift | 3 years ago

New Research: 5 Things Hoteliers Need to Know About OTA Travelers

Online Travel

Tripadvisor’s New Subscription Service Edges the Company Toward Online Travel Agency Status

Years ago, before it acquired Viator, Tripadvisor was purely an advertising/media company. Today, with its big bet on the Tripadvisor Plus subscription program, the company is becoming much more of a hybrid advertising/booking site. That is certainly one of the calculations that the hotel industry is considering.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Tripadvisor’s New Subscription Service Edges the Company Toward Online Travel Agency Status

Online Travel

A New Trivago Will Have More Booking and Travel Inspiration

While Tripadvisor has transitioned over the years away from hotel metasearch in a big way — largely because of Google's incursions — Trivago is just starting to dabble with diversification. That tilt could lead to more significant changes in the future.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

A New Trivago Will Have More Booking and Travel Inspiration