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Articles tagged “rate parity”

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

Trivago CEO and Kayak Co-Founder Possess Skewed Views on the Best Way to Innovate

When it comes to brainstorming, there's no substitute for a Skift reporter ambling over to a Skift Research analyst's desk, and shooting the breeze about Oyo's model, or looking over a shoulder to view on screen how Expedia's marketing spend is trending. That dynamic is really tough to replicate on Zoom.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Trivago CEO and Kayak Co-Founder Possess Skewed Views on the Best Way to Innovate

Online Travel

Major Online Travel Exec: Negotiating With Google Is Almost Pointless

Deep-pocketed Google clearly didn't appease suffering travel advertisers in any meaningful way because it didn't have to — it's Google. Don't look for Google to find religion in terms of being a more collaborative partner perhaps until regulators would take it down a peg.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Major Online Travel Exec: Negotiating With Google Is Almost Pointless

Hotels

Marriott and Expedia Exclusive Agreement Will Retake Control of Wholesale Rates

In an I-just-saw-an-elephant-fly moment, Marriott International will be directing businesses to Expedia Group to access certain Marriott wholesale rates. Bedbanks, tour operators, and smaller online travel agencies that play games with room rates are put on notice.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Marriott and Expedia Exclusive Agreement Will Retake Control of Wholesale Rates

Online Travel

Hotels Struggle to Stop Resellers From Undercutting Their Rates

Consumers often wonder where they can find the lowest rate for a hotel room online. Oddly enough, a hotel's managers may not know the answer. Mysteriously discounted rates from small sites and apps are popping up more often online, even in markets like the U.S. where a few hotel groups dominate.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

Hotels Struggle to Stop Resellers From Undercutting Their Rates

Online Travel

Google Hotels Ads Could Make Gains With Chain Loyalty Rates

The big chains now offer special book-direct deals through Google Hotel Ads. This helps with click-through and conversions, but also with new loyalty member acquisition — everything a growing hotel chain needs in an ad partner.

Luke Bujarski, Skift Research | 6 years ago

Google Hotels Ads Could Make Gains With Chain Loyalty Rates

Hotels

Booking.com’s Hotel Rate Practices Get Slapped Down in Germany

The German regulator's ruling to reject Booking.com's reformed hotel rate practices as not going far enough could be a landmark decision if it holds up upon appeal and if other European countries follow Germany's lead. Booking.com may have the leverage to inhibit hotel partners from getting carried away on discounting but the ruling is a victory for consumers nonetheless.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Booking.com’s Hotel Rate Practices Get Slapped Down in Germany

Hotels

Expedia CEO on Changing the Relationship With Hotels

Lawsuits didn't kill hotel rate parity. Instead, it is Big Data, analytics, advertsiing retargeting and personalization that are making enforcement of rate-parity provisions almost untenable.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Expedia CEO on Changing the Relationship With Hotels

Hotels

Switzerland probes Booking.com, Expedia and HRS on hotel rate parity

You can expect that the online travel agencies eventually will have to alter their hotel rate parity practices -- in Europe, at least.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Switzerland probes Booking.com, Expedia and HRS on hotel rate parity

Hotels

Hotels and booking sites now face suit in U.S. over hotel price-fixing “conspiracy”

This suit could get really interesting, although only the courts or regulators will ultimately decide if the anti-competition claims pass legal muster. If the plaintiffs prevail, then hotel-OTA rate-parity practices in the U.S. could get tossed out the window.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels and booking sites now face suit in U.S. over hotel price-fixing “conspiracy”