Our independent hotels are a really great outlier, as the majority of our hotels do not use OTA, and are 100% direct. What *are* & *should be* direct bookings get siphoned into different ecosystems, whether a legit bait and switch, or just being swallowed by the black hole of Google. Our metasearch has done wonders,…
Giant tech and their “hacker”-solutions to everything, without actually consulting businesses. Being upset isn’t the right move.
So we know there’s “Hacker-Fares” on Kayak. Not too big a deal, considering that airlines are a commodity, and they don’t care if you book one way, round trip, etc. They’ve got their game, and you can play by it, or fly another airline. Kayak realized that, and created a service for users that further…
REVENUE MANAGERS: Please consider this anti-competitive behavior, and explain how independent hotels can battle it.
Remember… I’m not a blogger, a marketer, or a web guy. I am a hotel ops guy, and I’m just trying to produce content at my leisure, as best I can. So with that out of the way, there’s 2 things I am worried and confused about, and I hate being alone on an island,…
A quick missive on the effectiveness of Hotel Tonight for independent boutique hotels.
Hotel Tonight is a bit like that https://hackertable.com that I use…. I might not be able to eat at the precise restaurant I want, at the precise time, at the last minute…. but I can find of the best
Revenue Management tools, Yield Management, Rate Shoppers, Channel Management, Booking Engines, and some hotel tech: PRICEMATCH.FR!
As of now, the only commission free booking engine I know of is buuteeq’s, which doesn’t interface and provides a nightmare for inventory management. The only interfaced to PMS, commission free booking engine that I have ever heard of or known is Mirage Hotel Systems, who built their own that they offer with their PMS, which is also my favorite. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy it, in a heart beat. It’s astonishing more PMS don’t do this to secure more clientele.