This article explores ten key distribution solutions every hotel needs in order to stay competitive and properly market its products.
Priceline Group reported gross travel bookings growth of 19% to $21.8 billion in the third quarter of 2017. Gross profit grew 22% to $ 4.4 billion and net income rose 240% to $1.7 billion.
The pace with which retailing continues to evolve means random selling of air ancillaries and non-air ancillary products won’t work or pay off in the future.
JetBlue said the move will mark the first part of a new “online distribution strategy.” It will focus on booking directly through its own website and “select third-party channels”.
Gekko includes two hotel booking platforms — Teldar Travel and HCorpo, aiming to add adjacent businesses that can complement its core hotel operations and offer more control of hotel distribution.
TravelClick forecasts that travel agents will make 68 million hotel reservations in the Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport systems this year, surpassing 2016’s total by 2 million.
The latest Ancillary Revenue Yearbook by IdeaWorks and CarTrawler reveals that the top ten airlines has leapt to more than $28 billion, compared with only $2.1 billion in 2007.
Duetto's Michael thought hotels should avoid acquiring guests by sacrificing prices and recognize the need for balanced distribution.
