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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

Altexsoft

In April 2020, the hotel occupancy in the US dropped to its lowest level ever — the bewildering 24.5 The annual average was roughly 44 percent, which means that more than half of hotel rooms were empty during the whole year. This means a hotel is charged every time the ad is clicked and redirection occurs.

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Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel

TechCrunch

Part of the aim of the new offering is to apply to travel expenses the budgeting capabilities that Empower has, Dubugras said. Sometimes companies have the perception that the best way to reduce travel costs is to get people to get cheaper flights or cheaper hotels and make two stops on the way to two places,” he said. “We

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Direct Booking Success: How Hilton, Marriott, La Quinta, and More Hotels Boost Direct Sales

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Hotels have been experiencing a surge of direct bookings during the pandemic. Yes, while the overall number of bookings dropped due to COVID-19, hotels’ brand.com websites became the third most popular booking channel , in some cases even surpassing Expedia traffic. Direct booking strategies for hotels. Why is that?

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Hotel Data Management: Solutions and Practices to Turn Information into a Valuable Asset

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Hotel business produces a plethora of data literally every moment. Let’s take a closer look at major data management processes — data collecting, storing, and analyzing — as applied to the hotel domain. Hotel data collection: what and where to look for. Important hotel data sets and overlaps between them.

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Hotel Booking Engine: How to Boost Direct Bookings

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In 2021, the biggest challenge hotels face is successfully recovering from the COVID-19 impact. Even before the pandemic, when travel was booming, hotels — especially of middle and small sizes — experienced difficulties of another sort. What is a hotel booking engine and how it makes you competitive.

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Hotel Channel Managers: Key Providers and How to Choose a Channel Manager

Altexsoft

In one Hotel Hell episode, lodge guests had to search for a front desk employee by themselves. Eventually, a bartender checked them in with a pen and notebook…The property owners didn’t have an online booking system and were losing a significant amount of revenue they could have used for development. Distribution.

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Bed Banks: Comparing Accommodation, Travel Ancillaries, Connectivity of Hotelbeds, Travco, Bonotel, HotelsPro, and WebBeds

Altexsoft

Wholesalers connect with suppliers’ Property Management Systems to send updates on who and when will occupy these rooms: A guest John Smith will occupy X room from A till B date. The wholesaler’s portfolio includes from over 170,000 to over 180,000 hotels (numbers from official sources differ) in 185 destination countries. Apartments.

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