Hotels pay OTAs $50 billion in 2023 - Year over year, OTAs are taking over bigger percentages of the hospitality industry's traditional feeder markets and customer segments.

Oct 16, 2023 • Hospitality

Booking.com supervised for a year due to multiple data leaks - The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) had the OTA under tightened supervision due to delayed reporting of data breaches.

Apr 4, 2024 • Hospitality

Hospitality insights and predictions for 2024 - McKinsey expects a data revolution to take root across nearly every aspect of the hospitality industry in the coming years.

Dec 21, 2023 • Hospitality

The Chinese tourism tsunami is late - Half a year after China’s reopening, most tourism spending remains trapped at home.

Jun 12, 2023 • Travel

Expedia first OTA to offer attribute-based hotel shopping - ABS unbundles attributes that make up a hotel rate plan, increasing price transparency while helping travelers easily compare their options to build their ideal stay.

Apr 17, 2023 • Hospitality

Amex GBT projects higher 2024 hotel rates, occupancy - The company used its internal data coupled with International Monetary Fund's inflation forecasts to forecast hotel rate movement in more than 80 cities.

Oct 6, 2023 • Hospitality

How Google reshapes hotel distribution - New Skift research views the latest iteration by the search giant as contributing directly to the democratization of the online travel industry.

Oct 19, 2023 • Hospitality

Booking.com under fire for privacy and security concerns - The OTA has come under fire by hotels who allege that it isn’t doing enough to protect them from becoming victims of cyberattacks on its app.

Dec 5, 2023 • Hospitality