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Hotels
Many execs at hotels and online travel agencies are playing a fun game called "Guess How AI Will Disrupt Us Before It Actually Does."
Sean O'Neill | 2 months ago
Airlines
Turkish Airlines is ruffling feathers as it pushes for direct bookings starting in October. American Airlines failed an attempt for a similar strategy this year, which surely will inform the execution for Turkish.
Justin Dawes | 3 months ago
Ryanair approved a handful of online travel agency partners, and it's verifying the details booking by booking.
Dennis Schaal | 3 months ago
Business Travel
Hotel chains are quietly planning to shift their distribution strategies, aiming to bypass traditional intermediaries and boost direct bookings from corporate travel buyers. But with billions at stake, expect fights from legacy players.
Sean O'Neill | 3 months ago
American reintroduced its fares to the channels where travel agencies want to book them, and Isom acknowledged their absence was their biggest "pain point." The airline, too, will be feeling pain for some time.
Dennis Schaal | 4 months ago
Experiences
Lastminute.com Group's deal with TUI Musement will enable more travelers to book tours and activities as an add-on to flight-plus-hotel packages.
Jesse Chase-Lubitz | 5 months ago
Speaking to Skift, the former British Airways CEO gave his informed perspective on the problems at American Airlines.
Gordon Smith | 5 months ago
American Airlines tried to drag an entrenched industry toward the airline's vision of a more productive distribution future. But the financial hit stung.
Dennis Schaal | 6 months ago
Short-Term Rentals
The short-term rental space is fragmented to the hilt. We'll probably see more channel managers like Rentals United consolidating or seeing their businesses dry up.
Dennis Schaal | 7 months ago
We web-scraped 20k+ hotels listed on Google across the U.S., Europe, Asia and Middle East to understand which online travel agencies and direct sites compete for bookings in Google's sponsored and organic listings.
Pranavi Agarwal | 7 months ago
