SiteMinder

JULY 14, 2025

Unlocking profit for its clients has become synonymous with the brand over the years. Melting the headaches of a new property RevenYou encountered a property that was three months into its operation, which was suffering from significant overbooking issues leading to negative guest experiences and extremely stressful conditions for staff.

Business

Hotel Speak

JANUARY 28, 2025

Design branded, mobile-friendly websites using tools like innQuest Ignite, innQuests hotel website builder to drive direct bookings and create a great first impression. Simplified Distribution: Managing room inventory across multiple Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) can be complex.

Management

Little Hotelier

JULY 15, 2025

A single missed or miscommunicated reservation can mean losing critical revenue, not to mention the brand damage that comes from frustrated guests who are caught up in an overbooking or a missed reservation. Timely, branded communications reassure guests their reservation is secure and set a professional and positive pre-arrival tone.

Cancellation

Up Hotel

JULY 21, 2025

Our SEO approach reduces reliance on online travel agencies (OTAs) by driving direct traffic to your site, maximising revenue. This ensures smooth data handling, reduces the risk of overbookings, and provides a consistent experience across all devices, whether guests book via mobile or desktop.

Hotels

Hotelogix

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Finding it hard to keep up with famous brands. Not sure how online travel agencies (OTAs) work Social media feels overwhelming Don’t know how to manage online reviews Here’s what you can do: Start small: Pick one platform (like Facebook) and master it before moving on. These problems are real, but you can solve them.

Online Marketing

SiteMinder

JUNE 5, 2025

It helps define your property’s value, clarify your brand positioning, and attract the right type of guest. Being clear about where your property sits helps you: Attract the right travellers; Price rooms more effectively; and, Build a stronger, more consistent brand. Hotels have more room to build a brand.

Motels

SiteMinder

JULY 17, 2025

For hotel managers, that means a fresh stream of millennial and Gen Z guests who are motivated by price, flexibility and share-worthy experiences rather than traditional brand loyalty. By listing your property on Tryp.com, you appear where these younger travellers are already researching trips, without relying solely on the usual OTAs.

Average Daily Rate

STAAH

APRIL 8, 2025

Hoteliers face several challenges that include juggling between online travel agents (OTAs) to maintain rate parity and ensure smooth operations without overbookings or missed opportunities. STAAH connects to more than 500 OTAs, including niche channels.

Management

Hotelogix

MARCH 27, 2025

A poor UX leads to inefficient hotel operations , higher error rates, and unhappy guests—directly impacting guest satisfaction and your brand reputation. Channel Management Real-time inventory syncing across OTAs and direct booking platforms enhances accuracy and reduces overbooking.

Revenue

AskSuite

APRIL 28, 2025

Despite that, nearly 45% of independent hotels still operate with partially integrated or disconnected platforms, leading to challenges such as overbooking, inconsistent pricing across channels, and lack of real-time visibility of interactions with travelers. This minimizes overbookings, billing mistakes, and service delays.

Operations

Hotelogix

APRIL 11, 2025

They help onboard new employees faster, reduce service errors, and maintain brand standards across shifts and properties. ​ - Integrated Channel Manager: Synchronizes room availability across online travel agencies (OTAs) to prevent overbookings.​ This is the future of five-star hospitality.

Overbooking

Hotelogix

APRIL 4, 2025

👉 Read Also - Master Hotel Overbooking: Strategies That Work Hold onto your room keys, because the average consumer is reading a whopping 10 reviews before they trust a business. AI tools now reflect your brand voice , ensuring responses are authentic and aligned with your hotel's unique personality.

Revenue

Hotelogix

JANUARY 12, 2025

Whether it’s a well-crafted website, partnerships with OTAs, or engaging social media, creating a strong online footprint is how you turn searches into bookings. Website: Your Digital Storefront Your hotel’s website is the first step in building your brand’s presence. How to Sign Up with OTAs?

OTA

Hotelogix

APRIL 16, 2025

A cloud-based PMS not only streamlines front desk operations but also integrates seamlessly with tools like a channel manager to ensure real-time room availability across OTAs, reducing overbookings and manual errors. Success also depends on data-backed decisions.

Management

STAAH

JUNE 11, 2024

Finding the right balance between OTAs and direct bookings is a crucial strategy for hotels and accommodation providers for success. On one side, you have OTAs (online travel agents) that are vital distribution partners to liquidate unsold inventory and put heads in beds. There are some distinct advantages of partnering with OTAs.

OTA

Hotelogix

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The advent of Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) has revolutionized the hospitality sector. This is the primary reason why as a hotelier, you should know how to select the right OTAs for your hotel. This is the primary reason why as a hotelier, you should know how to select the right OTAs for your hotel.

OTA

SiteMinder

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hotel overbookings can be a divisive topic. However, you can minimise the risk of having to walk travellers if you have a solid overbooking strategy. However, you can minimise the risk of having to walk travellers if you have a solid overbooking strategy. What is the definition of overbooking for a hotel?

Overbooking

Hotelogix

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Channel Manager A channel manager is a software that helps you distribute/update your hotel’s rooms and rates on all the connected Online Travel Agencies (OTA). For example, you sell your rooms on 5 OTAs. You can’t just set one rate and allocate a certain number of rooms to these OTAs and forget about it.

OTA

STAAH

MARCH 17, 2024

The Indian hotel no longer struggles with the aftermath of manual inventory and rate management, including overbookings and loss of staff efficiency. This activity was time-consuming for the team and opened the door to issues such as unintentional overbooking or lost revenue due to delayed rate updates.

Overbooking

Hotelogix

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Online Travel Agents for hotels or OTAs serve as important distribution channels for hotels. OTAs are online platforms or websites that sell hotel rooms to customers. An excellent marketing strategy incorporates OTAs to boost sales and revenue. These statistics show why OTAs are essential for hotels.

OTA

STAAH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Coordinating availability across multiple channels was a cumbersome task, often leading to overbooking or missed opportunities. These could also cause negative guest experience and long-term brand erosion that is hard to build up. Additionally, manual updates and discrepancies in pricing caused a bit confusion.

Overbooking

SiteMinder

MARCH 20, 2024

Learn more Revealing the transformation that SiteMinder inspired Understanding the challenges faced prior to implementing SiteMinder, Fon recalled the chaos of manual sales operations, especially when managing room allotments across multiple OTAs. “Without SiteMinder, managing room inventory manually was a cumbersome task.

Revenue

Hotel Speak

AUGUST 13, 2024

A popular and cost-effective way to optimise this visibility is to leverage the Billboard Effect – where hotels can advertise for free on third-party websites, like Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) and metasearch platforms.

Revenue

Hotel Speak

JULY 24, 2024

Hotels have worked with third parties such as airlines, travel agents, online travel agents (OTAs) and the Global Distribution System (GDS) for decades. While the OTA owns the customer in the first instance, hotels can put in place systems to win over the customer and earn more revenue from each guest’s stay.

OTA

STAAH

MAY 5, 2024

The Greenwood Hotel, Beltola is a boutique hospitality brand that echoes the traits of an evergreen forest, humbly opens the gateway to the largely unexplored lands of the Seven Sisters of Northeast India, where natural wonders and vibrant traditions abound.

Management

STAAH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

On the channel management front, overbookings and incorrect pricing were adding to the poor online experience for Sutton Hall. Being completely customizable, the themes, fonts, and color schemes of the booking engine were easily updated to match the Sutton Hall website and brand.

Revenue

SiteMinder

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Flamboyant, vibrant, and ever-changing – that’s how the Kaleidoscope Collection summarises its style and brand identity. We recently chatted with Jon Murphy, Consultant Revenue Director supporting the Kaleidoscope Collection, about how the brand benefits from working with an industry-leading hotel commerce platform.

Revenue

STAAH

JULY 7, 2024

CityBlue is a borderless, branded group of business-centric hotels in Eastern and Southern Africa’s major cities, supported by a world-class digital infrastructure. This has not just saved countless hours but has also reduced the risk of errors and overbookings , providing a seamless booking experience for guests. The rest is history.

Revenue

Cloudbeds

APRIL 8, 2024

Many hoteliers question if it’s worthwhile investing in a direct booking strategy or if they can solely rely on online travel agencies (OTAs) like Airbnb, Booking.com, or Trip.com to fill occupancy. Integrating with these engines and offering real-time pricing and availability ensures that guests book directly instead of with an OTA.

OTA

STAAH

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A positive guest experience can result in glowing online reviews, return visits, and a brand reputation that contributes to ongoing growth. Incentivise them to book directly by providing value-added offers that make a booking via your website more attractive than OTAs. Clever ideas to improve guest experience. #1 1 Pre-arrival contact.

Revenue

Hotelogix

MAY 1, 2025

Rate parity restricts hotels from offering lower prices on their own website than on OTAs, limiting pricing control for independent and mid-scale properties. Integrating your booking engine with a cloud-based PMS ensures real-time updates in availability and pricing across all channels, preventing overbookings and rate mismatches.

OTA

SiteMinder

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Even for a brand as accomplished as Chatrium, these challenges were not easily solved until SiteMinder was implemented. Our constant struggle has been efficiently managing availability, inventory, task management, and online travel agencies (OTAs),” said Pawarisa.

Operations

StayNTouch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This can include a hotel’s website, its social media platforms, phone or email reservations, metasearch engines, or OTAs. The Billboard Effect shouldn’t be underestimated, as a study by Cornell estimates that being listed on an OTA corresponds with a 7.5-26% 26% increase in hotel reservations. 26% increase in hotel reservations.

OTA

Fuel Travel

JULY 11, 2024

It also prevents overbooking and keeps everything in sync, allowing guests to tailor their stay preferences and enhance their experience. A secure, seamless connection ensures that this data is shared in real time, preventing overbooking and cancellations. Reduced Dependency on OTAs Create a more balanced distribution strategy.

Upsell

STAAH

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“What’s significantly different from 2018-19 is the reliance on brand,” says Kamal. Don’t rule out presence on OTAs,” suggests Jaydeep, “but make sure you keep up your profiles on other online media.”. Dynamic pricing. The flexibility factor is now more in play than ever before as last-minute cancellation are common post Covid.

Revenue Management

Hotelogix

MAY 1, 2025

Introduction: Why Hoteliers Should Understand Bidding Platforms As rate parity, OTA commissions , and last-minute booking behaviors evolve, hotel bidding platforms are changing the game. This approach helps fill unsold rooms quickly without broadcasting discounted rates on mainstream OTAs or brand.com websites.

Occupancy

Little Hotelier

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I constantly had to be present to manage bookings from OTAs, Airbnb and direct channels,” she explained. “But despite my best efforts, I struggled with double bookings, overbooking and lost reservations,” she recounts. I no longer have problems with overbookings and my business runs smoothly even while I’m out.

Business