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5 OTA Mistakes That Could Be Hurting Your Hotel Revenue (and How to Fix Them)

STAAH

Hotels rely on OTAs like Booking.com, Agoda, and Expedia to stay visible and fill rooms. Here are 5 overlooked online travel agent (OTA) mistakes — and how to fix them. The OTA adds a member discount on top. The OTA adds a member discount on top. Here’s what happens: You run a mobile rate or country discount.

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5 OTA Mistakes That Could Be Hurting Your Hotel Revenue (and How to Fix Them)

STAAH

Hotels rely on OTAs like Booking.com, Agoda, and Expedia to stay visible and fill rooms. Here are 5 overlooked online travel agent (OTA) mistakes — and how to fix them. The OTA adds a member discount on top. The OTA adds a member discount on top. Here’s what happens: You run a mobile rate or country discount.

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Maximizing Hotel Revenue: Advanced Channel Manager Strategies for 2025

STAAH

GDS and Niche OTA Power b. With consumer behaviours evolving, and the lines between tech platforms, marketing, and operations blurring, a modern strategy goes far beyond just listing rooms on online travel agents (OTAs). If youre only using it to manage availability, you’re missing out on serious ROI. No more repetition.

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Is Your Hotel’s Marketing Team Doing Too Much—and Getting Too Little?

BCV

The next, it’s reconciling OTA dashboards, agency invoices, and influencer mood boards. The modern hotel marketing team is overburdened, under-integrated, and way too dependent on vendors who can’t prove ROI. Ditch anything that doesn’t directly support conversions, loyalty, or brand building. It’s a workflow issue.

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The Budget Paradox: Why Do Hotels Have Unlimited Budgets for Expensive Reservations?

The Hotels Network Blog

For OTAs, however, they negotiate a commission on bookings. Direct bookings, on the other hand, involve a combination of fixed costs (such as people, technology, and brand marketing) and variable costs (such as performance marketing and paid media). It is also worth noting that commission isn’t the only cost associated with OTAs.

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OTAs ramped up their marketing investments in Q1 2025

Hospitality Today

This investment reflects an intensifying battle for customer acquisition, brand loyalty, and distribution control, as these companies diversify away from heavy reliance on Google by leveraging social media and AI. Key takeaways Marketing spend keeps rising OTAs spent $4.5B billion in 2024. billion in 2024.

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Hospitality Content Marketing – Proven Strategies for Success

MediaBoom

This evolution highlights the urgency for hospitality brands to adopt innovative strategies like hospitality content marketing , which involves creating and distributing valuable, engaging content to connect with travelers at every stage of their journey. This includes blogs, videos, and social media posts designed to inspire and inform.