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What is a booking engine? How to increase profitability and direct bookings

Cloudbeds

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.

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Hotel Revenue Management Strategies

Xotels

Also, gone are the days of selling the majority of your rooms through OTAs. Making sure you get your fair share of direct bookings allows you to compete with OTAs and avoiding to pay the hefty commissions on those bookings. Mix of business and leisure amenities and services (see how to target the bleisure market ).

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Hotel rate management: Best software to use

SiteMinder

As we all know, supply is how much of a service the market provides and demand is how much of the market wants to pay for it. Distribution channel analysis : Understanding which distribution channels (like OTAs, direct bookings, travel agents) are bringing in the most revenue and at what cost is essential for rate management.