Hospitality Tech

JULY 9, 2025

7/8/2025 Technoheaven Launches Next Generation Global Bed Bank Platform Technoheaven (TH) announced the launch of its next generation global bed bank platform, providing travel agents, tour operators, OTAs and DMCs with access to more than 1 million properties around the world. For more information, visit www.hospitable.com.

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TravelNet

JULY 16, 2025

Your cost to acquire an OTA guest is going up. Is your housekeeping labor cost in line with occupancy? Your newest property isn’t generating reviews. Is it an onboarding issue, a guest satisfaction issue, or a problem with your post-stay communication? In a proactive model, these aren’t end-of-quarter surprises. They’re early signals.

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TravelNet

MARCH 19, 2025

Say you convinced a couple of owners to add nice desks and faster WiFi, promoted those properties to remote workers, and saw an uptick in occupancy. Optimization, especially in your tech stack, can happen much faster at a smaller scale. Direct bookings offer better margins for you while guests pay the same as or less than the OTAs.

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AskSuite

APRIL 28, 2025

Omnichannel Communication Platforms These tools unified communications across multiple platforms such as WhatsApp, OTAs, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and live chat in one interface. Are you in the know? This not only wastes time but increases the risk of human error as well. With integration, data flows automatically between systems.

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Travel Media Group

MAY 15, 2025

How do you scale something like that? But, you know, as I say it seems like, well, well, of course, but scaling something like that, you get into the thousands of properties. So that kind of language and, and that kind of, um, you know, flow scaling that really came out of those partnerships. What is that? Absolutely.

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Hospitality Tech

JUNE 9, 2025

It enables schedule and rule enforcement, over-the-air (OTA) firmware and setting updates, notifications, as well as analytics and reporting for smarter energy management. Ability to leverage occupancy information through the property management system (PMS) and can optionally be expanded to deliver additional services.

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Hospitality Today

JUNE 24, 2025

Today, it combines deeply discounted travel content with financial products like cashback debit cards, credit-building tools, and cash advances—all targeted at price-sensitive consumers underserved by mainstream OTAs. Super.com is seizing the moment, often appearing with discounted offers that undercut both hotels and larger OTAs in price.

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Hospitality Tech

JUNE 9, 2025

It enables schedule and rule enforcement, over-the-air (OTA) firmware and setting updates, notifications, as well as analytics and reporting for smarter energy management. Ability to leverage occupancy information through the property management system (PMS) and can optionally be expanded to deliver additional services.

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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. Online Travel Agencies: Expanding Your Reach When travelers search for a place to stay, they usually turn to Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) like Booking.com, Expedia, or Agoda.

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Hospitality Tech

JUNE 9, 2025

Punchh Loyalty: Punchh® remains the restaurant industry’s gold standard for loyalty and is now even more flexible with deeper integrations into marketing, guest data, and ordering, new membership tier functionality, and AI-driven rule activation to support enterprise-scale retention.

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Hotelogix

APRIL 24, 2025

For hoteliers, this translates to more room-nights, improved occupancy during off-peak periods, and reduced reliance on OTAs. Instead of paying high OTA commissions , you’re able to bring guests back through low-cost direct channels like emails or your mobile app. Q2: What kind of rewards work best for hotels?

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Hospitality Tech

JUNE 9, 2025

The merger will create a restaurant technology company that delivers solutions for the entire food lifecycle at scale. It enables schedule and rule enforcement, over-the-air (OTA) firmware and setting updates, notifications, as well as analytics and reporting for smarter energy management.

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Hospitality Tech

JUNE 9, 2025

Punchh Loyalty: Punchh® remains the restaurant industry’s gold standard for loyalty and is now even more flexible with deeper integrations into marketing, guest data, and ordering, new membership tier functionality, and AI-driven rule activation to support enterprise-scale retention.

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Hotelogix

APRIL 24, 2025

Simplify Bookings and Eliminate Errors Most B&Bs rely on a mix of OTA listings (like Booking.com or Airbnb), direct website traffic, and walk-in guests. It consolidates all reservation sources into one platform and syncs availability in real time across OTAs, your website, and the front desk. 👉 Read Also - Managing a Hotel?

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eZee Absolute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

And there’s no hiding that Online Travel Agents (OTAs) are a major source for optimizing their online booking flow. It is observed that OTAs control approximately 2/3rd of all online bookings. But hoteliers often get muddled among various OTA platforms and miss out on the best ones. Top 10 OTAs to Drive Maximum Bookings.

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Hotelogix

OCTOBER 4, 2024

For small and mid-size hotels, having the right OTA ( Online Travel Agencies ) channel manager is critical. Choosing the right OTA channel manager can streamline your hotel’s online distribution strategy, prevent overbookings, and boost overall profitability. What is a Channel Manager? 

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STAAH

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Tip for Hoteliers: Look for a cloud-based PMS that allows real-time updates, offers mobile access, and can easily scale as your business grows. Channel Manager Managing multiple distribution channels, from Online Travel Agents (OTAs) to direct bookings, can be complex without the right tools.

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Cloudbeds

MARCH 15, 2023

Direct bookings are reservations guests confirm directly with a property without using an online travel agency (OTA) or 3rd party intermediary. Direct bookings are beneficial because they connect lodging businesses directly with potential customers and increase hotel revenue through money saved from OTA commissions.

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STAAH

APRIL 16, 2024

Integration with Distribution Channels: Seamless integration with distribution channels such as online travel agents (OTAs) , global distribution system (GDS) , and direct booking channels is essential for efficient inventory management and distribution.

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Cloudbeds

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Understanding future demand trends, their causes, and the guest segments driving them can help hotel revenue managers adjust room rates to boost occupancy and sales. The bold line represents the average occupancy rate for the competitive set. Each point on the chart shows a specific day’s occupancy for the hotel.

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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. Diversify OTA Distribution Channels Relying too heavily on a single OTA increases operational risk if terms or visibility rankings change.

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Little Hotelier

AUGUST 29, 2023

Prioritising your investments correctly will ensure your budget spend is contributing towards increased revenue and occupancy rates. With their scale and global reach OTAs provide hotels with a cost-effective way to increase bookings on a pay-per-performance basis. Your occupancy rates? Your direct bookings?

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STAAH

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Tip for Hoteliers: Look for a cloud-based PMS that allows real-time updates, offers mobile access, and can easily scale as your business grows. Channel Manager Managing multiple distribution channels, from Online Travel Agents (OTAs) to direct bookings, can be complex without the right tools.

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Clock Software Hospitality

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Here are some of the ways in which hotel PMS solutions can aid a hotel in improving daily operations: Increase RevPAR via Direct Bookings Online travel agencies (OTAs) allow hoteliers unlimited access to a large pool of potential guests, charging a commission for every booking made through them.

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Cloudbeds

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

These channels may include the hotel’s website booking engine, online travel agencies (OTAs), the global distribution system (GDS), wholesalers, and metasearch sites. Most OTAs don’t share guest contact details when forwarding a booking. Build guest relationships before arrival. Automate your credit card payment processing.

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SiteMinder

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Ideally, this means travellers looking for “hotels in” will be quickly enticed further down the sales funnel, which can be a click-through to your website to book directly, an OTA, or a booking generated directly on Google. This can save you an OTA commission and, with direct bookings, lets you own the guest relationship.

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Hotel Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Channel manager: By optimizing all hotels’ booking channels, the channel manager enables hotels to scale their business globally. With turnkey access to OTAs and travel agents, hotels can diversify their revenue, capture high-value bookings, increase occupancy and eliminate double bookings. The post Stayntouch 2.0

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Travelboom Marketing

MARCH 21, 2024

When guests book through the hotel instead of a third-party website or OTA, the hotelier can forgo hefty commission fees and enjoy complete control over the booking experience. Measurable campaigns are also easier to scale and monitor so efforts can be boosted for a more aggressive bidding strategy with ease.

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Little Hotelier

MARCH 10, 2024

Learn more Little Hotelier Little Hotelier is a management software crafted specifically for small-scale hotels, providing a comprehensive suite of tools to simplify daily operations and featuring a range of third-party integrations to enhance functionality.

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StayNTouch

JUNE 1, 2022

Our multi-property upgrades allow us to provide the same mobile flexibility and accessibility that we deliver to individual properties, now scaled up to the chain level. Similarly, hoteliers are now more easily able to determine brand revenue from companies or production from various OTAs or distribution channels.

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Fuel Travel

JULY 11, 2024

This decreases your overall number of third-party bookings and your reliance on OTAs to drive occupancy. Decrease the high commission bookings from OTAs and increase direct bookings, which come at a lower cost to you. This allows you to optimize rates and sell relevant deals to boost revenue and occupancy.

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Hotelogix

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

  Online distribution Managing online distribution across various channels (OTAs, direct bookings, GDS) without an integrated system is arduous in today's digital age. This is a great way to sell more and increase occupancy and revenue.  In this context, attracting the right mix of guests becomes more challenging.

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Hotelogix

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Hotel PMS provides several operational reports, including a history and forecast report, revenue report, reservation report, housekeeping report, night audit report, financial report, guest history report, occupancy reports, etc., Scalability : Cloud-based systems can be easily scaled up as the hotel grows.

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Cloudbeds

APRIL 30, 2024

Given the stratospheric rise of online bookings, in tandem with online travel agencies (OTAs) and metasearch sites , the hotel pricing and distribution environment began evolving at an extraordinary pace, and more agile pricing strategies transitioned from a nice to have to an essential instrument. Maximizing occupancy. Usability.

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SiteMinder

JANUARY 8, 2024

Placing yourself on a scale of personal growth is especially important for a hotel manager. A core aspect of hotel management includes managing your room inventory and reaching desired occupancy rates; however, you could also be ensuring that everything is in order for your guests or organising staff and cleaning schedules.

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Little Hotelier

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

You can set minimum and maximum rates to ensure profitability, offer discounts and promotions at the right times, and adjust rates based on occupancy and demand. Automated pricing keeps your rates competitive and helps maximise occupancy and revenue.

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Clock Software Hospitality

JANUARY 12, 2021

Read more: The Three Steps to Building a Successful Segmentation Strategy For Hotels Concerts had to reschedule with tour dates pushed back a year or so, and any large scale public events that still take place (races, sports events, exhibitions, etc.) Is the wedding industry going to pull back from large scale events?

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