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Hotel APIs offer booking features and data such as hotel pricing and reviews. Consider these APIs as your go-to toolbox for boosting any travel-related application.

Highly profitable direct bookings are back in the spotlight. Advanced technology can help hotels and resorts drive revenue for those coveted reservations. https://lnkd.in/gYUpvMq6 #traveltechnology #AI #artificialintelligence #travelmarket #hotels #resorts #bookings #directbookings #traveloperations #travelmarketing #travelbusiness

How I set up a hotel on every major OTA in just 10 minutes—and how you can, too Achieving 100% occupancy is every hotelier's dream, and one of the best ways to reach this goal is by maximizing distribution channels. Being listed on platforms like Booking.com, Expedia Group, Airbnb, Tripadvisor, and many others can significantly boost your visibility. However, setting up your property on these platforms—configuring rate plans, uploading photos, and managing listings—can take months. But yesterday, I managed to do it all in just 10 minutes. How? Let me explain. In May 2024, I decided to switch the channel manager for all the hotels I manage to SiteMinder. A new option appeared in the distribution menu: Channels Plus. Channels Plus makes hotel room distribution easy. With one platform to set up and connect to multiple channels, you achieve maximum results with minimal effort. This is a game-changer in the industry, addressing a major pain point. The effort required to list a hotel on a single OTA is immense, and the setup can be exhausting. But Siteminder has turned this process into something enjoyable. With just one setup, you can start selling on a comprehensive list of channel partners that have joined Channels Plus, and this list keeps growing. Now, you can list your hotel in Trip.com (the Booking.com of China), Hopper (the #1 most downloaded travel app in North America, serving hundreds of millions of travelers), and Traveltino (part of the Viajes El Corte Ingles Group). I am incredibly excited about this and will keep you posted. By the way, I’m passionate about helping hoteliers set up Siteminder in their properties. I've been working with these systems since 2009, and there has never been anything as powerful or advanced as Siteminder. I would be delighted to help you onboard, end the struggle, and kickstart your growth. Schedule a free call with me today: https://lnkd.in/dzMA25sT

Imagine a world where every booking goes directly to your hotel, eliminating the middleman and saving you significant commission fees. This isn't just a dream, it’s a reality that direct bookings can offer. Check out 7 innovative strategies to boost your hotel’s direct bookings at https://lnkd.in/grEbvvtZ #STAAH #directbooking #bookingengine #SwiftBook #hotel #hospitalitytechnology #strategy #hospitech

"While OTAs and hotels have a mutually beneficial relationship, the Hotel Industry Trends Report 2024 exposes for the first time the way a recent influx of marketing spend from OTAs is fast reducing hotels’ share of direct bookings." "Only one thing is certain, hotels who fail to deploy the latest technology will be surrendering guest acquisition to those businesses more willing to invest in it, and this could have a devastating impact on growth and profit potential.” A great article by Kate Harden-England @ Travolution.com summarizing SHR Group's 2024 Trends Report regarding the battle between OTA's and hotels for ownership your guests' booking and loyalty.

Enhancing Guest Experience and Boosting Bookings: The Power of Flexible Payment Options for Hotels. https://lnkd.in/dk2ph7Un #hotels #guest #hotelguest #guestexperience #guestrelations #hotelbooking #directbooking #onlinebooking #hotelrevenue #revenuemanagement #onlinemarketing #digitalmarketing #hotelmarketing #sales #marketing #reservations #bookingengine #channelmanager #otas

https://lnkd.in/dmcRmw5c Hotel Distribution Study 2024 • Sales channels for European hotels return to pre-pandemic trends where direct bookings continue to decrease. • Hotels heavily rely on OTAs like Booking.com, for distribution and bookings, especially for smaller hotels with fewer rooms. • The 2 dominant players in the hotel accommodation market are Booking Holdings and Expedia Group to a lesser extent. Booking has a share of 71% in the OTA market, up 10% in the last 10 years. Expedia has a market share of close to 15%, up 2% in the last 2 years. • OTAs undercut prices set by hotels in 4 out of 10 cases. They also multi-source offers by listing rates and availabilities of other OTAs on their own platform, affecting 1 in 2 hotels in Europe and creating multiple operational challenges for hoteliers (such as price inconsistencies). • Electronic distribution represents 45% of overnight stays booked via online channels (online travel agencies, social media, internet booking engines on hotel websites, etc.). • Over the past decade, awareness and use of travel meta-search engines among hotels have increased significantly. In 2013, TripAdvisor led the market with a 71% usage share, but by 2023, Google Hotel Ads has taken the lead with an 80% usage share.

Interesting report recently published by HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts. It is important that we at Trust Payments are aware of booking trends as we look to innovate and collaborate. No surprises on the top 5 booking channels for the hotels but interesting nonetheless: 1 - GDS - One of the first channels to rebound post COVID thanks to the greater influence a TA can have when changes/canx occur along with cost savings 2 - Direct Bookings - The holy grail. Direct bookings help maximise profit by reducing commissions and cost of sale 3 - Channel Connect (incl OTA's) - Channel manager allow better room and inventory control whilst accessing a wider number of channels at low cost 4 - Direct Mobile Bookings - Increased acceptance and expectation from guests to be able to book direct digitally has helped hotels secure demand 5 - IDS #hotels #hospitality #payments #travelpayments #hospitalitypayments #hotelbookings

Great start to the innovation race in 2024 - Spotnana now has a direct API integration with Expedia Group which means corporate travelers can benefit from the rates and benefits they are used to seeing on the Expedia consumer site, directly in the corporate booking engine This is a perfect example of what we mean when we talk about #unbundlingtravel and providing a cloud-native open #travelasaservice platform designed to power innovation across the entire travel industry There is no commercial conflict of interest, and customers literally decide what they want to book based on their own preferences - just the way it should be in an open marketplace - #traveltopia is here

Travelers win with access to the world’s best content. Today we are excited to share that we have built a direct API integration to access Expedia’s inventory of over 700,000 global hotel properties. While Expedia content has been available in Spotnana for a long time, by connecting directly to Expedia’s API, we are now able to offer our customers and partners expanded inventory, improved shopping experiences, self-service changes and cancellations, loyalty rewards at properties that choose to offer this benefit through Expedia, and improved servicing. Business travelers become frustrated and lose faith in their corporate booking tools when they can’t see or access the same content that is available on consumer sites. To solve for this, we designed our Travel-as-a-Service platform to work with any content source and take full advantage of the capabilities available through every partner API. Learn more about how our direct API integration to Expedia further enhances our wide array of hotel content in this blog. Expedia Group #spotnana #businesstravel #travelasaservice #expedia #hotel