For the past 20 years, “industry experts” have been predicting the demise of the travel advisor. Hotel chains began encouraging and incentivizing the traveler to book direct, yet advisors have defied ...

The environment surrounding the tourism industry is constantly changing, and in particular, travelers' information gathering ...

Short-term rental hosts are launching their own direct-booking websites in an effort to diversify their business after years of mounting frustrations with companies such as Airbnb. Some hosts are ...

Google has introduced new search changes that alter how hotel listings and booking options appear in search results, potentially impacting hotels' ability to drive direct bookings and shifting the ...

If you have a Costco membership, you have probably noticed that Costco Travel can make a vacation look suspiciously affordable. Between Digital Costco Shop Cards, vacation packages, rental-car deals, ...

I hope and trust that you will book your next vacation with our firm. But we know there are alternatives out there, and we know you are receiving mailings and seeing ads that often urge you to book ...

Hotels might finally be wresting back some control from OTAs. After years of ceding ground to the online giants, hospitality's online supplier-direct channel is now slightly outpacing OTA bookings, ...

CEO of Lodgify, a vacation rental software that allows rental owners and managers to easily build and grow their own online booking channel. One of the things vacation homeowners love about the rental ...

Photo Credit: Hilton's Stop Clicking Around campaign, which launched in February 2016, encouraged consumers to book direct instead of through online travel agency sites. Hilton Worldwide The bigger ...