Amazon’s New Hotel Business Begins to Take Shape | skift.com

Amazon has begun to broaden the way it works with hotels using the precise business model that Skift reported in November that it would. In the past couple of weeks Amazon Local updated its iOS and Android apps and began on-boarding a handful of independent hotels offering their rooms at published rates, which is a big departure from the steeply discounted, distressed inventory that has been the mainstay of Amazon Local over the past couple of...