Online Travel Agencies (OTA) Filter Supplier News The top 3 OTA trends of 2025 and how hoteliers should adapt The pace of innovation at online travel agencies (OTAs) continues to accelerate, transforming how travelers discover, plan and book their stays. For independent hotels and B&Bs, these changes can bring both opportunity and pressure. Lighthouse More in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category Lodging Industry More like this Opinion The New AI-OTA War: Why AI is Scraping Your Data to Kill Your Direct Channel The hospitality industry is facing an immediate and existential competitive threat unlike any seen since the rise of the OTAs. In the past, your website data was a marketing expense; today, it has become the primary fuel source for the next generati... Mark FancourtCo-Founder at TRAVHOTECH TRAVHOTECHMore in this category Revenue ManagementMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA) More like this Opinion The day OTAs started revenue managing... Revenue Managers I had one of those “wait, what?” moments this week. It’s not new new but stuck with me. Fabian BartnickFounder at Infinito InfinitoMore in this category Revenue ManagementMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA) More like this Supplier News The budget paradox: Why do hotels cap direct booking budgets but give OTAs unlimited spend? Most hotels fund their distribution channels in a way that doesn’t add up. Lighthouse More in this category Sales & MarketingMore in this category Revenue ManagementMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA) More like this Press Release Expedia Group B2B Supercharges Partner Growth With New AI-Powered Trip Planner and Multiple APIs During its EXPLORE Connect B2B event for APAC partners, Expedia Group unveiled a new suite of AI and machine learning-powered tools designed to help partners drive speed, scale and personalization. Highlights include Smart Trip AI™, a new trip plann... Expedia Group, Inc. More in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category Innovation More like this Supplier News Shiji proudly announces Iceportal Content surpasses 2.5M images distributed globally Shiji, the global hospitality technology leader, is proud to announce that its hotel content distribution and management platform, Iceportal Content has reached live distribution of over 2.5 million hotel images globally, marking a major milestone i... Shiji Group More in this category Property TechnologyMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category Content Marketing More like this Press Release Booking.com Debuts Agentic AI Innovations, Adding to its Robust Suite of GenAI Tools for Customers Today, Booking.com has announced the launch of its first customer-facing agentic AI innovations: Smart Messenger and Auto-Reply, designed to make partner-to-guest communication faster, streamlined, and more intuitive. Booking.com More in this category Sales & MarketingMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category InnovationMore in this category Chatbots, Robotics & AI More like this Supplier News HotelRunner and Visa Partner Globally to Power Embedded and Autonomous Finance in Travel Uniting the strength of Visa’s trusted infrastructure with HotelRunner’s deep presence in hospitality, this strategic preferred partnership sets the foundation for a new era of embedded finance in travel. By bringing Visa’s products directly into Ho... HotelRunner More in this category FinanceMore in this category Travel TechnologyMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category Partnerships, Mergers & Acquisitions More like this Opinion The Great Tech Reset: Agentic AI and the Coming Rebalance of Power in Hospitality The hospitality industry stands on the precipice of its most profound disruption since the internet. It’s an existential shift, driven by Agentic AI, and it threatens to dismantle the decades-old power structure of hotel distribution. For years, hot... Mark FancourtCo-Founder at TRAVHOTECH TRAVHOTECHMore in this category Sales & MarketingMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category Chatbots, Robotics & AI More like this Supplier News Lighthouse launches Smart Distribution to automate pricing and channel management for independent hotels Lighthouse, the leading commercial platform for travel and hospitality, today announced Smart Distribution, an AI-powered feature that automatically optimizes pricing and distribution across booking channels for independent hotels. Lighthouse More in this category Sales & MarketingMore in this category Travel TechnologyMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA) More like this The Hotel Yearbook 2025 - Tech Edition Navigating Current Innovation and Future Breakthroughs Explore Your content on Hospitality Net? Hospitality Net membership explained
Supplier News The top 3 OTA trends of 2025 and how hoteliers should adapt The pace of innovation at online travel agencies (OTAs) continues to accelerate, transforming how travelers discover, plan and book their stays. For independent hotels and B&Bs, these changes can bring both opportunity and pressure. Lighthouse More in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category Lodging Industry More like this
Opinion The New AI-OTA War: Why AI is Scraping Your Data to Kill Your Direct Channel The hospitality industry is facing an immediate and existential competitive threat unlike any seen since the rise of the OTAs. In the past, your website data was a marketing expense; today, it has become the primary fuel source for the next generati... Mark FancourtCo-Founder at TRAVHOTECH TRAVHOTECHMore in this category Revenue ManagementMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA) More like this
Opinion The day OTAs started revenue managing... Revenue Managers I had one of those “wait, what?” moments this week. It’s not new new but stuck with me. Fabian BartnickFounder at Infinito InfinitoMore in this category Revenue ManagementMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA) More like this
Supplier News The budget paradox: Why do hotels cap direct booking budgets but give OTAs unlimited spend? Most hotels fund their distribution channels in a way that doesn’t add up. Lighthouse More in this category Sales & MarketingMore in this category Revenue ManagementMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA) More like this
Press Release Expedia Group B2B Supercharges Partner Growth With New AI-Powered Trip Planner and Multiple APIs During its EXPLORE Connect B2B event for APAC partners, Expedia Group unveiled a new suite of AI and machine learning-powered tools designed to help partners drive speed, scale and personalization. Highlights include Smart Trip AI™, a new trip plann... Expedia Group, Inc. More in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category Innovation More like this
Supplier News Shiji proudly announces Iceportal Content surpasses 2.5M images distributed globally Shiji, the global hospitality technology leader, is proud to announce that its hotel content distribution and management platform, Iceportal Content has reached live distribution of over 2.5 million hotel images globally, marking a major milestone i... Shiji Group More in this category Property TechnologyMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category Content Marketing More like this
Press Release Booking.com Debuts Agentic AI Innovations, Adding to its Robust Suite of GenAI Tools for Customers Today, Booking.com has announced the launch of its first customer-facing agentic AI innovations: Smart Messenger and Auto-Reply, designed to make partner-to-guest communication faster, streamlined, and more intuitive. Booking.com More in this category Sales & MarketingMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category InnovationMore in this category Chatbots, Robotics & AI More like this
Supplier News HotelRunner and Visa Partner Globally to Power Embedded and Autonomous Finance in Travel Uniting the strength of Visa’s trusted infrastructure with HotelRunner’s deep presence in hospitality, this strategic preferred partnership sets the foundation for a new era of embedded finance in travel. By bringing Visa’s products directly into Ho... HotelRunner More in this category FinanceMore in this category Travel TechnologyMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category Partnerships, Mergers & Acquisitions More like this
Opinion The Great Tech Reset: Agentic AI and the Coming Rebalance of Power in Hospitality The hospitality industry stands on the precipice of its most profound disruption since the internet. It’s an existential shift, driven by Agentic AI, and it threatens to dismantle the decades-old power structure of hotel distribution. For years, hot... Mark FancourtCo-Founder at TRAVHOTECH TRAVHOTECHMore in this category Sales & MarketingMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA)More in this category Chatbots, Robotics & AI More like this
Supplier News Lighthouse launches Smart Distribution to automate pricing and channel management for independent hotels Lighthouse, the leading commercial platform for travel and hospitality, today announced Smart Distribution, an AI-powered feature that automatically optimizes pricing and distribution across booking channels for independent hotels. Lighthouse More in this category Sales & MarketingMore in this category Travel TechnologyMore in this category Online Travel Agencies (OTA) More like this