Articles tagged “distribution”

Airlines

Turkish Airlines Is Pulling Fares From Sabre as it Pushes Direct Bookings

Turkish Airlines is ruffling feathers as it pushes for direct bookings starting in October. American Airlines failed an attempt for a similar strategy this year, which surely will inform the execution for Turkish.

Justin Dawes | 3 weeks ago

Turkish Airlines Is Pulling Fares From Sabre as it Pushes Direct Bookings

Airlines

The Secret Sauce Behind Ryanair’s ‘Controlled’ Ticket Sales Through Online Travel Agencies

Ryanair approved a handful of online travel agency partners, and it's verifying the details booking by booking.

Dennis Schaal | 4 weeks ago

The Secret Sauce Behind Ryanair’s ‘Controlled’ Ticket Sales Through Online Travel Agencies

Business Travel

Hotel Chains Bet on New Ways of Selling to Corporate Travelers

Hotel chains are quietly planning to shift their distribution strategies, aiming to bypass traditional intermediaries and boost direct bookings from corporate travel buyers. But with billions at stake, expect fights from legacy players.

Sean O'Neill | 4 weeks ago

Hotel Chains Bet on New Ways of Selling to Corporate Travelers

Airlines

American Airlines Seeks to Repair Travel Agency Ties After Direct Bookings Strategy

American reintroduced its fares to the channels where travel agencies want to book them, and Isom acknowledged their absence was their biggest "pain point." The airline, too, will be feeling pain for some time.

Dennis Schaal | 2 months ago

American Airlines Seeks to Repair Travel Agency Ties After Direct Bookings Strategy

Experiences

Lastminute.com Starts Adding TUI Group’s Travel Experiences to Packages

Lastminute.com Group's deal with TUI Musement will enable more travelers to book tours and activities as an add-on to flight-plus-hotel packages.

Jesse Chase-Lubitz | 3 months ago

Lastminute.com Starts Adding TUI Group’s Travel Experiences to Packages

Airlines

American Airlines’ Distribution Disaster: IATA Chief Willie Walsh Weighs In

Speaking to Skift, the former British Airways CEO gave his informed perspective on the problems at American Airlines.

Gordon Smith | 4 months ago

American Airlines’ Distribution Disaster: IATA Chief Willie Walsh Weighs In

Airlines

American Airlines Backtracks, Will Allow Travel Agency Customers to Keep Earning Miles

American Airlines tried to drag an entrenched industry toward the airline's vision of a more productive distribution future. But the financial hit stung.

Dennis Schaal | 4 months ago

American Airlines Backtracks, Will Allow Travel Agency Customers to Keep Earning Miles

Short-Term Rentals

Guesty, Short-Term Rental Software Provider, Acquires Rentals United

The short-term rental space is fragmented to the hilt. We'll probably see more channel managers like Rentals United consolidating or seeing their businesses dry up.

Dennis Schaal | 5 months ago

Guesty, Short-Term Rental Software Provider, Acquires Rentals United

Hotels

Skift Research Scraped 20,000 Google Hotel Listings: Here’s What We Found

We web-scraped 20k+ hotels listed on Google across the U.S., Europe, Asia and Middle East to understand which online travel agencies and direct sites compete for bookings in Google's sponsored and organic listings.

Pranavi Agarwal | 5 months ago

Skift Research Scraped 20,000 Google Hotel Listings: Here’s What We Found

Travel Technology

DerbySoft Acquires Pkfare and Expands into Airline Industry

DerbySoft is one of those companies that lives in the background of the travel industry but plays an important role. It's behind the online sales for many hotels, and now it is for airlines, too.

Justin Dawes | 5 months ago

DerbySoft Acquires Pkfare and Expands into Airline Industry