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All talk, or reclaiming control? Europe’s legal battles against Booking.com
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Top 10 takeaways from Direct Booking Summit Dallas: What hotel teams need to know
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How does ChatGPT’s AI Agent, Operator, feel about your booking engine?
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AI Agents and automation: Streamlining manual reporting at Lotte Hotels
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Quick hotel strategy tips: Must-read insights for April '25
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Perplexity AI introduces new hotel search agent
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Quick hotel strategy tips: Must-read insights for March '25 (Part 2)
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Win more direct bookings this Easter: 5 top tips for increasing website conversion
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Quick hotel strategy tips: Must-read insights for March '25 (Part 1)
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ITB 2025: Top takeaways and tips for hotels
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The end of Google’s commission based metasearch: The experts weigh in
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The Direct Booking Summit: Helping hotels reduce OTA reliance
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6 hotel marketing trends for 2025 – and how you can take advantage of them
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Quick hotel strategy tips: Must-read insights for Feb '25
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AI for Hoteliers: Boost your travel blog’s SEO & drive more traffic
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Are “10 blue links” the future of Google metasearch?
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Quick hotel strategy tips: Must-read insights for Jan '25 (Part 2)
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Quick hotel strategy tips: Must-read insights for Jan '25
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The FTC has banned “junk fees” in the US: What does that mean for hotels?
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Booking.com’s DMA workshop: Stakeholders weigh in on the OTA’s approach
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[Free guide] Is Travel Tuesday the new Black Friday for hoteliers?
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Booking.com’s DMA approach: A bit more transparency, but not much else
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WTM London 2024: AI, Digital Marketing, and Business Travel Trends
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Booking.com’s DMA deadline is approaching — what can hoteliers expect?
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Hotel member rates: Should they stay or should they go?
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How hotels are displaying resort fees in the wake of CA’s Junk Fee Law
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New EU ruling marks the end of Booking’s price parity clauses
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Is Expedia's Automatic Rate Match worth it? What hotels need to know
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Metasearch findings: When deeper discounts don't win the click
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Booking.com, Google and the Digital Markets Act
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California’s “Junk Fee Law”: What it is, and what it means for hotels
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Google kills metasearch commission bidding (CPA): What next?
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Booking’s algorithm is changing — how should hoteliers adapt?
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[Video] How to have a ‘Million dollar month’ with Schulte Hotels
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Five options for hotels on commission-based (CPA) metasearch models
Read more![[Video] What is Google's Performance Max for Travel Goals?](https://www.triptease.com/hubfs/Resources%20-%20feature%20images/Feature-Image_%5B%5BVideo%5D%20What%20is%20commission%20bidding%20%28CPA%29%20and%20why%20is%20Google%20removing%20it_%5D.png "[Video] What is Google's Performance Max for Travel Goals?")
[Video] What is Google's Performance Max for Travel Goals?
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Hotelier’s view: Performance Max & Google removing commission bidding
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What is commission bidding (CPA) and why is Google removing it?
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[Webinar] Google kills CPA: How hotels can still win on metasearch
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Video: Experts discuss Google's metasearch CPA announcement
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Download the Direct Booking Summit Chicago Key Learnings Report
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An end to unfair practices: New laws to rein in power of OTAs
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What hoteliers need to know from the Google Travel Partner Summit
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Hoteliers: fix your first-party data issues before it’s too late
Read more![[WATCH] The Future of Google Travel](https://www.triptease.com/hubfs/Resources%20-%20feature%20images/Feature-Image_%5B%5BWATCH%5D%20The%20Future%20of%20Google%20Travel%5D.png "[WATCH] The Future of Google Travel")
[WATCH] The Future of Google Travel
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Are we entering the ‘diamond age’ of travel?
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Benchmark your hotel booking engine performance
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Google’s predictions: International travel, bigger budgets & loyalty
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Triptease voted 'Best Direct Booking Tool' for a third year running
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Are you paying Booking.com's marketing budget?
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Hotel staff shortage? Your direct booking strategy can help
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Having the best rate on metasearch can triple bookings
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7 ways hotel guests have changed (and how to get them to book direct)
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The impact of Google's new 'free hotel booking links'
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How booking habits, device preferences, and lead time are all changing
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COVID-19 and how Asia-Pacific hoteliers can respond in times of crisis
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Agoda eases inventory access: No difference between B2B and B2C rates
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Amoma ceases trading: The cheapest price doesn't guarantee conversion
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Director Of Business Development at Baur au Lac speaks about OTAs
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Making the industry stronger and more resilient than ever before
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Google seems to be taking over the role OTAs play in the guest journey
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Proven: Booking.com-style personalization works for hotels
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The Direct Booking Summit: Asia-Pacific opens its doors
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We need a revolution in thinking about wholesalers
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[WATCH] Unlocking value from every channel - including the OTAs
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How to get your hotel's marketing and revenue teams to collaborate
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The rise of reservation re-sale (and why Airbnb is involved)
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Are TripAdvisor's Sponsored Placements a good idea?
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Airbnb and parity: What hoteliers need to know
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Hoteliers beware — Airbnb is no distraction for Booking.com
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Triptease is a HotelTechAwards winner!
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Blockchain for hotels: What you need to know (and what you don't)
Read more![[WATCH] Big data isn't scary — here's how all hotels can use it](https://www.triptease.com/hubfs/Resources%20-%20feature%20images/Feature-Image_%5B%5BWATCH%5D%20Big%20data%20isnt%20scary%20%E2%80%94%20heres%20how%20all%20hotels%20can%20use%20it%5D.png "[WATCH] Big data isn't scary — here's how all hotels can use it")
[WATCH] Big data isn't scary — here's how all hotels can use it
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OTA commissions are up, but you're still winning. Here's why...
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Direct bookings via OTAs - they might be closer than we think
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Direct bookers are bigger spenders
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Legislating against OTAs: does it ever work?
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Bundeskartellamt: Booking.com's 'best price' clauses anticompetitive
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