Skip your travel agent and those comparison booking sites. That's what more hotels want you to do, and they're pulling out all the stops to persuade you to do it. But should you? Travelers like Tom ...

Hotels are experiencing a decline in their direct booking share due to the significant increase in marketing expenditures by OTAs. According to hospitality technology experts, the competition for ...

Efforts by the lodging industry to enable business travelers to book their negotiated rates online directly with hotels took a step forward this summer when Radisson SAS began promoting its Corporate ...

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, ...

SINGAPORE — Hotels in Singapore are stepping up efforts to book guests directly and cut down on commissions paid to online travel agents (OTA) even as the agents remain vital to the hospitality ...