Giant List of Online Travel Companies E-Book by White Sky Hospitality
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THE GIANT LIST OF ONLINE TRAVEL COMPANIES BY WHITE SKY HOSPITALITY © WHITE SKY HOSPITALITY 2015 1 The world of hotels and travel is constantly changing. New ideas and business models are replacing existing ones quickly. And this has made finding a quick reference guide to online intermediaries like OTAs difficult. Even hotels with resources are finding it tricky to navigate through this flux. And if you are an independent hotel owner or a sales manager who also is in charge of online distribution, it is even harder. 2 Why is it so important for hotels to understand this online landscape? The reason is simple – the better the understanding of what the right channels are, how they operate and which segments they target, the better the sales reach of the hotel. With dramatic increases in online and mobile hotel bookings, can hotels continue to rely on their traditional understanding of OTAs? We venture not.. 3 We had to answer one question first as we started - what type of companies should and could come under this list? For practical purposes, we have taken the approach that they qualify for the list if they sell inventory as a third party on behalf of the hotel. (again there are exceptions but….) 4 As we started building the list, the need for further classification was clear. What is an online travel agency? Is it just a well known site like Booking.com? Or are group booking sites included? What about metasearch and last minute booking apps? Do airline websites that offer hotel bookings qualify? Or only if they work independently? 5 To address this, we have classified them into broad categories. And then there are those that defy classification. How about Accor hotels for one? Is it a hotel chain or an OTA or a hotel collection or a marketing consortium? Even classification is a moving target! 6 Of course with such a vast array of choices, it brings you to the next and bigger question. What are the parameters that a hotel can and should use to choose the right types of booking intermediaries to work with? This and the evolving world of hotel technology will form related parts of this work. If you would like to know when these are published, just join the list here to be notified. 7 1 GLOBAL OTAs, AIRLINE SITES, 2 EMERGING MARKET HOTEL OTAs, VACATION COLLECTIONS, RENTALS, HOSTELS NICHE OTAs, ITINERARY PLANNING OTAs 3 METASEARCH, DEAL SITES, AUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS SITES, LOYALTY 4 GROUP BOOKING 5 WEBSITES, MEETING MOBILE BOOKING SITES, BUSINESS APPS, INTERNET TRAVEL, DISTRIBUTION WHOLESALERS SYSTEMS, SPECIAL MENTIONS © WHITE SKY HOSPITALITY 2015 8 1 GLOBAL OTAs, AIRLINE SITES, EMERGING MARKET OTAs, VACATION RENTALS, HOSTELS 9 . GLOBAL ONLINE TRAVEL AGENCIES (OTAs) 10 Company Website Agoda www.agoda.com Alpha Rooms www.alpharooms.com Amazon Destinations https://travel.amazon.com/ Asia Rooms www.asiarooms.com Asia Travel www.asiatravel.com Asia Web Direct www.asiawebdirect.com GLOBAL ONLINE TRAVEL Bedbooker www.bedbooker.com AGENCIES Best Hotel Online www.besthotelonline.com Booking.com www.booking.com Bookit www.bookit.com Budget Places www.budgetplaces.com Cheapo Air www.cheapoair.com Cheaptickets www.cheaptickets.com Cleartrip www.cleartrip.com Ctrip http://english.ctrip.com/ 11 Company Website Destinia www.destinia.com Easy to Book www.easytobook.com Ebookers www.ebookers.com Ebooking www.ebooking.com Edreams www.edreams.in Expedia www.expedia.com GLOBAL ONLINE TRAVEL Goibibo www.goibibo.com AGENCIES Holiday City www.holidaycity.com Horse 21 www.horse21.net Hostelbookers www.hostelbookers.com Hostelworld www.hostelworld.com Hotel Direct www.hoteldirect.com Hotel Reservations www.hotelreservations.com Hotel Travel www.hoteltravel.com Hotel.de www.hotel.de 12 Company Website Hotelclub www.hotelclub.com Hotelius www.hotelius.co.uk Hotels.com www.hotels.com Hotels4u www.hotels4u.com HRS www.hrs.com Internet Hotels www.internethotels.com GLOBAL ONLINE TRAVEL Lastminute.com www.lastminute.com AGENCIES Late Deals www.latedeals.co.uk Laterooms www.laterooms.com Logitravel www.logitravel.com Low Cost Holidays www.lowcostholidays.com Make My Trip www.makemytrip.com Make My Trip www.makemytrip.com More Hotels for Less www.morehotels4less.com Mr.Jet www.mrjet.dk 13 Company Website Netflights www.netflights.com One Travel www.onetravel.com Onhotels www.onhotels.com Opodo www.opodo.com Orbitz www.orbitz.com Orbitz www.orbitz.com GLOBAL ONLINE TRAVEL Otel www.otel.com AGENCIES Quikbook www.quikbook.com Rates2go www.ratestogo.com Skoosh www.skoosh.com STA Travel www.statravel.com Think Hotels www.thinkhotels.com Thinkhotels www.thinkhotels.com Travelbag www.travelbag.co.uk Travelgenio www.travelgenio.in 14 Company Website Travelguru www.travelguru.com Travelocity www.travelocity.com Travelrepublic www.travelrepublic.co.uk Vayama www.vayama.com Venere www.venere.com Wego www.wego.co.in GLOBAL www.wotif.com ONLINE TRAVEL Wotif AGENCIES 15 . AIRLINE WEBSITES Many leading airlines have a section which allows travellers to book hotels. Very few of them manage their own hotel inventory and partner with leading OTAs like Booking.com, Expedia and HRS. Listed are popular airlines which have a dedicated hotel booking feature. Also mentioned (where known) are their OTA partners. If your hotel destination is being served by these airlines, then it is worth checking if your hotel is listed on their partner OTAs. 16 Company Website Aer Lingus (ebookers) http://www.aerlingus.com/en Air Asia Go (Expedia) https://www.airasiago.com.my/ Air Berlin (HRS) https://www.airberlin.com/ Air Canada http://www.aircanada.com/en/home.html Air France Travelscape/Expedia) http://www.airfrance.com Alitalia (Travelscape/Expedia) https://www.alitalia.com/ AIRLINE Austrian (HRS) http://www.austrian.com/ WEBSITES British Airways (BAHolidays) http://www.britishairways.com/en Brussels Airlines (Booking.com) http://www.brusselsairlines.com/en Delta http://www.delta.com/ Easyjet (Booking.com) http://www.easyjet.com/en/ Emirates (Tourico) http://www.emirates.com/ Finnair (Booking.com) http://www.finnair.com/ Iberia (BA Holidays) http://www.britishairways.com/en JAL (Hotels.com Booking, Agoda) https://www.ar.jal.com/ 17 Company Website Jet Airways (Travelscape/Exp) http://www.jetairways.com KLM (Booking.com) https://www.klm.com/ Lufthansa (HRS) http://www.lufthansa.com/ Pegasus (Booking.com) http://www.flypgs.com/en/ Qantas http://www.qantas.com.au Qatar Airways (Booking.com) http://www.qatarairways.com AIRLINE Ryan Air (Booking.com) https://www.ryanair.com/ WEBSITES Singapore Airlines (Agoda) https://www.singaporeair.com Swiss (Expedia) https://www.swiss.com/ch/en TAP (Booking.com) http://www.flytap.com Thai (Agoda) http://www.thaiairways.com/ Turkish Airlines (Booking.com) http://www.turkishairlines.com/en United https://www.united.com/ US Airways www.usairways.com Virgin Atlantic (Virgin Holidays) http://www.virgin-atlantic.com 18 . EMERGING MARKET OTAs A very exciting and chaotic arena in the world of travel. Some regions have developed fast like Latin America, China and India – the others offer enormous new opportunities. Some of them can be difficult to work with, as they evolve, but these emerging OTAs play an increasingly important role. 19 Company Website 17U (China) http://www.17u.com/ Africa Bookings (Africa) http://www.africabookings.com/ Alitrip (China) https://www.alitrip.com/ Almundo (Latin America) http://almundo.com.ar/ Atrapalo (Latin America & Spain) http://www.atrapalo.com/ Avantrip (Argentina) http://www.avantrip.com/ EMERGING Check in (Australia) http://www.checkin.com.au/ MARKET OTAs Cocha (Latin America) http://www.cocha.com/ibe/common/home.do Ctrip (China) http://english.ctrip.com/ Decolar (Latin America) http://www.decolar.com/ Despegar (Latin America) http://www.us.despegar.com/ Elong (Expedia) http://elong.net/ ezeego (India) http://www.ezeego1.co.in/ Hoojoozat (Middle East) http://www.hoojoozat.com/ Hotel Urbano (Latin America) https://www.hotelurbano.com/ 20 Company Website Hutchgo (Hongkong) http://travel.hutchgo.com.hk/eng/ Jovago (Africa) http://www.jovago.com/ Klikhotel (Indonesia) http://www.klikhotel.com/ Kuxun (China) http://www.kuxun.cn/ Mango City (China) www.mangocity.com Marplay (Latin America) https://www.marplay.com/ EMERGING Musafir (Middle East) http://in.musafir.com/ MARKET OTAs Ostrovok (Russia) https://ostrovok.ru/ Qunar (China) http://www.qunar.com/ Rakuten (Japan) http://travel.rakuten.com/hotellist/Japan/JP/ Stayzilla (India) https://www.stayzilla.com/ Tiket (Indonesia) http://en.tiket.com/ Traveloka (Indonesia) http://www.traveloka.com/ Via (India) https://in.via.com/ Viajes Falabella (Latin America) http://www.viajesfalabella.cl/ 21 REGIONAL OTAs OTAs based in one region sending travellers to hotels in the same region. 22 Company Website AA (UK) http://www.theaa.com/ Abreu (Portugal) http://www.abreu.pt/Default.aspx Amandatour (Italy) http://www.amandatour.it/ Best Day (Mexico & Carribean) http://www.bestday.com/ Book Today http://www.booktoday.com.au/ Booker Club (Spain) http://www.bookerclub.com/ REGIONAL BSP Hotels (France) http://www.bsp-hotels.com/ OTAs Click4Hotel (Czech, Hungary) http://www.click4hotel.eu/ Derhotel (Germany) http://www.derhotel.com/ Discover Australia (Australia) http://www.discoveraustralia.com.au/ Hotels UK http://www.hotels.uk.com Hoterip (Indonesia) http://hoterip.com/ Infotel (UK) http://www.infotel.co.uk/ Jalan (Japan) http://www.jalan.net/en/japan_hotels_ryokan/ Japan Traveller Online (Japan) https://japantraveleronline.com/ 23 Company Website Japanican (Japan) http://www.japanican.com/en/ Love to Escape (UK) http://www.lovetoescape.com/ Need to Escape http://www.needtoescape.com/ Nivalink (India) http://www.nivalink.com/india Quickbeds (Australia) http://www.quickbeds.com/ Superbreak (UK) www.superbreak.com REGIONAL Tiscover (Austria, Germany) http://www.tiscover.com/ OTAs Travelcheck (Germany) http://www.travelcheck.de/ Travelstay (London) http://www.travelstay.com/ 24 . VACATION RENTAL WEBSITES This is the segment that made AirBnB legendary. There are many more companies in the fray now. It is also considered one of the fastest growing segments in online travel in 2015.