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Tourism Boom: How Spain’s Hotels Are Capitalizing by Owning Their Supply
Mateus Coelho | November 8, 2017
By Mateus Coelho "In today's world, either you change or you will be changed. So, either you act and then you make some hard decisions and take some risk … or somebody is going to be acting for you – that's somebody called Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, Google, Amazon, Facebook." They're the words of Sébastien Bazin, CEO of AccorHotels, who spoke at this year's South America Hotel Investment Conference on the need for hotels to take control – or risk losing their place in the driver's seat. According to MicroMetrics, OTAs now have access to more than 99 percent of the world's hotel inventory. This, alone, isn't ...
Why Hotel Distribution Is No Longer a Job, but a Button
Mateus Coelho | July 6, 2017
By Mateus Coelho, Regional Manager – Iberia and Brazil, SiteMinder I read an article recently about the slow demise of publishing. It looked into how publishing is hardly still an industry in today's day and age, thanks to platforms such as Wordpress which have empowered anybody, from any professional background, based anywhere in the world, to be a publisher of their own content – to a mass audience and in an instant, no less. It made me wonder whether – or, rather, hope that – one day soon, I'd be reading a similar article about the demise of slow, onerous and manual data entry at hotels. As both someone who fl...
