Travelgate Blog

Today’s travellers will do their research on a destination through consulting the Internet, reading other people’s comments and opinions as well as taking on the advice of family and friends before actually visiting the place. 

Could you imagine what would happen to those of us working in the hotel sector if Channel Managers did not exist? It would be absolutely crazy, for sure. Channel Managers are a key day-to-day tool that enables us to manage rooms and rates through hundreds of different channels without dying in the attempt. 
Since Channel Managers are an indispensable part of our work we have to know exactly how to choose one: these days there are plenty of them and even if they all have the same basic characteristics, each of them has its own features that can be adjusted – or not – to our business needs.

There are so many destination specialists (DMCs) out there in this world with the most amazing, direct product but who find it difficult to expand their client range as they don’t have their own API. For the Buyers, the only way to access this specialized product is for the DMC to manually load & update their product on the Buyer’s system. But of course, to the DMC, this means countless hours loading and updating multiple systems for their various clients.

HospitalityUnited.Club, a consortium of travel technology companies, will be hosting a webinar to look at how businesses can respond to and recover from the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and prepare for recovery. The webinar will bring together industry leaders to come together and discuss the evolving business landscape and explore new ways of doing business.

The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the world economy. The increase in the number of cases around the world and the uncertainty generated after the international alert declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) has caused the trend of travel reservations to fall.

This is likely to be one of many messages we have all received about the current Coronavirus situation, specially those of us working in the travel industry. We are all going through a period of massive uncertainty without a clear end in sight.