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Friday, August 20, 2010This Week In Hotels #8 (Hotel Distribution, Direct vs. OTAs, Freemium vs. Free)

In this week episode #8 of This Week in Hotels, Josiah and I discuss:

Section 1: Back and Forth

- the balance of indirect distribution vs direct distribution

- is it possible to work without online travel agents

- how to you keep you hotel website the best channel for the best rates

- thoughts on the latest article of Wired founder Chris Anderson The Web Is Dead, Long Live the Internet

- freemium model vs. free

- Twitter applications (Seesmic, Tweetdeck, HootSuite)

Section 2: Hotel site review analysis

- this week we are reviewing Mafia Island Hotel resort website

Section 3: Questions from the audience

- no questions this week but feel free to throw some at us for next week show by using our Twitter accounts @hotelblogs and @HMarketingHelp

Prefer the mp3 to listen while exercising or commuting? I do, too. Here’s the download.

For next week, we would appreciate if you could send us:

story ideasquestions you havewebsites to review and analyze

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TRIPADVISOR DIRECT LINK IS ONE OF THE BEST LInk
we use it for our two hotels and this is really powerful

all you say in your analys is 100 % right that is what I do evryday and that work , regarding the security I recommend you bookassit they have the pci

Posted by: SI HOCINE |Friday, August 20, 2010 at 03:52 PM

@Si Hocine - thanks for sharing your view on your experience with TripAdvisor. Are most booking engines PCI compliant?

Posted by:Guillaume Thevenot |Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 06:56 AM

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