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We all agree that the main concept of ​​a metasearch engine is to compare and find the best rates, right? Well, we may be wrong. Up until only 10 years ago, there were dozens of OTAs, each one specialized in a niche market. But, over the years, these OTAs have been acquired, integrated or simply merged under Booking and Expedia's brands. Today, digital distribution is, de facto, a duopoly. And with only two OTAs sharing almost 100% of online transactions, what exactly a metasearch engine should do?

We are the last generation with scraped knees. Next one will make no difference between on and off-line reality

Web Agencies Are Responsible For Pretty Much Every Single Halo Effect In Our Industry

We, as a species, tend to over-generalize. That’s why our marketing strategies often suck

We Don't Search Anymore. Algorithms Do It For -and Better Than- Us. We Became Passive-aggressive Web Users

We don't practice hospitality to point other people to ourselves, our church, or even our beliefs. We practice hospitality to point people toward the ultimate welcome that God gives every person through Christ.

We should not regard what a man is and what he deserves: but we should go higher – that it is God who has placed us in the world for such a purpose that we be united and joined together. He has impressed his image in us and has given us a common nature, which should incite us to providing one for the other. The man who wishes to exempt himself from providing for his neighbors should face himself and declare that he no longer wishes to be a man, for as long as we are human creatures we must contemplate as in a mirror our face in those who are poor, despised, exhausted, who groan under their burdens . .

We would sit down fifteen, sometimes twenty, to the table on seder nights: my parents; the maiden aunts - Birdie, Len, and before the war, Dora, sometimes Annie; cousins of varying degree, visiting from France or Switzerland; and always a stranger or two would come. There was a beautiful, embroidered tablecloth which Annie had brought us from Jerusalem, gleaming white and gold on the table. My mother, knowing that sooner or later there would be accidents, always had a preemptive "spill" herself - she would manage somehow, very early in the evening, to tip a bottle of red wine onto the tablecloth, and thereafter no guest would be embarrassed if they knocked over a glass. Though I know she did this deliberately, I could never predict how or when the "accident" would occur; it always looked absolutely spontaneous and authentic. (She would immediately spread salt on he wine stain, and it became much paler, almost disappearing; I wondered why salt had this power.)

We show hospitality to strangers not merely because they need it, but because we need it, too. The stranger at the door is the living symbol and memory that we are all strangers here. This is not our house, our table, our food, our lodging; this is God's house and table and food and lodging. We were pilgrims and wanderers, aliens and strangers, even enemies of God, but we, too, were welcomed into this place. To show hospitality to the stranger is, as Gordon Lathrop has observed, to say, "We are beggars here together. Grace will surprise us both.

What could be the next steps in travel for Amazon? Very likely, acquisitions. Expedia stock value dropped from over 150$ to 110$ in one year and, with 1:14 stock ratio (Amazon stock reached an astonishing 1,400$), the acquisition would give Bezos the technology and know-how necessary to forcefully enter the travel landscape and compete with Google. trivago is another possible choice: last June the German metasearch engine was worth over 20$ a share, over 3 times the current value (6$). And what about TripAdvisor? It may have found a new youth with the new feed-based design, but it is still worth half of what it used to be 4 years ago. All those investments would be possible for Amazon, a company with a capitalization of over 1,000 billion dollars

What could be the next steps for Amazon? Very likely, acquisitions. Expedia stock value dropped from over $150 to $110 in one year and, with 1:14 stock ratio (Amazon stock reached an astonishing $1,400), the acquisition would give Bezos the technology and know-how necessary to forcefully enter the travel landscape and compete with Google.

What we are likely to see is AI working together with humans, not AI replacing humans

What I Love About Quality Is That It Is Completely Emotionless And Unbiased

What I Do Is 100% Measurable. Not 99%. Not 99.9%. 100%

When I Am Not Sure, I Work. And If I Am Still Not Sure, I Work A Little More. At The End I May Still Not Be Sure, But At Least I Got A Lot Done

When experts with similar ideas are put together in a group, their ideas become even more aligned. That’s where expertise becomes ideology. And that’s when the sh*t hits the fan

When Hyper - Personalization Becomes The Norm, Filter-bubbles Are Inevitable

When I don’t know what to do, I work. And, if I still haven’t figured it out, I work some more.

When it comes to hotel check-in, self-service is best service

When it comes to hotels, photography should be able to sell a specific product: your rooms

When it comes to OTAs, most hotels are stuck with their us-versus-them mentality.

When it comes to web design, listening solely to the hotel’s requests can put the whole website project in jeopardy, as hoteliers, who spend most of their day in the confined space of the four walls of their hotels, tend to develop a “partial blindness”: they often take the stronger features of their hotel for granted and they give an unjustifiably high value to some trivial characteristic.

When we love our hate, we stop hating. Love always wins. To love hatred means to welcome it. It doesn’t mean that we should do what it tells us to do, but we shouldn’t suppress it either. When we love hatred we put ourselves out of the process of hatred, and love begins.

When Si Will Eventually Take Over, Artisanal Handicraft Will Be The Ultimate Luxury

When we compulsively accumulate miles and points, we are mainly lead by our own body chemistry. When we get a reward our bodies release dopamine, a substance that plays an important role in human behavior.

When uploading a photo of your hotel online, you are the eyes (and the wallet) of your future guests, so don’t take it lightly

When uploading a photo of your hotel online, you are the eyes of your guests.

Within certain limits, the difference between a €100 site and a €3,000 one is almost nil. When you decide to create or renew your website, the question should always be: what will my booking cost per acquisition be?

While many hoteliers and marketers still look at social media as an ROI tool, it should be looked at primarily as a communication platform to engage with guests and potential guests. Hotels that are built with social elements in their DNA may receive more reservations through social media but that is a positive side-effect that one should consider as a bonus and not the main goal.

Will invest in smart rooms, eventually, be sustainable for hoteliers? Technology adoption at this level can be gimmicky at best and it can rapidly become obsolete at worst

With a comprehensive overview of the properties, advanced filters, rates, availability and both aggregated and native reviews, photos (and a worldwide coverage), why should a user exit the Google SERP and go on an OTA or (God forbid!) a brand.com?

Without Change The "New Coke Disaster" Could Have Been Prevented. But Avoiding Risks Tout Court Is The Highway To Irrelevancy

Without standard, shared languages, open APIs and predefined protocols for cross-software integration, no effective automation will ever be possible in hospitality, especially with legacy software, where integrations remain expensive, slow and complex processes

Without knowing it, you probably passed a variation of the Turing Test a few times today already. Yes, because a derivation of the imitation game is the “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” (CAPTCHA)

Your USP is never what you think it is. It is what your customer think it is.

Your best marketing strategy should not necessarily be tactically correct, but that it should make your competitive set feel uncomfortable

Your Opinions Shape The Web. Then The Web Shapes You. Digital Personalization Is Our Safe, Cozy, Dull Place

You can have good or you can have cheap, but you cannot have both.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

A table-full of welcome!

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.