The rate sheet is only one part of a tour operator contract. This guide explains how to check marketing contributions, liability clauses, payment security and currency rules before the next season.
Choose the right payment term for your direct bookings. This guide explains prepayment, deposits, and card guarantees, and how to record them correctly.
Understand how rate parity clauses tie price, availability, and conditions across channels. This guide explains the 2017 Türkiye Competition Board decision and the EU Digital Markets Act rules.
Turn hotel reservation inquiries into confirmed bookings with a fast reply standard and clear quotes. Learn to record inquiries, take deposits safely, and measure conversion rates.
This guide explains how to read OTA hotel contracts, manage extranet controls, and define channel roles. Learn about payment models, compliance duties, and how to judge each booking site by net revenue.
A Google Business Profile is the free listing Google shows for a hotel. Learn how to claim it, keep facts identical to your certificate, and point the booking link to your own site to avoid paying commission on direct guests.
Discover how to manage hotel prices on Google through Hotel Center. Learn the rules for free booking links and paid ads, and run a weekly check to prevent listing suspensions.
Compare hotel booking engines by asking about inventory sync, payment methods, and legal compliance. This guide lists the questions to ask providers before you sign.
Gross revenue ignores what you gave up to win a guest. This guide shows how to build a distribution cost sheet from your contracts and statements to rank channels by net revenue per stayed room night.
Dependence is a control question, not a percentage. This guide shows how to measure your hotel's channel mix, stress-test it against partner changes, and rebalance gradually.
This guide explains the difference between hotel collect and OTA collect models. It details how to charge an OTA virtual card within its limits and reconcile payouts.
A channel manager sends data, but the extranet shows what guests actually see. This guide details a 15-minute morning routine to verify bookings, rates, promotions, messages and payments.