 Miami, Florida –
July 16, 2009 - The CEO of
AboutAnywhere.com, Ashwin Kamlani, will be discussing the struggle
between
third party channels and hotels with the Chief Marketing Officer of
Orbitz, the
Senior VP of Lodging of Expedia, and the Senior Director of Global
Online Sales
& Distribution of Starwood Hotels & Resorts at the
EyeForTravel’s
Travel Distribution Summit conference being held in Chicago beginning
the 16th
of September. The opening keynote session of the conference is
entitled “The Distribution Landscape:
Who's Running
the Show Now - Suppliers or OTAs?”“OTAs have significantly contributed to the distribution strategies of hotels by providing them the option of paying high commissions for capturing demand generated by multi-million dollar marketing campaigns and strong brands,” observes Mr. Kamlani. “However, there are many hotels that do not understand how to efficiently and effectively use the power of the OTAs. Hotels that fill a room with an OTA customer when the same room could have been filled with a direct booking, are guilty of not managing their channels correctly and therefore are missing out on valuable revenue.” Since AboutAnywhere.com’s objective is to provide hotels with a more cost effective method of obtaining comparison shoppers directly through their own websites, the discussion promises to be an interesting one. For more information on the conference, please visit: http://events.eyefortravel.com/tdsusa/conference/ For more information or to add your hotel, click here: www.AboutAnywhere.com/Add-Your-Hotel/ About AboutAnywhere.com AboutAnywhere.com is a hotel referral website. Founded by Danish entrepreneur Morten Sondergaard, it is the only hotel website where hotels can join for free and receive direct bookings without paying any fees or commissions. AboutAnywhere.com is a UK based company with offices in London and Miami.
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