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Hotel member rates: Should they stay or should they go?

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How hotels are displaying resort fees in the wake of CA’s Junk Fee Law

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New EU ruling marks the end of Booking’s price parity clauses

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Price Matching: OTAs are doing it, should you?

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The tricky world of metasearch: trivago's balancing act

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Is Expedia's Automatic Rate Match worth it? What hotels need to know

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Hotelier’s guide to turning email into a high performing channel

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Metasearch findings: When deeper discounts don't win the click

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Booking.com, Google and the Digital Markets Act

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California’s “Junk Fee Law”: What it is, and what it means for hotels

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Google kills metasearch commission bidding (CPA): What next?

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How hotels can increase their mobile booking conversion rates

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Booking’s algorithm is changing — how should hoteliers adapt?

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CPC or CPA on Metasearch: Which one's right for you?

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The end of OTA undercuts: How hotels can win the pricing battle

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Download The Hotelier’s Guide to Fixing your Parity

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[Video] How to have a ‘Million dollar month’ with Schulte Hotels

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Five options for hotels on commission-based (CPA) metasearch models

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[Video] What is Google's Performance Max for Travel Goals?

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[Video] What is Target Return on Ad Spend (tROAS)?

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Hotelier’s view: Performance Max & Google removing commission bidding

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[Video] What is commission bidding (CPA) and why is Google removing it?

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Boost your hotel's online visibility: SEO success in 30 minutes

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[Webinar] Google kills CPA: How hotels can still win on metasearch

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Rethinking metasearch budgets in the response to Google's CPA changes

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Video: Experts discuss Google's metasearch CPA announcement

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Game over OTAs? 8 innovations to drive direct bookings in 2024

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A product that pays for itself: 13X ROI with automated emails

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Who's undercutting you on Metasearch? Free parity health check

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Two ways hotels can use email data to convert potential guests

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7 ways to automate great hotel booking journeys this Black Friday

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Download the Direct Booking Summit Chicago Key Learnings Report

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The Hoteliers’ Guide to Metasearch Pricing in 2024

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New Metasearch undercut data: How does your hotel benchmark?

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Maximizing returns: Navigating budgets and costs in hotel Paid Search

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Two ways your booking engine leaks revenue (and how to fix it)

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An end to unfair practices: New laws to rein in power of OTAs

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McDreams Hotels doubles their CTR with Price Match on Metasearch

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Free Guide: Improve your metasearch strategy and boost revenue

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Save time with Triptease. Let ChatGPT write your On-site Messages

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What hoteliers need to know from the Google Travel Partner Summit

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Automatically send enriched pre-booking customer data to Salesforce

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Hoteliers: fix your first-party data issues before it’s too late

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Metasearch parity solved: Increase bookings by 33%

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Introducing the Triptease Data Marketing Platform

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How to beat OTAs without the billion dollar budget

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A new Parity product for a changing booking landscape

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Triptease partners with Revinate to capture more hotel guest data

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The Hotelier’s Guide to Wholesalers has arrived

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Google Analytics expert guide: Full funnel tracking for hotels

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How to eliminate OTA price undercutting on hotel metasearch

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Metasearch costs are rising - here’s how hoteliers can prepare

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Run your own Booking.com Flash Deal - without the commission fee

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[WATCH] The Future of Google Travel

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Outperform OTAs with the ultimate guide to hotel metasearch

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[WATCH] What’s new in 2022? Hotel Rate Parity Trends

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[WATCH] How hotels can win on Paid Search in 2022

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NEW DATA: How often are you being undercut on metasearch?

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What is hotel metasearch?

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Are we entering the ‘diamond age’ of travel?

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Parity is a game changer for your hotel - Interview with Chris Peppers

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Parity is bigger than your booking engine - are you monitoring the right price sources?

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Hotel paid search strategy: the importance of branded keywords

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How hotels can improve ROI from non-branded paid search

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Benchmark your hotel booking engine performance

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Google’s predictions: International travel, bigger budgets & loyalty

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Triptease voted 'Best Direct Booking Tool' for a third year running

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6 ways to create memorable guest experiences

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Parity Boost: How to be #1 in Google Hotel Ads when it matters

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Are you paying Booking.com's marketing budget?

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Hotel staff shortage? Your direct booking strategy can help

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Having the best rate on metasearch can triple bookings

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7 ways hotel guests have changed (and how to get them to book direct)

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Free guide: How Covid-19 is changing hotel user experience design

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[Masterclass] How Covid-19 is changing hotel UX design

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NEW DATA: Is your booking engine working hard enough for your hotel?

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Metasearch: The rate parity battleground

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Triptease Convert: Powering hotel recovery across desktop and mobile

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Is your metasearch strategy optimized for the travel rebound?

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The impact of Google's new 'free hotel booking links'

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How booking engine personalization can increase your metasearch performance by 118%

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How to become an expert in Google Analytics for hotels

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The Papandayan: Using metasearch to strengthen the direct channel

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Frustrated by lack of booking engine personalization?

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Triptease Meta drives double the average booking volumes for hotels

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Triptease partners with chatbot and communication platform, HiJiffy

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Hotels in crisis can still win: How to adjust strategies without jeopardizing your future

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How booking habits, device preferences, and lead time are all changing

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How one budget hotel chain is outperforming the market despite Covid

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How smart hoteliers are using website messaging to fill their rooms

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COVID-19 and how Asia-Pacific hoteliers can respond in times of crisis

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The top 6 personalized messages to boost your hotel website bookings

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The top Triptease products you built in 2019

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[WATCH] Retargeting Webinar Series: Bring guests back to book direct

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Agoda eases inventory access: No difference between B2B and B2C rates

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Expert tips to win bookings this Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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10 ways to improve your hotel's click-through rate

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Amoma ceases trading: The cheapest price doesn't guarantee conversion

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Ask the Hotel Heroes: OTA commissions are an unnecessary expense

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America or Asia? The surprising truth of metasearch success

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Winter or weekends? The surprising truth of metasearch success

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Without rate parity, you better stay away from metasearch!

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Volume or value? The surprising truth of metasearch success

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Full control of inventory and parity is key to maximizing performance

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[WATCH THE WEBINAR] Metasearch: What hotels get wrong

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What we learned at the Direct Booking Summit Paris 2019

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The real cost of ‘free’ cancellations

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Director Of Business Development at Baur au Lac speaks about OTAs

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There's a massive difference between hotels and OTAs on metasearch

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Making the industry stronger and more resilient than ever before

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Google seems to be taking over the role OTAs play in the guest journey

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Proven: Booking.com-style personalization works for hotels

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The Direct Booking Summit: Asia-Pacific opens its doors

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Easy agile techniques to try in your hotel

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New era. New brand. New Triptease Platform.

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Are we on the verge of a parity nightmare?

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Does your hotel offer value parity?

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Metasearch, A/B testing and OTAs: The most popular topics of 2018

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We need a revolution in thinking about wholesalers

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What meta-on-meta means for your hotel

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Two Roads Hospitality: become agile to avoid organizational silos

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If you're not on that channel, you're ceding your business to an OTA

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Triptease: Our four core values

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New from Triptease: Direct Booking Coaches!

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What we learned from testing hotel websites on real guests

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[WATCH] Unlocking value from every channel - including the OTAs

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How to get your hotel's marketing and revenue teams to collaborate

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The rise of reservation re-sale (and why Airbnb is involved)

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The impact of rate blending on parity

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What sets your brand apart?

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[WATCH] A/B testing for hotels

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Can I stop OTAs from displaying wholesale rates?

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How hotels can avoid marketing "traps"

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Are TripAdvisor's Sponsored Placements a good idea?

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The undeniable impact of parity on your website conversion rate

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Is A/B testing dead?

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Airbnb and parity: What hoteliers need to know

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Hoteliers beware — Airbnb is no distraction for Booking.com

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CRM: A Hotelier's Guide, part 3 — A case study with Hotel Emma

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Is Airbnb a friend or foe to hotels?

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Moving to direct and fighting for parity: the life of a hotelier in Asia-Pacific

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Triptease is a HotelTechAwards winner!

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The early bird catches the bookings

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Interview: What will Gopher do for the direct booking revolution?

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Blockchain for hotels: What you need to know (and what you don't)

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[WATCH] Big data isn't scary — here's how all hotels can use it

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Booking engine conversion rates: How do you measure up?

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What's in store for hotels in 2018?

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OTA commissions are up, but you're still winning. Here's why...

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Direct bookings via OTAs - they might be closer than we think

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Triptease in Singapore: bringing the Direct Booking Movement to Asia

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[WATCH] Direct Booking Strategies for 2018 and beyond

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Direct Booking Summit 2017: Thanks and goodnight!

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The importance of testing and how to get it right

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Worlds apart: How rate disparity varies around the globe

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Metasearch is growing. Google’s in the lead. Where do you fit in?

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Direct bookers are bigger spenders

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An A-Z of Direct Booking Benefits

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Legislating against OTAs: does it ever work?

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New hotel? Here's how to use OTAs to drive future direct bookings

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Will a pop-up on my website impact Google rankings?

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The big meta question

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“But if the price is the same, I'll book at the OTA" - said no one, ever.

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Rate parity: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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8 Reasons Why Direct Bookings Matter for Hotels

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The Triptease Difference

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Bundeskartellamt: Booking.com's 'best price' clauses anticompetitive

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Rekindling brand intimacy

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Never be undercut – the dangers of rate parity agreements

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Triptease integrates with Sabre’s SynXis Booking Engine

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Do hotels have legal protection against negative reviews?

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