COMPARISON OF HOTEL BOOKING OPPORTUNITIES

How many possibilities do I have when I want to book a room?

Independent hotel booking website: It has to be automatic to be efficient

Online travel agenciesExample: Thomas Cook

Commisions for hotel, but good follow-up and the travel agency is liable in case of problem

Booking.com

•Commissions but large visibility•Good prices and easy to use for the consumer

Expedia.com:Big commissions for hotels, good prices for consumers

Hotels.com

Tripadvisor: Comments, rankings: It makes the selection easier

Hotels.com booking

Detailed, prices for a month

Lookingforbooking 1st step:Search, compare and book with the best providers

Lookingforbooking 2nd step:Comparison of the best prices (intermediaries)

Lookingforbooking 3rd step:List of hotels found

Lookingforbooking 4th step:Room types/prices according to intermediarie (Onhotels, Booking.com, Otel.com…)

Frommers.com1st step: Search

Frommers 2nd step:List of hotels/prices according to several criteria

Frommers 3rd step:Choose a site/intermediary according to best prices (Orbitz, Agoda, Hotelclub…

Relais&Châteaux Group1st step: Search with criteria

Relais&Châteaux 2nd step:Available hotels of the group with prices/comments

Relais&Châteaux 3rd step:Detailes offers & packages

Marriott booking mobile App:Transportable, as fast as possible, free

ConclusionNowadays, means of booking a hotel room are

multiple. You can know these different websites thanks

to Internet researchers.

Comparison prices: the best deal

Auction websites: good opportunities

OTAs: liability ad trust

Hotel websites: direct and more information

Comments & rankings: avoids bad surprices…

IT’S UP TO YOU!