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What Are Online Travel Agents (OTAs) | Guide

  What is an OTA | What Are Online Travel Agents  What is an OTA ? OTAs are Online Travel Agents. As the name suggests, online travels agents are the Companies which provide travel services / solutions to customers as well as providing business to Hotels, Airlines, Trains or Buses. But usually when someone talks about OTAs there are very high chances that he is referring to Online Travel Agents which deal with Hotel Rooms Booking. Why OTAs are so popular ? With internet penetration increasing day by day, lots of services have becoming available online and so is hotel booking too ! Today one can Book any hotel Available on an OTA platform from any part of the world online. What are some popular OTAs ? There are lots of OTAs in the market. In fact every country has their own set of popular OTAs now a days. Some worldwide popular OTAs are Booking.com and Expedia.com. You can find lots of hotels listed on these two OTAs across the globe. Some popular OTAs in India are MakeMyTrip.c...
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Getting Your Hotel Listed on OTAs Part 3 - HappyEasyGo.com | OTA Guide

     How to List a Hotel on HappyEasyGo.com HappyEasyGo is one of the new Entrant in the OTA industry of India. There are a hige number of hotels, homestays and resorts listed on HappyEasyGo.  Listing your hotel on HappyEasyGo is quiet easy as compared to listing a hotel on Booking.com or MakeMyTrip. A hotel owner can list their hotel on HappyEasyGo using the following steps. 1. You need to first contact the Business Develop Manager of HappyEasyGo and send them the below mentioned details in an email to him. 2. You will also be required to sign a contract with HappyEasyGo to initiate the listing process. 3. Provide him all the details of the hotel like how many rooms does it have, how many room categories does it have, what are the amenities that your hotel offers to customers. 4. Mention Hotel address and add hotel location in the email properly. 5. Send apealing photos of your property, room level photos as well as property level photos to the HappyEasyGo manager. ...

Get Your Hotel Listed On OTAs Part 4 - Staymaker.in | Staymaker Email

       How to List a Hotel on Staymaker.in Listing your hotel on various OTAs can definitely give a boost to your revenue. Staymaker.in is a new Entrant in the OTA and Hotel Aggregator industry of India. Staymaker has started to list hotels, homestays and resorts on their platform.  Listing your hotel on Staymaker.in is quiet easy as compared to listing a hotel on Booking.com or MakeMyTrip or any other OTA. A hotel owner can list their hotel on Staymaker.in using the following steps. 1. You need to first contact the Business Develop Manager of Staymaker.in and send them the below mentioned details in an email and send it to partnerconnect@staymaker.in. 2. You will need to sign a contract with Staymaker.in to initiate the listing process. 3. Provide all the details of the hotel like how many rooms does it have, how many room categories does it have, what are the amenities that your hotel offers to customers, hotel address and hotel location in the email properly....

Generating Revenue | How to Improve a Hotel OTA Listing

How to Improve a Hotel OTA Listing Listing a hotel on OTAs is not that difficult but to generate business out of that listing is a skill. Virat some very smart improvements that need to be done in hotel OTA Listing in order to generate revenue. Content score Or Property Page Score  The contents for the property page score basically indicates how well the setup of the property listing on the OTA has been done. Ideally the contents score should be 100 percent. Image score Image quality score indicates the quality of photos that have been uploaded on the OTA listing. Quality score Some notice require the hotel owner to maintain a 70 Plus quality score. In hotels like MakeMyTrip and Goibibo if if a hotel has quality score more than 70% it means the hotel owner has good engagement with the extranet i.e., the hotel owner uses the expanded very frequently. Amenities and facilities Hotel owner should ensure that all the amenities and facilities that the hotel offers are updated properly. T...

Getting Your Hotel Listed on OTAs Part 2 - MakeMyTrip.com | Procedure

   How to List a Hotel on MakeMyTrip.com MakeMyTrip is one of the most popular OTA in India. There are thousands of hotels, homestays and resorts listed on MakeMyTrip.com and a huge number of Customers use it to book their hotel rooms on a daily basis. Unlike Booking.com, listing a hotel on MakeMyTrip is little difficult as it needs a hotel owner / operator to furnish a significant number of documents to MakeMyTrip too. A hotel owner can list their hotel on MakeMyTrip.com using the following steps. 1. Make an account / register on in.goibibo.com. 2. Choose the type of property you are listing. You need to choose it from various options available i.e., Hotel, Resort, Homestay, House Boat etc. 3. Fill in all the details of the hotel like how many rooms does it have, how many categories does it have. 4. Mention Hotel address and add hotel location in the map and save it. 5. Add apealing photos of your property, room level photos as well as property level photos. 6. Add all the Ho...

Getting Your Hotel Listed on OTAs Part 1 - Booking.com | Guide

 How to List a Hotel on Booking.com Booking.com is a world-wide popular OTA. There thousands of hotels listed on Booking.com and a huge number of Customers use it to book their hotel stays on a daily basis. A hotel owner can list their hotel on Booking.com using the following steps. 1. Make an account / register on admin.booking.com. 2. Select the type of property you want to list. You need to choose it from various options available on Booking.com i.e., Hotel, Resort, Homestay, House Boat etc. 3. Fill in all the details of the hotel like how many rooms does it have, how many categories does it have. 4. Add apealing photos of your property, room level photos as well as property level photos. 5. Add all the amenities that the hotel offers to the customers very carefully. 6. Submit the listing once you had filled all the details. 7. Booking.com will review your request and all the details filled by you. 8. Once Booking.com approves your listing, your hotel will go live on their websi...

Should I List My Hotel on OTAs ? | Hotel OTA Listing Help

 Listing Your Hotel On OTAs | Yes or No ? Listing your hotel on OTAs can surely give your business a nice boost. It will get your extra Bookings that what you are getting as walk-in customers or bookings given by local travel agents. To list your hotel on OTAs can be a little tideous but since it's a one time activity, it's worth doing it ! In the next few chapters we will share information about listing a hotel on various OTA platforms. But before listing your hotel on OTAs you need to really think if your hotel really needs presence on OTAs ? Because there are chances that your hotel is located near a Bus Stand, a Railway Station or some other busy transit point and your hotel is already running at more than 80% occupancy ! In the above mentioned case I do not there you need online presence on OTAs because your hotel already has good occupancy and adding your hotel to OTAs will surely give you more business BUT if you fail to manage the OTA inventory online properly, you migh...