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   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...

 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...

 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...

 OTAs which allow Pay At Hotel payment mode to the Hotel Owners There are lots of hotels in the market and some of them provide Pay at hotel options to custimers for booking a hotel room, some provide only Prepaid options and some Provide Pay at hotel as well as Prepaid options both as per the hotel owner's descretion. Lets learn about some such OTAs. OTAs which offer Pay At Hotel option to guests 1. Booking.com 2. Expedia 3. Agoda OTAs which strictly offer Prepaid option to guests 1. MakeMyTrip.com 2. GoIbibo.com 3. AirBnb OTAs which offer Prepaid as well as Pay At Hotel option to guests 1. MakeMyTrip.com - Hotel owner acn offer Prepaid as well as Pay at Hotel option, both to the customers. 2. GoIbibo.com - Hotel owner acn offer Prepaid as well as Pay at Hotel option, both to the customers.

Reconciliation of Online Bookings | Reconciliation of OTA Bookings OTAs provide customers two modes of payment to Book their rooms online i.e., Pay At Hotel and Pay Now. Let's see how does reconciliation happen between the hotel and the OTAs in each of the above mentioned cases. Reconciliation in case of Pay At Hotel Bookings Let's take an example here. Suppose the contract between a Hotel and the OTA is in the ratio of 80:20. It means that if a booking gets made at Rs 1000 then the hotel share on the booking will be Rs 800 and the OTA share on the booking will be Rs 200. Reconciliation in Case of Pay At Hotel Booking happens as follows: Guest Name Booking Amount Hotel Share OTA Share Amount Collected by Hotel Amount Collected by OTA John 1000 800 200 800 0 Thomas 2000 1600 400 1600 0 Total 3000 2400 600 2400 0 This means that at the end of the month whenever the reconciliation happens, the hotel is liable to pay the OTAs their share of money. In this case the hotel will pay Rs...

  Modes Of Payment for Booking a Hotel Room OTAs (Online Travel Agents or Agencies) provides two modes of payment to customers for Booking their rooms online i.e., Pay at Hotel and Prepay. Pay At Hotel - As the name itself suggests that Customers can Book their hotel room online and make payment for the same at the hotel. This mode of payment is also known as Book Now, Pay Later ! Pros of Pay At Hotel mode for Hotel Owners and Customers  Hotel owners allow customers to Book their hotel room now and Pay Later option during weekdays or low demand dates, so that Customers do not worry about Cancellation Charges and plan their tour without any Payment restrictions. Thus It becomes easier for customers to plan their trip and book a hotel without being worried about non refundable or cancellation charges. Cons of Pay at hotel mode for hotel owners and customers The biggest negative point of allowing customers to book hotel now and pay later is High cancellations and No Shows. Usuall...