The HappiTravel® Journal
Plain-spoken articles on wholesale travel, member economics, and how to evaluate any booking platform before you trust it with a vacation.
Travel agents have been booking the same hotel rooms you book — at lower prices — for decades. The mechanic behind this is not a secret within the industry, but it has never been clearly explained to the people actually…
A net rate is the wholesale price a hotel, airline, or cruise line charges its distribution partners before anyone adds a markup. It is…
The question makes sense. “Wholesale travel” sounds like a phrase that should mean something specific — prices before the retail markup, the rates hotels…
A wholesale travel membership gives you direct access to net supplier rates — the actual prices hotels, resorts, and cruise lines charge their distribution…
Expedia earned roughly $1.3 billion in profit last year without owning a single hotel room, airline seat, or cruise cabin. The company’s 16,000 employees…