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.
The short answer is yes — OTAs are almost always more expensive than booking direct. But the longer answer matters more, because “booking direct” doesn’t save you nearly as much as you think, and both options leave the real savings…
Every hotel room, rental car, and cruise cabin moves through a supply chain before it reaches you. At the top of that chain sits…
Travel agents have been booking the same hotel rooms you book — at lower prices — for decades. The mechanic behind this is not…
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…