Category: Wholesale Travel Education

Online travel agencies do not own a single hotel room, airline seat, or cruise cabin. Expedia Group, Booking Holdings, and every OTA in their…

Every hotel room, airline seat, and cruise cabin you have ever booked passed through a chain of intermediaries before it reached your screen. Each…

You search for the same hotel room on five different websites. Same property, same dates, same bed. Five different prices. The price gap is…

Every hotel room on earth has a price the public sees and a price the industry pays. The industry price — the net wholesale…

Every hotel room, airline seat, cruise cabin, and rental car exists as a unit of inventory inside a supplier’s distribution system. Before a consumer…

Most advice on how to afford more vacations starts with the same list: skip the morning coffee, set up a travel savings account, fly…

The debate between using a travel agent and booking online has been running for two decades, and most of the advice you’ll find treats…

Yes. Expedia is marking up hotel prices. The company’s own financial disclosures describe exactly how: Expedia buys hotel rooms at wholesale rates negotiated directly…

The short answer is yes — OTAs are almost always more expensive than booking direct. But the longer answer matters more, because “booking direct”…

Every hotel room, rental car, and cruise cabin moves through a supply chain before it reaches you. At the top of that chain sits…