Distribution tips

DerbySoft, a hotel distribution tech company, is expanding into the airline industry through the acquisition of Pkfare. 

Tel Aviv-based Guesty, which provides property-management system tools for the vacation-rental industry, announced the acquisition of a partner and sometime competitor Rentals United.

It wasn’t too long ago that if you booked a flight through an online travel agency, you couldn’t pick your seat assignment in advance.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, December 5. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

If you want to enter the hospitality sector, start small and get financial support. But be aware that scaling up beyond a certain threshold can be tremendously hard.

How much will hotel companies pay OTAs (online travel agencies) and similar third-party distributors this year? That was the thought-provoking question raised on Thursday by Max Starkov in a LinkedIn post.

Tripla, which provides a booking engine to hotels in Japan and Southeast Asia, has acquired a travel tech company in Indonesia.

Airlines used to lean on online travel agencies to find customers. But now in something of a turnabout, airlines have enough loyalists that online travel companies are, in some cases, providing services to airlines to help them sell upsells and packages directly.

Peakwork, a software company that develops distribution systems for travel companies, said Friday that it has been acquired by Constellation Software.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Thursday, April 20. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

I spent last week at two major hotel conferences, and the most intriguing thing I heard was a couple of hotel executives contemplating the coming competition from financial and tech players.

Accor held a day of presentations for investors on June 27, and I wrote a piece covering 7 top slides from it. Today I want to highlight the most notable 20 minutes of the six hours of talks.

TUI, one of Europe’s leading tour operator groups, has extended its tours and activities distribution through Juniper Travel Technology.