The abundance of hotel booking channels calls for a tech-enabled distribution strategy. Central Reservation Systems help manage rates and availability across multiple booking channels and have the ...

Five hotel chains are forming their own system for booking hotel rooms over the Web. But the group has a ways to go if it's going to challenge existing big guns like Expedia. Greg Sandoval covers ...

Two new Internet distribution systems offering discounted hotel rooms on the Web are meeting resistance from business travel buyers because neither Web solution intends to credit reservations toward ...

Travelweb is the newest provider of online hotel room deals operating under the merchant model business strategy. As net rate merchants, hotel wholesalers such as Travelweb obtain net room rates from ...

Taking a page out of Orbitz's playbook, five hotel chains announced Monday that they are banding together to form their own distribution system for booking hotel rooms over the Web. Hilton Hospitality ...