Who can have a place in the world's top ten OTAs?

Who can have a place in the world's top ten OTAs?

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2014-03-05 Source: I black Horse

With the rapid development of tourism industry, the emergence of online tourism website has promoted the Internet of the whole tourism industry. The number of travel websites including Ota, tourism search engine, in the fierce competition and rapid development, the online tourism industry has appeared a number of giants, in the global scope have enough visibility and users. The author below to bring the world's top ten well-known tourism site inventory, ranked in no particular order.

Priceline.com

Priceline's Priceline.com is one of the world's leading online travel sites, and on Priceline.com, the most intuitive option is airfare, hotel, car rental and travel insurance. For example, the hotel reservation service, users can choose the hotel they want according to pictures, descriptions, maps and customer reviews, and pay at the published price.

Priceline.com's most distinctive service is named your own price (self-pricing system), which means letting users decide on their own prices. On Priceline.com, consumers can offer the price they are willing to give, waiting for the providers of air tickets, hotels, car rental, travel insurance and other services to accept the price and serve the consumer. As a result, consumers may be able to book a five-star hotel with a price of more than $200 at a cost of just $70 priceline.com.

Although Priceline.com development in China is very slow, but its C2B model in China has a copycat, more well-known such as Ctrip's "Choice Hotel ."

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Different from Priceline's diversified business, the main hotel accommodation, covering more than 370,000 hotels in more than 180 countries worldwide booking business, with 24 million reviews from real guests, and this number is growing fast.

Book your hotel in the first place you want to go to the city and check-in date input, and then you can search for many different levels of hotels, the list of hotels by star, distance, price, rating and other sorts. It is important to note that these sorting categories have finer selections, such as price sorting, which can be filtered by the number of rooms.

Usually, the user can cancel or change the reservation free of charge 3 days before the check-in, without any charge. The user wants to see " free cancellation" in the "related terms" of the room type . It is worth noting that some special rooms are not refundable.

In addition, the hotel does not require prepayment and deposit on reservation, after booking, guests can check-in with the booking form and pay directly to the hotel upon check-out. Yes, there is a nice Chinese name: the guest.

　Expedia.com

Expedia.com is one of the world's largest online travel sites, providing consumers with travel, air tickets, hotel reservations, self-service bookings and travel holiday services, as well as tourist attractions, travel offers, destination guides, and more, a comprehensive online travel platform for one-stop travel services.

Book a hotel on Expedia.com and search directly for hotels near the city, landmarks, airports, choose check-in dates and return dates, book multiple rooms at once, and adults and minors can choose from, and discounts may be available for minors of certain age.

Consumers make bookings on expedia.com and can choose different payment methods: Pay immediately, or they can pay later. As a result, there is no case where consumers can choose a payment method when they purchase certain products and cannot make a choice when buying another product.

Expedia.com also offers "Best Price Guarantee " commitment, such as the user found on other sites more preferential free travel package or hotel price, Expedia.com will refund the difference, and then give a 500 yuan Travel cash coupon.

　　Ctrip Travel Network Ctrip.com

Ctrip appears on the recommendation list is not a "tall " feeling, in fact, Ctrip as the country's largest online travel site, in the world also has a large number of users.

At present, Ctrip has nearly 30,000 hotels at home and abroad to book, hotel booking business in 138 countries and regions around the world more than 5,900 cities. Ctrip has supported 9 languages and also attaches great importance to the travel strategy, which includes 50,000 travel destinations, 200,000 travels and 600,000 travel questions.

After the user login ctrip.com, can carry on the hotel, the travel, the air ticket, the train ticket, the scenic spot ticket, buys, two inquires and the reservation service. Recently Ctrip also launched a "mobile phone booking ticket, each send 20 Yuan ","hotel maximum return room 30%" and other large-scale promotional activities, for the user has no small appeal.

TripAdvisor.com

TripAdvisor.com is already the world's largest online travel community, with more than 190 countries and reviews of hundreds of millions of hotel attractions and visits. It is worth mentioning that TripAdvisor.com's "Local picks" scoring system has covered more than 850,000 restaurants around the world and become a great tool for "foodie".

On the tripadvisor.com, the user can make a detailed comparison between the hotel and the ticket, such as booking hotels can use "look for hotels, see reviews, than the price " of the three steps to choose the most cost-effective hotel to make a reservation.

Users can also mark the sights on the tripadvisor.com, making choices about "want to go " or " go" . The sites you have visited can be graded and evaluated, and the places you want to visit are marked with a view of the hotel where the site is located, and then compare and book.

　Agoda.

As with the hotel, Agoda is also a well-known online hotel booking site, with Agoda's hotels currently covering more than 370,000 hotels worldwide. With over 37,000 destinations for hotel bookings and support for nearly 40 languages, Agoda members have provided more than 4 million real hotel reviews.

" book Now,pay later", the Chinese meaning is "booking first, after payment ", this service is currently applicable to the thousands of hotels on the Agoda.

Users can self-service on Agoda, can enjoy the modification of the scheduled date, submit special requests, resend Hotel voucher, request receipts and other services.

　　Hotel.com

Hotels.com is also an online travel website dedicated to hotel bookings, which has grown to offer 240,000 hotels to customers worldwide, with over 6.5 million guest reviews covering more than 60 countries and regions worldwide.

At present, Hotels.com is implementing a membership program to give members a "Stay award ", the member through the Hotels.com to make a reservation, each cumulative stay 10 nights, you can get "1 Free Night " award, Accommodation awards can be selected at Hotels.com, a total of 85,000 stores worldwide. Up to now, Hotels.com members have enjoyed free accommodation for more than 1 million nights.

Hotel.com also launched a "Price guarantee ", committed users to book the hotel price is the lowest price, if the price is more expensive, the difference will be returned to the user immediately by hotel.com.

　　Kayak.com

Kayak.com is a well-known travel search engine site in the United States, focusing on online travel. As a vertical search engine, kayak.com mainly provides tourism vertical search service to provide users with deep search of domestic and international air tickets, hotels, vacations and other services to help tourists make better travel choices.

Kayak.com currently supports 29 languages and does not offer Chinese language services for the time being. However, users can search, compare and book hotels in China through kayak.com.

　　MakeMyTrip.com

Makemytrip may not be as well known as Priceline and Expedia, the largest online travel site in India, Makemytrip is the "Ctrip " in the eyes of the Chinese. Expedia, India.

At present, MakeMyTrip.com's business covers air tickets, hotels, tourist holidays, cheap air tickets are also its characteristic business, has supported six languages, excluding Chinese.

MakeMyTrip.com also offers "Last minute deals (final minute booking)" Special hotel booking service, daily to provide users with a minimum of 30% discount on a limited-time hotel reservation, in addition to MakeMyTrip.com also offers "Ticket + Hotel "Bundle, this will allow users to enjoy a higher discount.

　Hotelurbano.com

Hotelurbano.com is an online travel website from Brazil that specializes in tourist destinations and accommodation. At present, the site has more than 83 countries in 35,000 cities tourist information, including destination attractions, accommodation, meals, flights and other information.

With 15 million registered users, Hotelurbano.com has 7.7 million followers on its Facebook page, surpassing the number of Facebook fans in all of the world's online travel agents.

With Brazil's World Cup next year and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games approaching, Brazil's tourism industry is bound to set off a multi-climax, the pace of hotelurbano.com development will reach what speed, it is expected.

Who can have a place in the world's top ten OTAs?