{"id":11868,"date":"2021-07-13T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/?p=11868"},"modified":"2022-08-26T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T13:44:50","slug":"hotel-distribution-and-the-pandemic-the-travel-chessboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/hotel-distribution-and-the-pandemic-the-travel-chessboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel distribution and the pandemic: the travel chessboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past 15 months, the hotel industry has suffered one of the most significant losses in gross booking quantity ever. However, despite volumes in 2020 being 69% lower than the previous year, we have been monitoring the reservation types, channels and rates to gain insights into trends that could help hotels plan the recovery.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 we published our first analysis of distribution trends, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/how-online-hotel-distribution-is-changing-in-europe\/\">A Deep-dive into European Hotel Distribution trends 2014-2018<\/a>, in which we uncovered the sheer volume of cancellation rates from OTAs and how this was affecting hotels. The report laid out a lot more on how the industry, at its peak during the study, was changing.<\/p>\n<p>Our second analysis in 2020 was broadened to look into the trends not only in EMEA but also in Asia-Pacific (APAC). The report, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/the-rise-of-direct-bookings-over-otas\/\">The Rise of Direct Bookings Over OTAs<\/a>, brought to light how patterns had changed due to the pandemic, and how direct bookings were taking a much bigger part of a much smaller market.<\/p>\n<p>This study is the follow-up to our 2020 partial analysis. In this report, we examined the year 2020 in its entirety (to better understand the impact of the pandemic), and reviewed the first five months of 2021. The information included in this research has been gathered from 3,442 hotels in Europe and 438 hotels in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past 15 months, the hotel industry has suffered one of the most significant losses in gross booking quantity ever. However, despite volumes in 2020 being 69% lower than the previous year, we have been monitoring the reservation types, channels and rates to gain insights into trends that could help hotels plan the recovery. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-edge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}