Best channels to boost reservations for your market
With over 400+ channel integrations we know it can seem overwhelming to pick the Online Travel Agents (OTAs) that are right for your property.
Based on your country, this article contains suggestions for what we think are the best OTAs to connect to and boost your visibility. You can click on your country in the index above. You will see a table with the suggested channels for your country's market. On average, Channel Manager properties increased reservations by 2.5 when they connected to at least 5 or more suitable channels.
Countries
Spain
Here are the top channel recommendations for Spain:
Rank 1 | BDC | |
Rank 2 | EXP | |
Rank 3 | HBD | |
Rank 4 | KTL | |
Rank 5 | AGO | |
Rank 6 | NTN | |
Rank 7 | WIC | |
Rank 8 | HRS | |
Rank 9 | SER | |
Rank 10 | JMB | |
Rank 11 | n/a |
United Kingdom
Here are the top channel recommendations for United Kingdom:
Rank 1 | BDC | |
Rank 2 | EXP | |
Rank 3 | ABB | |
Rank 4 | MHB | |
Rank 5 | HBD | |
Rank 6 | AGO | |
Rank 7 | TRG | |
Rank 8 | ZOO | |
Rank 9 | n/a |
Channels
Agoda
Agoda is Asia's leading and fastest growing online hotel reservation service, focused on securing and providing the lowest available hotel prices in every destination worldwide. Agoda's reach in the Asia-Pacific region is unmatched, with instant availability at more than 40,000 hotels. And, as part of Priceline.com, their connections are global, allowing them to offer the lowest prices at 200,000 hotels worldwide.
Airbnb
Airbnb is an online marketplace and hospitality service, enabling people to list or rent short-term lodging including vacation rentals, apartment rentals, homestays, hostel beds, or hotel rooms. Airbnb is known for allowing everyday people to list their spare room or home to travellers while they are away.
Booking.com
Booking.com is an online travel agency for lodging reservations. It is owned and operated by and is the primary revenue source of United States-based Booking Holdings and is headquartered in Amsterdam. The website has over 28 million listings.
Demand Plus
Demand Plus is an add-on feature of the SiteMinder Booking Engine that drives direct bookings to your property by making your property visible on high performing travel sites, like Google Hotel Ads, Trivago, and TripAdvisor.
Expedia
Expedia Group is an American online travel shopping company for consumer and small business travel. Its websites, which are primarily travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, include CarRentals.com, Expedia.com, HomeAway, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, trivago and Vrbo
Hotelbeds
A global B2B OTA partner with a leading portfolio of over 50,000 hotels across 147 countries. Selling 14 million room nights per annum. Active in over 100 source markets worldwide.
Keytel
Keytel is part of the Hotusa Group. Hotusa Group is an organisation with over 40 years of experience, with a pool of companies from diverse spheres of the tourism sector.
HRS (Hotel Reservation Service)
The German channel HRS operates a global reservation system, for hotels, and especially business travelers and This channel has more than 250,000 hotels, in all price categories, in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. HRS allows users to make direct reservations for free, with immediate confirmation and at special prices.
JumboTours
Jumbo Tours Group is part of Alpitour World, the principal tourism group in Italy and one of the biggest in Europe. It includes the main Italian Tour Operators and has the biggest distribution channel with more than 1,000 travel agencies, a hotel company and an airline.
Lastminute.com
Lastminute.com offers hotels and vacation and last-minute travel packages, and other travel-related services. Lastminute.com is the leader in European online travel.
MyHotelBreak.com
Classic Britain / MyHotelBreak.com is an award-winning organisation representing over 500 hotels (and growing). OTA specialises in short leisure breaks and large group packages, hand selected leisure accommodation (UK travel only).
NT Incoming / World 2 Meet
W2M is a global on and offline provider of travel services in more than 175 countries, providing hotel accommodation, transfers, excursions and tours, and handling services. Our main clients are tour operators, travel wholesalers, OTAs, bed banks and travel agencies.
Serhs (Barcelò Group)
SERHS Turismo is part of the SERHS Group, one of the most important business corporations in Spain.
Travelzoo
Travelzoo provides 30 million members insider deals and one-of-a-kind experiences. This channel has a finger on the pulse of outstanding travel, entertainment, and lifestyle experiences. Travelzoo members access to irresistible deals.
WelcomeBeds
W2M is a global on and offline provider of travel services in more than 175 countries, providing hotel accommodation, transfers, excursions and tours, and handling services. Our main clients are tour operators, travel wholesalers, OTAs, bedbanks and travel agencies.