The FIFA World Cup in Qatar is fast approaching and some interesting trends in the region's hospitality sector are beginning to emerge.

The actions of Australia's and New Zealand’s governments to restrict the spread of COVID-19 were some of the fastest and toughest in the developed world. Within weeks of clusters spreading, both governments rolled out comprehensive strategies to restrict the virus to an effectively negligible level. They have, largely, succeeded in this goal, but it has come with a cost. Harsh lockdowns have been repeatedly re-imposed on a federal and state level, depending on the infection rate. This has created considerable issues for the hospitality sector in both countries, resulting in new strategic direction by hotel revenue management teams. We now see a proportionally much higher rate of flexible rate strategies in the space, with restrictions being the biggest cause of these changes.

The travel industry has endured a lot over the last two years. For hoteliers, and their commercial teams, their work has never been more challenging.

OTA Insight launches the Overview homepage; an industry-first commercial hub for hoteliers to plan, monitor and execute on key decisions

Different travellers have different needs and buying habits. In other words, their motivations for travelling are different.

OTA Insight, the global leader in cloud-based hospitality commercial intelligence, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Dallas-based Kriya RevGEN, a leading hotel revenue intelligence platform that integrates and normalizes disparate data sources across hotel systems to provide a consistent view of hotel performance.

OTA Insight acquires Transparent to form the world’s first cloud-based commercial platform to serve both hotel and short-term rental industries