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Merchant model vs. Commissionable model

As a hotelier, would you work more in favor of:

- commissionable model, ie. the online players invoice you a commission (between 8 and 15%) after the stay of the guest (example: booking.com, venere.com, HRS.com, Hotel.de)

or

- merchant model, ie. you negotiate a net rate and some room allotment with the online player and you receive the payment of your net rates after the guest stay (example: hotels.com, octopustravel, hotelclub, hotels4u)

Please send your comments with you reasons. Thanks for your contribution.

Results of the latest poll - Booking.com is leading

Back in September 07, I have created a poll asking this question:

"You decide to go for a weekend breakaway in Rome next week, you need a hotel ...where would you go instantly?"

More than 150 of you have responded to the poll (remember you could only vote once and can only give one answer) and I believe this is time to reveal the results and close the poll.

21% of the responded have chosen Booking.com

20% would start their search on Google

18% have opted for other options not listed on suggested answers (TripAdvisor, Choice Hotels, ReserveHotels, Ebookers, Rates2Go, Travelgator, Vinivi...)

...which leads to prove that the online hospitality world is not resumed to the big 4 OTAs)

10% would rather look at the hotel / hotels owned websites

Surprisingly enough, none of you would look at lowcost airlines websites such as Ryanair or Easyjet.

Thanks again for participating in the poll.

New Poll: where would you go instantly to find a hotel for a weekend breakaway in Rome?

Results of the latest poll

Before I publish another poll, here are the results of the latest one:

What do you think of Bill Marriott’s blog ?

18.75%		Very good, I will read this regularly from now on
6.25%		OK. I might check the blog again in the future
18.75%		The content is interesting. The RSS feeds are on my RSS news readers now!
18.75%		Average. I am not too sure if I will come back to the site
37.5%		Couldn’t care less!

16 people have voted. (I wish it could have been more though)

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