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1-2% is more of an upper bound. The numbers I've seen have been more like 10's of cents per conversion. And for whatever reasons, flight availability provider
by splonk 7y ago
1-2% is more of an upper bound. The numbers I've seen have been more like 10's of cents per conversion. And for whatever reasons, flight availability providers are not in the business of providing high throughput for clients, so the cost of performing those searches is probably considerably higher than you think. When I joined the travel industry I was shocked at what people considered reasonable latencies for availability calls, as well as the costs people pay just to get that level of performance.
If you want to make money in travel search, there's a lot more money in commissions for hotel bookings than in air.
- kirubakaran 7y agoThat explains one of my pet peeves of all travel search sites that are primarily useful for air travel search defaulting to hotel search.
- nunez 7y agoThat’s surprising considering that there isn’t a Google Flights interface for hotels (I.e. an aggregator through which users can purchase hotel reservations through hotel providers directly)
- lotsofpulp 7y agoIt‘a roomkey.com , but Marriott/IHG/Hilton/Hyatt/Choice/Wyndham franchise most hotels and collect a 10% to 15% royalty of gross revenue from hotel owners, so they don’t care about commissions paid since it’s not coming out of their pocket.
- alexhutcheson 7y agohttps://www.google.com/travel/hotels https://www.google.com/travel/hotels