What is an OTA with Sheli from Guesty

The Boostly Podcast

Mark Simpson

Marketing, Business

5.0 • 302 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Boost Hospitality Podcast is back for another season! We are now in Season 7, and we are currently on the eighteenth episode! Today, I've invited Sheli from Guesty to talk about OTA. 3:35 Guest Introduction 4:20 Sheli on Short Stay Show 5:34 Let's talk about OTAs 17:59 Know more about Guesty 24:16 Quickfire questions 29:35 Thank Yous • https://www.Boostly.co.uk • https://www.Boostly.co.uk/5steps • https://www.instagram.com/boostlyuk • https://www.Boostly.co.uk/guidebook • https://www.Boostly.co.uk/website • https://www.BookdirectMap.com • https://www.Boostly.co.uk/podcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Boostley podcast. We are in season 7 episode 18 and today we're just
0:20.0	going to delve back a little bit and we're going to talk about what exactly is an online
0:25.1	travel agent. So my name is Mark Simpson and I help all hospitality owners from all over the world
0:30.3	increase their direct bookings. But today we're going to talk about what an OTA is. What is an online travel
0:35.9	agent? Why should you be listing your business on them when I'm talking about direct bookings?
0:41.9	And this is a really important episode because I believe
0:44.8	that so many hosts don't know what OTA means. Now I have been waiting for my opportunity
0:50.9	to interview Guesty. I've tried and tried and tried.
0:53.6	We've had to rearrange and rearrange
0:55.4	due to life and busyness.
0:57.2	But I finally managed to track down Shelly.
0:59.0	Shelly's the B.D.
1:00.4	Over there at Gesti.
1:02.2	Gesti are based in Tel Aviv in Israel.
1:05.1	They are going to be at the Short State show on March.
1:09.5	The 12th, 2020, going to be talking at the same show as I am at the London Excel which is
1:14.3	going to be my biggest ever talk which I'm super excited for please please please come
1:17.8	and say hi to them go watch Shelley's talk go watch my talk if you are planning on checking it out. Just go on to Google
1:24.4	Type in Short Stay Show. It will come up. You can book your tickets and we'll go from there.
1:28.2	I want to say a quick shout out to the sponsors of the Boosted podcast hostfully Right now we are doing a joint competition
1:35.9	to find the best guidebooks of hostfully land. If you go to hostfully.com you can go
1:41.7	and create your free guidebook you get one
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