There has been a growing trend over the course of the last year in the world of

hospitality and that is direct bookings which is music to mine and many hosts

around the world and there are many factors around it but recently I discovered

a blog on the focus wire website and I wanted to dig into it today with you.

So for those of you that are here for the first time my name is Mark Simpson I

founded a company called Boosely Five Years ago and it was all designed and

created around the knowledge of helping hosts just like you increase your

direct bookings so you don't have to rely on bookin.com Airbnb, the Expedia

Group to bring in your bookings, getting heads on beds and in 2018 I started

this podcast when I lay up to 300 episodes which is crazy and every day I

upload an episode, video is on YouTube, audio is on Spotify and Apple and the

written blog is on the Boosely website so it doesn't matter how you like to

learn I've got something for you and like I said recently blog is by Pablo

Delgado on the focus wire website and the one thing and it

tells into many different reasons but the one thing that really stuck out for

me is and this blog is definitely around hotels now I help all hospitality

owners whether it's self-catering whether it's B&Bs hotels etc but one thing

that really stood out was this one more domestic and even local customers so

less need for air travel and therefore for package sales the big loser being

Expedia Expedia massive losers of the last year greater

relevance of brand and reputation which again greatly facilitates direct

sales over OTA sales same language time zone many customers are local it's

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