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Day tours are a common yet growing trend, highlighting the need for diverse, immersive experiences offered at competitive prices to attract customers.
May 2024
Online Travel
We undertook a unique web scraping exercise of over 20,000 hotels listed on Google Hotels across the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Middle East & Africa in order to understand today’s online hotel distribution landscape.
April 2024
India’s travel booking landscape is rapidly shifting online, driven by the younger demographic, rising smartphone penetration, and improving internet connectivity across the country. Currently diverse and fragmented, the online travel landscape, is poised for dynamic growth as local players strive to maintain their dominance and Western OTAs take steps to tap into the emerging opportunity.
March 2024
The golden era of Booking and Expedia is facing challenges of slowing growth and increased competition, prompting a fierce battle for market share through innovation and expansion efforts amid a changing landscape.
The underlying hotel supply in Europe is much less branded than it is in the U.S., meaning a greater reliance on OTAs for bookings. In turn there is a more fragmented online distribution market in Europe, with Google’s introduction of an organic auction providing further opportunity for smaller OTAs and new entrants to gain market share.
November 2023
Consumer Habits
Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, U.S. travel achieves record levels, with changing travel patterns highlighted by a decline in business trips.
October 2023
Hospitality
Wyndham and Choice are known for their predominantly franchise-based portfolios in the U.S. midscale and economy sectors. As other major brands explore expansion opportunities into midscale and economy hotels, we offer an analysis of the current market leaders, Wyndham and Choice, through a comparison presented in 20 key charts.
August 2023
Destinations
Travel is back! While 2022 was all about bumper performances in some countries and sectors, and lagging performances in others, we can truly say that 2023 is the year that travel fully recovered. But we do need to be clear-eyed about persisting and upcoming challenges. This report hands you everything you need to know in one 250+ slide deck.
July 2023
Marriott and Hilton are the two largest and most well known asset-light hotel chains in the U.S. Both companies' stock prices and valuations soared in 2020/21, with Hilton outperforming Marriott. However as any SEC rule book will tell you - past performance isn't indicative of future results. This handy 20 chart factbook provides investors the key comparisons on the two companies in order to make investment decisions into 2023.
June 2023
Business Travel
Business travel spending is unlikely to reach 2019 levels in the near future as corporations are implementing stringent travel policies and the availability of video conferencing options is expected to displace a share of business traffic.
April 2023
We've covered the environmental performance of hotel companies before, but that research was due an update. Much has happened in the world, and - probably unrelated - hotel companies have become better at setting emission reduction targets and reporting of current performance. Let's continue that trend.
March 2023
A potential recession is on the horizon in the U.S., but we expect hotel performance to stay resilient in the face of economic uncertainty, buoyed by continued strength in the luxury segment - unlike what has been seen in prior downturns.
