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How to Cut OTA Commissions With a Hotel Booking Engine

OTAs bring you guests. They also quietly take a big slice of every room you sell. For a small hotel running on thin margins, that slice is often the difference between a good month and a flat one. The...
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Tai Pei Shi on 25 Jul 2026
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Hotel Booking Engines in 2026: A Guide for Hoteliers

If you run an independent hotel, this number should stop you: in 2025, online travel agencies took 63.4% of independent hotel bookings. Every one of t...
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Tai Pei Shi on 25 Jul 2026
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Xiaohongshu (RedNote): How Chinese Travellers Discover Hotels in Malaysia

Most Malaysian hotel owners think of Xiaohongshu (RedNote / XHS) as "the Chinese Instagram." That's the wrong picture, and it's costing bookings.
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Tai Pei Shi on 08 Jul 2026
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How to Choose a Hotel Booking Engine in 2026

If you pay 15-20% commission on every OTA booking, a booking engine is one of the few tools that can lower that cost. Among Softinn clients, 56.94% cu...
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Tai Pei Shi on 06 Jul 2026
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