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Priceline own Booking.com that have a more intelligent setup than any Hostel agent site. So if Priceline buy Hostelworld I think we can be happy. Especially if they reduce their current 12% commission down for hostels.
Booking.com have agents in each region and not in a far off land. Their agents will work with you to tweak your hostel setup and their rating system is very special. Their billing is based on trust. Overall Booking.com understand that hostels are their customer and they are very helpful. Their system enables a hostel to do more things to gain more bookings as it does not promote mostly the lowest price. As a Property Management supplier. Our integration with them has stopped many hostels from being on the continuing downward price per bed spiral. They are a valuable agent for hostels. |
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Would you say the same for dorm beds as well? Do you have any public statistics available?(I don't have experience on this BE, we only registered ourselves two weeks ago)
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"Home is a place where you would be always happy to stay." Aboriginal Hostel Budapest Last edited by aboriginalhostel; 5th November 2009 at 8:53. |
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No not so much with dorm beds. When Hostels integrate with Booking.com they tend to increase the price of their dorm beds back to a fair price because they are preferring to sell dorm rooms as private twins, private triples and private quads.
Hostels can sell a private quad on Booking.com for the same price they would sell 6 dorm beds on a hostel site. If you write your text correctly you get guests from Booking.com that are happy about the low price when in fact you are getting a higher price than you usually get. So dorm beds are not the big sellers on Booking.com. You do get a lot of returning customers from Booking.com as the people that use it can be business folk looking for a low priced solution to save spending all their accommodation per diem on a hotel. And of course they really like the activity with guests at the hostel as oppossed to being locked in a hotel room in a city where they do not know anyone. But you have to get your descriptive text and setup correct otherwise you will get a lot of angry guests ![]() No public stats mate as we learn from trialing at our test hostels before we roll it out to our current and new users. We see the trends, errors, and wins. Last edited by HostelOffice; 5th November 2009 at 8:53. |
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The idea of Booking.com getting into the hostel market isn't bad.
The company seems professional enough to understand the market and know how to sell and promote different accommodation types, including dorm rooms. Out of all the online websites currently operating I would probably have more faith in their abilities than in some of their competitors! |
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Hostelworld has been sold:
WRI (Hostelworld) Sold to Hellman and Friedman |
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...so itīs not priceline as favoured, but Hellman & Friedman... I guess there wonīt be any change in the business model...Hellman (and even Friedman) are probably more interested in only collecting the profit in time
...good luck, guys!
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