Hotel consortium website takes aim at online travel agencies - USATODAY.com - 0 views
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Room Key is designed to give the benefits of booking your room directly with the hotel and enough choice from these hotel chains and their partners that you won't be tempted to plunk your money down on an online travel agency site instead.
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you can then view an overview of each property, along with photos, a map and ratings and review snippets from TripAdvisor.
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You'll get the benefit of earning rewards points, avoid the unpredictability of diverse booking fees from online travel agencies, and make special requests for things such as early check-in or connecting rooms.
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I found instances when it offered a different room type or lower rates at specific properties of its founding hotels than were available on sites such as Expedia, Orbitz, Hotels.com, Booking.com, Travelocity and Priceline.
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This article discusses the collaborative creation of hotel chains such as Hilton and Marriott, RoomKey.com. It is an OTA site that provides benefits to users who choose to make reservations with the partnered hotels. It is different from other OTAs in that loyalty program points can be used, users are aware of the hotel at which they are making the reservations, the prices are lower, RoomKey provides detailed views of the location and rooms, and there are no hidden fees. I thought this was an interesting article in that it displayed some of the hotels' efforts to compete with OTA websites.