actowiz

  Introduction TL;DR: Actowiz tracked identical room types at 2,500 hotels across 15 cities on Booking.com, Agoda, and Expedia over 60 days. Findings: the same room on the same dates showed different prices across OTAs in 42% of observations; Agoda's headline rates ran lowest in Bangkok, Bali, and Singapore while taxes-and-fees presentation reversed many gaps at checkout; and mobile-only/member rates broke advertised parity in 32% of cases. Why Rate Parity Is the Travel Industry's Data Problem Hotels promise OTAs rate parity; OTAs compete to break it through member pricing, mobile rates, and packaging. For hotels, parity violations leak revenue and damage direct-booking strategy. For OTAs and metasearch, parity gaps are the competitive product. Nobody can manage what they can't see — and seeing it requires scraping identical room-date pairs across platforms continuously. Methodology Platforms Covered: Booking.com, Agoda, and Expedia. Cities Covered: 15 major destinations,...