Originally Posted by
warakorn
One question that always is confusing me.
Lets say a hotel offers a rate of USD 150 on their own website.
OTA offers the same room for USD 110.
The hotel does than have to pay USD 20 to the OTA for commission. Hence, the hotel is only left with USD 90.
Why are hotels not trying to offer the cheapest price on their own website?
Hotels will often have wholesale (FIT) rates which are much cheaper. They contract these out to certain companies who in turn sell them onto other companies who then publish these rates online. FIT rates are to be booked as part of a package ie. With a flight, however as you are seeing, sometimes FIT rates appear online and can be booked as stand alone...