Airbnb Trip.com rise on global top list of hotel channels

Global hotel industry’s leading guest acquisition platform SiteMinder revealed its annual lists of the distribution channels that brought the highest booking revenue to hotels over the past year.

Varying across 20 of the world’s top tourism destinations, the lists reveal the fast-growing successes of both direct booking strategies for hotels and the growth strategies of the travel industry’s consolidation-hungry giants.

In Asia, the top 12 hotel booking channels in 2019, based on total gross revenue made for SiteMinder’s customers, were:

1. Booking.com

2. Agoda

3. Expedia Group

4. Hotel websites (direct bookings)

5. Trip.com

6. Hotelbeds

7. Traveloka

8. Goibibo

9. Global distribution systems

10. Flight Centre Travel Group

11. HotelsCombined

12. Tiket.com.