Released on: March 14, 2008, 11:03 pm

Press Release Author: ThatPRGuy.com

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary: Hotelliers in attendance at the ITB Berlin conference have
discovered the truth about the online hotel reservation and booking industry in a
report completed by Herman Thuy and released through Interbed.

Press Release Body: Pierrefitte-es-Bois, France - Hotel owners and managers
attending the ITB Berlin conference discovered a report that reveals how online
hotel reservation and booking agencies are blocking travelers from making
reservations directly with the hotel of their choice.

More than 60 percent of travelers are now going online to make reservations, but
often cannot book directly with a hotel because the reservations agencies use
tactics that make it nearly impossible for consumers to make a direct connection
with a specific hotel.

The free report - "The Hotel Reservations Scam, and What to Do About It" - authored
by travel industry expert, Herman Thuy, is offered online at
http://www.Interbed.com. In it he details what he calls the "dirty tricks" used by
booking agents and booking web sites to control the travel consumer. He then
explains how hotel managers and owners can quickly and easily reverse this to regain
business the booking agents are trying to take away.

"Use a search engine the way travel consumers use it," Thuy advises hotel owners and
managers. "Search for two words, your city and hotel. Your web site will not be on
that first page because the scam artists control all those listings. Consumers
cannot find your hotel, simply because it doesn't show up when they do a search,"
explained Thuy.

Thuy's report clearly shows how individual hotels can overcome this disadvantage and
be found by travel consumers, and beat the reservations brokers at their own game.

"Market surveys of travel consumers reveal that when given the choice, travelers
prefer to deal directly with the hotel of their choice," said Thuy. "Booking agents
do not want that to happen, so they hijacked online reservations with their
desperate tactics."

Hotelliers are learning the value of listing their hotel on http://www.Interbed.com
where the traveling consumer can quickly and easily locate a hotel and then make a
reservation directly with that hotel, without going through a booking agency.

"Consumers do not like the idea of a booking agency charging high fees to hotels any
more than the hotel owners and managers do. Travelers always prefer to book direct
with a hotel, and that is why they use Interbed to find local hotels, make
comparisons, and then book direct," said Thuy.


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Web Site: http://www.Interbed.com

Contact Details: Herman Thuy
+33 238 312 996 (landline)
+33 608 821 623 (mobile)
hthuy@interbed.com
hermanthuy (Skype)