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The bottom line of Tripadvisor’s annual statements speaks volumes for the financial damage created by an entire year of pandemic-driven travel slowdown.

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more Tripadvisor hopes its new Tripadvisor Plus subscription program, which CEO Steve Kaufer said has parallels to Amazon Prime, will make it a transaction site again and address the shortcomings of its previous attempt to become one. In 2017, after a multiyear effort, Tripadvisor reversed gears and moved away from its Instant Booking initiative, which had it trying to be a hotel-booking site instead to sending its customers off to other online travel agency and hotel sites t...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more Many travel companies that have survived the pandemic have used the pause as an opportunity to reinvent themselves, or at least to launch new product lines that they may or may not have contemplated before masks and hand sanitizer became required accessories. That was one of the four takeaways from Skift’s Online Travel and Distribution Summit, which took place in a virtual event on February 17. Pandemic-Era Product Innovation Saying Certares raised more money for inv...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more Tripadvisor, which just launched a new travel membership program, Tripadvisor Plus, is going all in when it comes to enhancing subscription travel services as its product strategy evolves in a post-pandemic world. The new beta offering costs about $99 a year and allows for savings on 100,000+ hotels, 10 percent of anything booked in the Tripadvisor Experiences Store, and other perks like early check-in at hotels. “With the introduction of Plus, we’re doing a ton of m...

Independent hotels are pushing back against high online travel agency commissions The huge financial toll the pandemic has taken on the travel industry is renewing complaints from hotels, airlines, and tour providers about fees charged by behemoths such as Expedia and Booking.com — some as high as 25 percent. By Jon Marcus Globe Correspondent,Updated February 10, 2021, 12:07 p.m. Email to a Friend Hotels benefit from the nearly $11 billion a year on marketing spent by Expedia and Booking.com.Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg The expensive renovation had barely been completed when the COVID-19 pand...