Hotels want to break Web site habit

January 27, 2004 |

U.S. hotel operators want to break the dependence on Web sites like Expedia and Travelocity that many developed during the three-year slump in travel.

U.S. hotel operators want to break the dependence on Web sites like Expedia and Travelocity that many developed during the three-year slump in travel, executives said this week.

Expecting the rush to the Internet to increase, lodging companies are looking for ways to limit the appeal of such third-party sites and to improve their own offerings.

“We created this monster,” Best Western President and Chief Executive Thomas Higgins said during a panel at the American Lodging Investment Summit, an industry conference, in Los Angeles.

“There has got to be room for both of us.”

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