Lyric, which launched in 2014, caters its spaces - which it calls Creative Suites - to professionals seeking accommodations for between 2 and 200 days on Airbnb, HomeAway, Booking.com, and other hospitality marketplaces.

It partners with local landlords and businesses (including 20 of the National Multifamily Housing Council’s top 50 developers) to build out properties and curate art, music, and coffee programs, and it facilitates site management through a dashboard and backend that secures each location, manages revenue, handles guest registration, and automates background checks and digital access.

United chief commercial officer Andrew Nocella went on to say that United will instead focus on working with distribution partners better suited to selling its product. Hesaid Expedia "has been historically very good at selling our lowest fares, but quite honestly, we think we can sell our lowest fares just as well."

Among the Expedia Group websites that would stop selling United are Expedia.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire and CheapTickets. The travel management company Egencia would not be impacted.

Ferry bookings to cross the English Channel surged 40 percent overnight after the U.K. and EU agreed last week to delay Brexit until October.

The uptick in demand comes after airlines and tour operators warned that Brexit could make for weaker bookings for the crucial summer season in 2019.

Referred to as next-generation retailing, the model involves multiple aspects and opportunities, and it applies to hotels in any location and at every tier.

One key opportunity is in unbundling room attributes - such as floor level, balcony, ocean view and frequency of housekeeping service - and selling each as an add-on to enable guests to personalize their experience around their budget and what matters most to them.

In these scenarios, a new strategy is needed. The team at Waze believes it has created the solution for which marketers are looking, and it’s calling that solution destination-based marketing.

Destination-based marketing refers to a way of targeting on-the-go consumers. Rather than targeting mobile ads based on consumer’s real-time, real-world locations, Waze will now be using its driver navigation data to help advertisers anticipate where consumers are going and ultimately influence their decision-making through mobile marketing.

Today, data is a key component of any industry, and hospitality is no exception. Now more than ever it can be used to lift the lid on customer behavior and provide optimization opportunities that result in more bookings.

That's why OTAs increasingly invest in data-driven features such as automation, machine learning, and predictive analytics. Without a budget that matches that of OTAs, hotels need to develop new ways of collecting and analyzing data that helps them to better understand their guests and drive more direct bookings.

With a staggering one billion monthly active users, Instagram’s undeniable power to influence consumer decision-making continues to grow.

To inspire your Instagram marketing strategy, here’s Travel Tripper's 2019 edition of the top 10 hotels on Instagram.