Starting a hotel-booking or airline-booking website, anyone tried?



Among other out of the box ideas already posted here may I suggest a few more?

- an affiliate marketing forum
- social networking site exclusive to certain universities
- a site with a bazillion pixels where you sell each pixel to an advertiser for just $1
- torrent site. just check tpb founders, they're banking hard

Stay innovative my friends
 
jeffrey said:
Maybe he should start selling a keyword research and serp competition tool as well.
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Hey dumbfuck? He has a reputation in a built-in market. No different than opening another insurance agency out of thousands of agencies because someone has an in-road with a large ethnic community.

But... you've proven time and time again you don't know shit about marketing.


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Nope have always wanted to build a hotel site... Back at my old house, the guy who owned Hotels.com lived a few homes down. This was YEARS ago before it got huge, and went all over tv. He drove a brand new Range Rover and his license plate was HOTELS.. Anyways thought I'd share; so badass, kind of inspired me to get into internet marketing.
 
danke said:
Hey dumbfuck? He has a reputation in a built-in market. No different than opening another insurance agency out of thousands of agencies because someone has an in-road with a large ethnic community.

But... you've proven time and time again you don't know shit about marketing.


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I posted a response, but then I realized you're too fucking stupid and didn't merit a real response.
 
blogspotter said:
But the commission potential is better with Payday, Raspberry ketone, Insurance, loans?

Here is a serious answer though. Start a niche travel site first. Go super niche.. Target a place in say, asia, which have decent volume but low competition. Create tons of content, good content..

And then put flight and hotel affiliate offers. That is your only bet.

Scale..
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I do this. 15% on Hotels.com bookings can yield some very nice comissions once someone books a 5 star resort for a forthnight.
 
ameyer said:
There are tons of small travel comparison websites that do just fine with affiliate programs from kayak, booking.com, expedia, etc. most of those are probably operated out of living rooms by faggots, without any huge orbitz office.
some even go more direct, some seem to have direct affiliate programs with airlines, they just redirect you to the booking page of the airline or hotel (pre-popped) instead of doing the whole transaction like expedia.
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finally someone that gets it!

that's exactly what I was thinking of, something like cheaflights.com.. c.f. you extract search results from other booking sites, you're basically just an affiliate.

I'm surprised no one tried it yet..
 
EvilPenguin said:
finally someone that gets it!

that's exactly what I was thinking of, something like cheaflights.com.. c.f. you extract search results from other booking sites, you're basically just an affiliate.

I'm surprised no one tried it yet..
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Hey... Don't let us tell you what you can or cannot do. If you're passionate about it then go for it!

Just be wary of building a business that relies on SEO.

Good luck.
 
nomak said:
Why waste your time with super saturated markets, bro? Why not build a new search engine, you only have 3 competitors. You could get someone to code the shit out of your WP theme search function and become a multibillionaire.
Good luck, bro!
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Bingoo ?
 
EvilPenguin said:
anybody here attempted to start an airline or hotel booking site? Seems to me that the commission potential is awesome and it's all an SEO game for the most part since most people now book online for hotels and flights.

what are the main challenges? I'm thinking that setting up the website itself shouldn't be that hard. There's probably tons of apps and plugins already made for this.. maybe even WordPress themes and plugins.

what do you guys think? Worth jumping into? Too much hassle? Discuss.
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I've been in and around the tourism industry for the last 6 years. Interestingly, in terms of employment it's in the top five industries in the world. It is also massively competitive.

This is my very own tourism product: CliftonTMS - Tourism Marketing Made Simple We're looking for partners to sell this software, pm me if you're interested.

For a website I would go very niche (something like gay tours to Iceland). Definitely avoid the mass market unless you have a mega budget and know a lot of people in the industry.

If you're selling rooms you need a booking engine that's plugged into multiple channels. If you're selling tours you'll need the same.
 
I know the guys behind webjet and a few other big players in Australia. They say that the majority of the money comes in through branded searches rather than organic stuff such as 'cheap flights to <country> from <country>'. I thought that stuff would've converted killer, but apparently it sucks compared to people searching for 'webjet' and they spend a massive amount per year on branding and advertisements to get those type of searches.
 
Build a real business. Use what you know about marketing to make it a success.

Are you really, truly excited about being a network for people to find hotels and airfare? If so, then have a swing at it. But if it doesn't bring you morning wood and happens to be the best idea the Good Idea Fairy had to give you, then I'd cut my losses while you're ahead and start focusing more on some soul searching and inspiration. Afterwards, revisit the drawing board.
 
tencentpiece said:
I know the guys behind webjet and a few other big players in Australia. They say that the majority of the money comes in through branded searches rather than organic stuff such as 'cheap flights to <country> from <country>'. I thought that stuff would've converted killer, but apparently it sucks compared to people searching for 'webjet' and they spend a massive amount per year on branding and advertisements to get those type of searches.
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I can see that being the case. I travel two weekends a month and generally get my flights through Expedia or Kayak and my hotel through Hotwire or Hotels.com and I've NEVER considered typing in hotel deals + city or something.
 
I've never thought of it but I don't type flights or hotels in google. I do it for everything else but I just don't do it for flights and hotel. I normally type kayak, expedia or priceline.

Might be because of all the branding brainwashing they do.
 
most people I know do google up "cheap flights to city-name" or "cheap flights from x to x" and the funny thing is that they would try all of the results and even go to the 2nd and 3rd page of Google to make sure they can't find a better price.
 
Kayak is being bought by priceline for $1.8bn.
So yeah, there is a lot of money in travel comparison.
 
Commissions aren't as great as you think. I looked it up once and it was around 5-10% at most. You need high volume to bank.
 
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