How much OTA commissions really cost you

Online travel agencies (OTAs) like Booking, Expedia or Airbnb are a huge source of bookings. But every booking that comes through them has a cost: the commission. And at month’s end, that percentage adds up.

The invisible cost of every booking

A typical OTA commission runs between 15% and 25% of the booking value. If your hotel makes most of its sales through channels, you’re giving away a meaningful slice of your margin without noticing.

How to win part of that margin back

• Have your own booking engine, with no per-booking commission.
• Appear on metasearch (Google, Trivago, Tripadvisor) with your Official Site.
• Sync everything with a channel manager so you never overbook.

With Octopus24, your channel manager, booking engine and metasearch all live in one place — and we charge no commission on your bookings.