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A Friendly Take on the Current OTA Landscape — Without Sugarcoating the Realities. After years of impressive momentum, the U.S. online travel agency (OTA) market is showing signs of leveling off.
Not all reservations are created equal — do you know their origin? HMS, Inc. has been recognized by Top Third-Party Management Companies...
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Aug 1, 20253 min read


The Stories We Tell Are Really the Experience We Carry
People have said to me more than once, “Paul, you have more hotel stories than anyone I’ve ever met.” I mostly take it as a compliment. But I’ll be honest: sometimes it makes me pause. When you have spent decades in hotels, one story leads to another, and before you know it, you are talking about a guest situation from years ago, a pre-opening lesson, a crisis that unfolded at 2:00 in the morning, a young manager who became a leader, or some impossible operational moment that
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