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The Problem

Managing B2B Hotel Distribution at scale feels impossible

Instead of focusing on profitable demand, teams are firefighting rate leaks, hidden resellers, unclear channel shift, and fragile integrations that keep failing.

Challenge


The B2B Hotel Distribution market moves almost $100B per year, but fragmentation and lack of transparency make it almost impossible to manage at scale. Hotels struggle to protect rate integrity, contain rising distribution costs, and keep up with cancel-rebook technologies.

Travel Buyers aren’t faring much better. Long contracting cycles and indistinguishable inventory make it hard to stand out, and even when an integration finally goes live, new questions emerge: Is this channel performing as expected? Is the demand truly incremental? Can this success be replicated across hundreds of partners?

From onboarding to optimization, today’s process is weighed down by complexity and intermediaries that add friction and cost at every step.

Solving that end-to-end friction is exactly what The Exchange was built to do.

Viceroy at Ombria Algarve, Portugal Viceroy at Ombria Algarve, Portugal

The Solution

A self-regulating Exchange


Transparency creates accountability. Accountability creates performance.

Hotel Trader’s self-regulating Exchange does more than connect you to the Travel Buyers you choose. It shows exactly where bookings come from, which channels add real value, and how price sensitive each buyer is, so you can optimize for conversion with full distribution control in your hands. Everything from payments, support, and distribution, is managed in a unified platform, making your distribution strategy simpler, more scalable, and fully under your control.

The benefits speak for themselves...
One connection

One connection

Transparent distribution & contracting, instantly.

Onboard in minutes

Onboard in minutes

Go live in under 10 mins, with no complex setup.

AI-driven insights

AI-driven insights

Fuel growth with model-driven recommendations.

Direct to source of truth

Direct to source of truth

100% ARI accuracy from PMS/CRS, no third parties.

Who we serve

Empowering Hotels of every brand, size, & ambition.


Whether you're an Independent Hotel still putting your name on the map, a Hotel Group with significant inventory, or a Global Hotel Chain scaling without disrupting existing systems, The Exchange gives you the tech infrastructure to power modern distribution.

Go live in minutes to unlock instant access to hundreds of Travel Buyers through a single platform, giving every Hotel transparency, autonomy and actionable data - designed for confident growth.

You have limited resources and need distribution that does the hard work for you, so you can focus on delivering the best possible guest experience.

You need a cost-effective distribution solution that puts you in control, protects you from rate leakage, and opens access to new demand channels with clear insight into who is booking your rooms and at what rates.

You need more than dashboards. You need the ability to act. You need a unified platform that doesn’t just surface rate integrity issues, but allows you to enforce rules, adjust strategies, and activate changes globally in a few clicks, all within your existing revenue, payments, operations, and compliance frameworks.

The Newbury Boston The Newbury Boston
Getting started

The future of lightning-fast Hotel onboarding


From 90 days to less than 10 minutes. Say goodbye to manual configuration, policy mismatches, room mapping headaches and endless spreadsheets with HT Supplier Launchpad.

HT Supplier Launchpad is the industry’s first platform for rapid Hotel onboarding.


It removes the traditional friction of linking properties to distribution channels, giving you instant access to the Hotel Trader Exchange, where speed, ARI accuracy, transparency, and automation replace outdated manual processes - all in as little as 10 minutes.

Think of the Launchpad as an extension of your PMS/CRS. With proprietary integrations to leading PMS/CRS partners, it accesses first-party data for property integrity across global travel demand.

Whether you’re a property ready to join the network or a PMS/CRS provider looking to integrate, this is your Launchpad to greater reach, efficiency, transparency, and growth.

Learn More About HT Supplier Launchpad
HT Supplier Launchpad
Sell more, manage less

Direct contracting at scale


Unlock the full value of your direct contracts with Travel Buyers through the Hotel Trader Exchange. One agreement. One connection. One seamless path into Global Distribution.

HT Connect streamlines direct contracting, with no extra builds, no repeated setups, no hidden costs... the result:

  • Instant access to your direct contracts via one connection.
  • Real-time visibility into how pricing, availability, and content are distributed.
  • Work strategically with Travel Buyers & agree bespoke T&Cs.
  • Faster go-live when you add new room types, rate plans, or updates.


Your direct contracts and ARI are automatically mapped with the right configurations, and once live, every update flows through a single, continuous live feed.

With HT Supplier Launchpad, onboarding is faster than ever - no waiting time, no manual back-and-forth, and no lengthy implementation cycles.

What once took months of printing, signing, loading, and testing is now fully automated and done in minutes. Simply search your property, onboard, and connect your direct contracts, effortlessly.

The Verb Hotel Boston The Verb Hotel Boston
Ultimate control

Transparency creates accountability

The Exchange tackles the structural challenges Hotels face at scale... Fragmented distribution, rate leakage, limited visibility into partner behavior, and system overload - and, because it's purpose-built to integrate with your existing tech stack, it restores control, transparency, and efficiency across every channel.

Tighten control & protect net rates with Alignment Score


HT Insights and the Alignment Score connect pricing intent with distribution reality, helping Hotels protect revenue, boost conversion, and minimize leakage. It's your key to unlocking more direct bookings. The Alignment Score measures each Travel Buyer’s ability to book your Hotel directly and shows how closely the rates you intend to sell match what Travel Buyers can actually buy.

Buyers prioritize consistent, trustworthy pricing, so a low Alignment Score signals leakage, undercutting, or misconfigured plans or promotions, while a high Alignment Score confirms that ARI, rate strategies, promotions, and policies are set correctly, reducing leakage and driving direct conversion.

Learn More About Alignment Score
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Fast & secure payments

Collecting payments?
You're covered


Introducing HT Pay, a faster, more secure way to get paid by every Travel Buyer, without manual reconciliation, delays, or back-office friction. Enjoy automated, streamlined payments built on modern FinTech rails to transact in every market.

Automatically receive settlement from all Travel Buyers, from booking to payout, through the methods you already trust, including virtual cards, bank transfers, and sophisticated multi-currency handling that maximizes your distribution power. HT Pay is built for global scale.

How HT Pay works:


We issue tokenized virtual cards for room and tax, support Direct Bill for qualified partners, and keep every booking reconciled end-to-end, so your payments remain accurate, compliant, and fully traceable.

Royalton Park Avenue NYC Royalton Park Avenue NYC
Testimonial

“Hotel Trader makes it simple for hotel partners to connect with qualified buyers through a streamlined and user-friendly platform. Their transparent approach, clear communication, and dedicated support team ensure suppliers can maximize visibility and revenue without unnecessary complexity.”

Kiersty Kastner-Burr

Director International and Leisure Sales | Crescent Hotels & Resorts

Testimonial

“Hotel Trader has transformed the way we connect with the market, giving us wider reach and better control over our distribution. The platform is intuitive, efficient, and backed by a team that truly understands hospitality. It’s been a game-changer for driving revenue and building stronger industry connections.”

Nitin Makhijani

General Manager at Marriott International | Four Points by Sheraton Production City

Testimonial

Hotel Trader has expanded our distribution footprint to multiple booking platforms and allowed us to develop an individual strategy for each rate category, rather than a one-rate-fits-all model.

Consolidating our distribution in this way has helped to reduce the hassle of negotiating individual contracts, brought us to new markets quickly and reduced our receivables risks.

Dustin Personius

Assistant Director of Hotel Operations | Circa/Golden Gate/D Las Vegas

Got questions?

FAQs for Hotels

Hotel Trader is an entirely new category. We are a technology-first B2B platform that facilitates direct relationships between Hotels and Travel Buyers through The Exchange, a self-regulating network built with absolute purpose.

Hotel Trader only connects directly to PMS/CRS systems, avoiding switches, channel managers, third-party APIs, and bed banks for sourcing inventory. There are no tech layers.

Additionally, our proprietary business intelligence suite gives full visibility into the behavior of Travel Buyers, empowering you to unlock opportunities to increase your ADR, reclaim margins and grow revenue while protecting rate integrity.

Unlike a typical marketplace, the Hotel Trader Exchange adds oversight and accountability. We use alignment scores and daily checks to ensure fairness and accuracy, rather than just listing hotels without monitoring.

The Exchange also removes unnecessary layers (such as multiple channel managers), reducing data mismatches and complexity.

By connecting directly with hotels, we become the single source of truth — providing real-time data, eliminating rate gaps, and giving full access to all rate strategies and promotions set by hotel revenue managers.

Because a PMS or CRS are the hotel’s single source of truth. Connecting directly ensures accurate, real-time data, removes rate gaps, and gives full access to all rate strategies and promotions set by hotel revenue managers.

By sourcing rates only from the PMS or CRS – the source of truth – with no intermediaries and no tech layers – we are able to offer Travel Buyers 100% accuracy in ARI and zero booking failures.

Hotel Trader is currently connected to the following PMS/CRS’s:

  • Apaleo
  • Cendyn/Pegasus
  • Cloudbeds
  • D-Edge
  • Dingus
  • Hilton
  • IBS Istay
  • Infor HMS
  • Mews
  • Opera Cloud
  • RVNG/Cendyn
  • SHR Windsurfer
  • SynXis
  • TravelClick
  • WebRezPro

We are continually adding new PMS and CRS connections, so check back or reach out if you do not see your PMS or CRS here.

If you do not see your CRS on our list, please reach out via our contact form. We are always adding new CRS connections and hotel inquiries are among the ways we determine what CRS connections will take priority. We can notify you once your CRS connection has been made.

There is no delay before rate changes or updates go live. The moment a change is made, that information is instantly sent to The Exchange via push API. The ARI in our system always matches the ARI in the PMS or CRS of our Hotels.

Through our Alignment Score, we track Hotel pricing vs. the market in real time and flag when Hotels are out of sync – so they can take action immediately.

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