Hospitality Tech Left Out of Lodging Convergence: New Skift Research
Skift Take
Lines between hotels, short-term rentals and other accommodation types are blurring, but we see little merging in the business-to-business tech spaces that support these sectors. This will change, but there are some major barriers to overcome first.
We are experiencing a great merging, or sped-up convergence, between different sectors of the travel accommodation industry. Hotels and short-term rentals are at the forefront, as the largest and fastest growing sectors respectively.
Today, the convergence is most prominent on booking platforms, where hotels and rentals are now offered side-by-side, blurring the lines betw
