Travel Tech CEO Series: DerbySoft Prepares for a Hotel Distribution Free-for-All
Photo Credit: CEO Ted Zhang has led the Shanghai-based DerbySoft to be a central connectivity provider between global hotel groups and giant online travel players. DerbySoft
Skift Take
DerbySoft has thrived as a vendor that helps global hotel groups with distribution partly because its top boss Ted Zhang called the rise of Booking.com early on. Zhang's latest predictions about what's next for the industry may ruffle some feathers.
Editor's Note: This year we expanded our coverage of the technology companies that do the behind-the-scenes work of powering the systems of the world's major travel companies.
This is the final Q&A in a series of conversations with industry leaders.
Our Travel Tech CEO Listening Series has showcased the industry's top minds revealing where business-to-business travel tech is heading.
On any given day, the typical hotel sees between a third and half of its rooms filled by guests who booked their stays via third-party sites such as Booking.com, Expedia, and Ctrip.
But the rise of digital distribution didn't happen overnight, of course, and many companies powered the trend. One of the most representative and significant of these companies is DerbySoft, a Shanghai-based vendor of connectivity solutions to hotels.
DerbySoft is best known for building custom software for the world’s largest hotel chains, including Hilton, Marriott, and InterContinental Hotels Group (I
