tourism leakage
Ripe and GuideGeek Are Building the AI Booking Tool That Cuts Out the OTAs
Online travel agencies charge hotels around 30% commission. Booking.com, Expedia, and their peers built their businesses on that model, and destination marketing organizations have spent years watching revenue and customer data flow out of local economies into platforms headquartered far from the places tourists are actually visiting. Ripe and GuideGeek are building infrastructure to route…
