Can Webervations upload my availability to Travelocity and Expedia?
Actually we could if there were enough users that wanted us to do so, but you might want to consider a better solution. While the Internet was not specifically designed to cut out the middleman, that is what the Internet and next generation programs like Webervations enables. Today you can buy automobiles, computers, virtually anything, directly from the manufacturer or supplier over the Internet – bypassing the added cost of the middleman. Selling your rooms on travel Web sites like Travelocity and Expedia actually involves layer upon layer upon layer upon layer of middlemen with additional commissions being added on every layer of what could best be pictured as a pyramid of middlemen. The travel reservation industry easily and quickly transitioned to the Internet because prior to the Internet they in effect had their own private Intranet. In their move to the Internet they quickly cut costs by removing one of their own layers of middlemen, the neighbor travel agents, and replaced the
