How Reliant are Hotels on OTAs?
They are fully dependent on OTAs as they are the face of all the hotels and they provide them business and further hotels will get profit so it is good for them moreover they also provide full support if there persist any problem and further to conclude customers also get benefit from them as they offer discounting price
You are right but there are some disadvantages like higher commissions, unwanted terms and conditions which effect the hotels profitability i think this is the biggest issue they face and this is the biggest thing on which GOeureka has worked upon so once the platform will get live it will going to disrupt the OTAs fully.
If you are talking price than OTAs make fool of their consumers by providing more prices more than the hotel first they increase the price by a percentage than reduce it by some percentage and hotel will get the amount they want and rest amount is kept by OTAs as their profit but in GOeureka platform customers will directly talk with hotel owners for there bookings so they will not get fooled