Why is it better then Booking.com? How would you put lower commissions?
For a company like Booking.com to directly compete with us would mean they need to scale down their business tremendously. It is not feasible for them to do so seeing their revenue model is purely based on charging commissions to hotels (10-30%). For them to scale down their business to a level where they charge 0% commissions is simply not viable. They even charge hotels to show up higher on the search results (something GOeureka is not going to do. Instead, we will base hotel ranking on customer feedback and the amount of features that are provided to customers).
It is not going to be easy for hotels to accept crypto currency payments directly. Therefore, for bookings that are made via cryptocurrency, Goeureka will carry out the conversion from Crypto to Fiat and pay out the hotels (with no commissions charged). We will also be accepting payments via Credit cards and our GOT token. Any booking made via credit cards and other cryptocurrencies will be charged a 5% transaction fee. The benefit of using our token is that the customer will not be liable to pay the 5% transaction fee and will be able to access further discounts for hotel rooms that are connected to our platform.
Another point to note is the high commissions being charged by Online Travel Agents (OTAs) (anywhere from 10-30%). Prices of hotel rooms have increased because hotels need to factor these commissions into their room pricing structure.
While hotels are reliant on OTAs to offload inventory, they would phase them out given the opportunity. We are presenting this opportunity to the hotel industry and we have received a very positive response from the hotels we are dealing with.
Our token will be utilised to access discounts for hotel rooms on the GOeureka platform and to facilitate the interoperability of hotel loyalty rewards. Every hotel knows the fiat value of their loyalty reward point and we are working on a solution for customers to convert their existing hotel points to a fiat value (GO credits) and utilise these credits towards a room booking at another hotel on our platform.