26 April 2022 | Hotels and Restaurants
Booking-Better, a direct booking site with solidarity
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13 April 2022 | Europe 1
Jean François Maes interviewed in the program "La France qui bouge" on Europe 1 about Booking Better.
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12 April 2022 | Les Echos
The commission-free collaborative hotel booking platform founded by a French hotelier is positioned as an alternative to OTAs.
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12 April 2022 | Geo
The first thing you need to think about before you leave is your accommodation, which is a major expense when you travel. To reduce the cost of your night in a hotel, here are 5 tips for paying less for your hotel.
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5 April 2022 | Infotravel
Booking-better.com initiates a model breakthrough. The first direct online accommodation booking service, without commission and with solidarity.
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4 April 2022 | Le Figaro magazine
GOOD PLACE - These French start-ups have come up with different hotel packages that are advantageous in many ways and are likely to change our habits. Here is our selection.
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29 March 2022 | Tomtravel
"Booking-better: "We don't want to compete head-on with OTAs
The new accommodation booking service wants to enable hoteliers to increase their direct sales, while offering an alternative to OTAs. Without commission, accommodation providers will nevertheless have to pay a monthly subscription fee."
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March 23, 2022 | Jaimelesstartups.fr
"The start-up Booking Better is a direct hotel booking platform."
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18 March 2022 | Hotelseconews.com
"Booking-better.com: the first direct online accommodation booking service, without commission and with solidarity.
E-tourism represents 46% of the French market and more than 75%* of online hotel bookings are made via online travel agencies (OTA - Online Tourism Agencies) such as Booking, Expedia or Hotels.com. However, the commissions charged by these operators are substantial: 5 to 30% and significantly impute the accommodation providers (10 to 20% of their margin).
Based on this observation, the Booking-better.com platform is initiating a new model aimed at strengthening the customer experience and enhancing the value of the accommodation provider through a direct relationship, without intermediaries or commissions, which preserves the establishments' margins.
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17 March 2022 | Challenges
"Booking-better.com initiates a breakthrough model: The 1st direct online accommodation booking service, without commission and with solidarity."
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17 March 2022 | Benzinga France
"Booking-better.com initiates a model breakthrough: The 1st direct online accommodation booking service, without commission and in solidarity."
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March 17, 2022 | TourMag
"Accommodation : Booking-better, the commission-free platform!
The business model of Booking-better.com is based on a subscription offer.
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4 March 2022 | BSmart Le Lab
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10 May 2021 | Le Parisien Aujourd'hui en France
"Tourism: the hotelier launches its collaborative online booking platform to resist Booking and Expedia
In Alsace, Jean-François Maes has designed a collaborative booking platform to counter the sector's leaders and encourage the short circuit."
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20 May 2021 | France 3 Alsace
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May 7, 2021 | France 3 Alsace
"Bas Rhin: a hotelier takes on the giants of online booking with his Booking Better platform.
Booking, Expedia, Hotels.com... The big names in online booking do not scare Jean-François Maes. This Alsatian hotelier has launched his collaborative and supportive platform: "Booking Better". Better for customers and professionals, he says. Here are some explanations."
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30 April 2021 | Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace
"Booking Better, the hotel platform that is taking on the big boys
A hotelier in Reichstett, Jean-François Maes has launched a collaborative hotel booking platform. In three months, 300 hotels in France have already joined Booking Better, which is a direct competitor to Booking and Expedia, but with fewer commissions.
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