If COVID-19 wasn’t already enough of a challenge for travel agents, a new OTA has entered the ring.

Webjet has pushed back at damaging “inaccuracies” in an analyst report on the OTA, which contributed to its dire share price earlier this week.

Trivago has responded to the Federal Court’s ruling that it misled consumers about hotel room rates on its website and in its TV ads. Find out what the OTA had to say here.

An OTA using dodgy tactics is like a red rag to a bull for agents, so best take a couple of deep breaths and prepare a pillow to scream in before reading this.

Travel Weekly understands Intrepid’s office party planner has ordered dumplings, prawn toast and san choy bau from the local Chinese restaurant in celebration of this new deal.

First it was speculation that Webjet was looking to acquire, and now it’s the other way around. Make sense of it all here.

Booking.com’s regional boss kicked off this year’s Travel Tech. Summit with an insightful keynote. Find out what she had to say here.

Agoda’s ‘Agojis’ front the OTA’s new brand campaign, which are not to be confused with emojis, animojis, Bitmojis, or Memojis.

Do you live in constant fear of the power and might of OTAs? Well, it might be best to skip over this news then.

Do you try to keep tabs on OTAs? Well, Travel Weekly has saved you from doing some of the legwork here.

It looks like TripAdvisor is moving and shaking its way further into paid advertising options; more elegantly, might we add, than Travel Weekly’s editor on the dance floor.

Do you work for an OTA and are tired of time-wasters? Travelport’s Scott Barber has penned this handy piece on how to turn pesky browsers into buyers.