Field Notes

Hospitality marketing notes, from 18° to 20° North.

Direct booking tactics, locals program teardowns, email plays that actually book. What’s working at boutique hotels, restaurants, and vacation rentals across the USVI, Caribbean, and Riviera Maya.

Hotel Channel Manager Comparison: How to Pick the Right One (2026)

Boutique beachfront hotel with pool and loungers at sunset, the kind of independent property a hotel channel manager helps keep booked across OTAs

If you run a small hotel or a handful of rooms, you already know the daily headache: logging into Booking.com, then Expedia, then Airbnb, updating the same rates and availability three times, and still ending up with the occasional double-booking that forces an awkward phone call to a guest. A channel manager is the tool […]