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Hotel booking sites actually make it hard to get cheap deals, but there's a way around it

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Booking a place to stay on holidays has become a reflex action.

The first thing many of us do is open a site such as Wotif, Hotels.com or trivago (all of which are these days owned by the US firm Expedia), or their only big competitor, Booking.com from the Netherlands.

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