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• RateGain, NYU SPS Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality, and HEDNA released the second edition of 'The State of Distribution 2025' report.
• The report is based on insights from over 700 hotel brands and 21,000+ properties across 310 cities.
• It highlights a gap between technological potential and operational readiness in the hospitality industry.
• Key findings include that AI adoption is still in early stages, commercial strategies vary by scale, distribution functions are becoming leaner, and system integration remains a focus area.
• 80% of hotels spend up to two days a week on manual reporting.
• Ankit Chaturvedi, Vice President of Marketing at RateGain, mentioned that the hospitality industry sees this report as a benchmark for making better commercial decisions.

RateGain Travel Technologies Limited announced on 17 June 2025 that Air Montenegro, the national airline of Montenegro, has selected AirGain by RateGain, its AI-powered airfare pricing intelligence platform. This strategic collaboration aims to enhance Air Montenegro's pricing agility and market competitiveness across Europe.

Key details of the partnership include:

• Air Montenegro will utilize AirGain to gain real-time competitive insights, enabling faster and more confident decision-making.
• The platform will help the airline react swiftly to market changes, ensuring optimal pricing strategies to protect yield and improve load factors.
• AirGain provides access to real-time competitor pricing data from both direct airline websites and indirect channels like Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) and Global Distribution Systems (GDSs).
• The solution allows airline pricing teams to track route-level trends, spot anomalies, benchmark fare positions, and proactively respond to competitor moves through an intuitive dashboard.

Vukadin Stojanović, CEO at Air Montenegro, stated that the partnership allows them to move from reactive to proactive pricing strategies, empowering their teams with reliable data and actionable insights that directly impact commercial performance.

Vinay Varma, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AirGain, commented that Air Montenegro is among the first in the region to adopt their AI-powered platform, VUE, which provides real-time, travel-specific intelligence for sharper decision-making.

Building on this, AirGain will introduce the industry’s first AI-powered Route Performance Digest to Air Montenegro, delivering daily route performance insights to further enhance fare optimization.

• RateGain Travel Technologies Limited (RateGain) announced the launch of a real-time analytics solution for hotel commercial teams on 12 June 2025.
• This solution is designed to overcome challenges faced by commercial teams, providing instant visibility into distribution systems and enabling faster, data-driven decisions.
• It addresses the issue of traditional reporting tools that often overlook the unique needs of distribution teams, leading to manual data compilation and delayed decision-making.
• The new analytics solution helps commercial leaders reduce resource costs, eliminate manual effort, and access real-time insights.
• It processes over 200 billion ARIs annually through RateGain's connectivity platform, delivering a comprehensive health check of distribution performance and a unified, real-time view of the third-party ecosystem.
• Unlike traditional systems that rely on nightly data refreshes, RateGain's solution provides live, actionable intelligence instantly.
• Customers can now analyze cancellation and reservation trends, gain detailed performance insights for each demand partner, and understand booking types by length of stay and PAX.
• The solution also offers intelligent forecasting capabilities by combining historical booking patterns with real-time market signals.
• Bhanu Chopra, Founder and Managing Director, RateGain, stated, "We are now enabling our customers with a greater degree of control and visibility of their third-party distribution ecosystem. With increased volatility, commercial teams need a solution that can guide them instantly to take the right decisions instead of gathering data for days impacting potential revenue opportunities."

• RateGain Travel Technologies Limited has partnered with LIAT (2020) Limited, a Caribbean regional airline, to implement AirGain, a next-generation airfare pricing intelligence platform.
• The collaboration aims to enhance LIAT's commercial operations and provide affordable connectivity across the Caribbean.
• LIAT (2020) Limited started operations in August 2024 and focuses on connecting island economies and boosting regional tourism.
• Hafsah Abdulsalam, CEO of LIAT (2020) Limited, stated that access to real-time pricing intelligence is a strategic necessity for optimizing pricing and reacting to market changes.
• Vinay Varma, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AirGain, mentioned that AirGain's real-time market intelligence will help LIAT protect yield, enhance load factors, and strengthen market share.
• AirGain will also introduce an AI-powered Route Performance Digest to Tunisair to enhance fare optimization and enable data-driven decisions.