Question: Is there a solution that offers real-time intelligence to optimize distribution strategy and track performance metrics for hotels and short-term rental providers?

Lighthouse is a broad platform that offers market insights, business intelligence and pricing tools for the travel and hospitality industries. It includes a variety of tools, such as market intelligence, rate insight, benchmark insight, distribution insight, parity insight and destination insight. Lighthouse gathers more than 2 billion new hotel rates each day and profiles more than 300,000 competitor hotels, giving you a lot of market data and keeping it fresh. It's good for revenue managers, general managers, sales and marketing managers and property owners who need to set the best revenue and pricing strategies.

For short-term rental companies, AirDNA offers a data analytics service that can help investors, hosts and property managers make more informed decisions. It tracks performance data for more than 10 million Airbnb and Vrbo vacation rentals in 120,000 markets worldwide. Features include a property performance dashboard, custom APIs for integration, investment property insights, competitive market projections and dynamic pricing. It's geared for property managers who want to squeeze as much revenue as possible out of their short-term rentals and optimize their short-term rental portfolio.

Another contender is Innkeeper, an all-in-one hotel management system that combines software and AI tools to help hotels run better and increase revenue. It offers live competitor tracking and rate recommendations, a website creator, live rate tracking, marketing tools and an AI-powered front desk system. Innkeeper's live competitor rate tracking, advanced demand forecasting and dynamic pricing tools make it a good choice for hotels that want to improve guest services and increase direct bookings.