<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Rosso Consulting · Writing</title><description>Essays on hospitality distribution, AI deployment, channel economics, and the operator-buyer interface. Written by Marco Rosso.</description><link>https://rossoconsulting.ch/</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>© 2026 Rosso Consulting. Lugano, Switzerland.</copyright><managingEditor>marco@rossoconsulting.ch (Marco Rosso)</managingEditor><webMaster>marco@rossoconsulting.ch (Marco Rosso)</webMaster><item><title>The Rate Parity Trap</title><link>https://rossoconsulting.ch/writing/rate-parity-trap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossoconsulting.ch/writing/rate-parity-trap/</guid><description>How OTA promotions quietly eat your direct bookings while you maintain &quot;parity.&quot;</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Distribution</category><author>marco@rossoconsulting.ch (Marco Rosso)</author></item><item><title>Your hotel is winning the click — and losing the booking</title><link>https://rossoconsulting.ch/writing/winning-the-click/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossoconsulting.ch/writing/winning-the-click/</guid><description>The conversion gap between OTAs and direct is not a pricing problem. It is a product problem.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Direct</category><author>marco@rossoconsulting.ch (Marco Rosso)</author></item><item><title>The one skill that will define luxury hotel leadership in the AI era</title><link>https://rossoconsulting.ch/writing/luxury-skill-ai-era/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossoconsulting.ch/writing/luxury-skill-ai-era/</guid><description>It is not &quot;AI strategy&quot; or &quot;human touch.&quot; It is the judgment to know what is neither.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI · Luxury</category><author>marco@rossoconsulting.ch (Marco Rosso)</author></item><item><title>Online vs offline: why your hotel is undervaluing its offline channel</title><link>https://rossoconsulting.ch/writing/online-vs-offline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossoconsulting.ch/writing/online-vs-offline/</guid><description>The hotel industry spent fifteen years chasing online — and learned to undervalue what it left behind.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Channels</category><author>marco@rossoconsulting.ch (Marco Rosso)</author></item></channel></rss>