From'Owning Resources' to'Connecting Resources': The New Role of Travel Platforms

The development history of tourism platforms is essentially a history of resource integration.
Early platforms created value by aggregating hotel and flight resources; later platforms gained advantages by mastering user traffic; and today, with the continuous improvement of digitalization, the role of platforms is undergoing new changes.
The value of the past platform lies in having resources.
Own more hotels.
Have more flights.
Own more supply chains.
But in the future, platform value may no longer come from ownership, but from connectivity.
This is a general trend in the development of the digital economy.
The platform does not necessarily need to have all resources, but it must have the ability to connect resources. Connect users and services, connect destinations and needs, connect data and scenarios.
This is especially true in the tourism industry.
Because tourism itself is a highly decentralized industry. Airlines, hotels, scenic spots, transportation service providers, content creators, and consumers are all in different systems.
The truly valuable platform is not necessarily the largest resource owner, but the best connector.
What Coinsidings is trying to build is also such a connection logic. By using digital technology and open structures, it organizes the originally scattered tourism elements, forming a more efficient interactive relationship between users, resources, and scenarios.
This change means that the platform role is being upgraded.
From a transaction intermediary to an ecosystem coordinator.
From a resource manager to a value connector.
The future development of the tourism industry may no longer depend on how many resources the platform has, but on how many resources the platform can activate.