Paraskevas, Alexandros ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1556-5293 (2026) OTA Risk and Resilience Review: strategic risk intelligence for online travel intermediaries, H1 2026. Technical Report. University of West London.

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Abstract

This edition of the OTA Risk and Resilience Review covers the thirteen listed online travel intermediaries over the six months from 1 January to 30 June 2026. It reads what each company disclosed against an externally sourced record of what was happening around it. The half year contained a real external shock. On 28 February the United States and Israel struck Iran, Gulf airspace closed within a week, and jet fuel roughly doubled. The sector absorbed it. Every large intermediary reporting after March grew revenue at a double digit rate, and the damage appears as a reduction in the rate of growth rather than a contraction. Capacity to respond and prior disclosure of the risk turn out to be largely unrelated. Quantification became standard practice inside eight weeks. What outlasts the conflict is the cost base, with jet fuel forecast at $152 a barrel across 2026. Five exposures carry into the next edition.

Item Type:	Report (Technical Report)
Subjects:	Hospitality and tourism > Tourism > Aviation Hospitality and tourism > Hospitality > Risk and reputation management Hospitality and tourism > Tourism
Date Deposited:	12 Nov 2026
Dates:	Date Publication status 30 September 2026 Accepted
School, department or research centre:	ICHARM (International Centre for Hospitality and Aviation Resilience Management) London Geller College of Hospitality and Tourism
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/15790

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