Case Study: e-Travel stops bad bots, protects online data and cuts GDS & affiliate costs with Distil Networks

e-Travel protects the integrity of its online data, affiliate program, look-tobook ratios, and GDS pull costs with Distil Networks

e-Travel SA is a fast-growing e-commerce travel specialist (11 sites, 42 languages, ~1.5M travelers/year) that faced persistent automated threats: competitors’ scraping bots stealing pricing and content, denial-of-service spikes, and bot-driven clicks that skewed look-to-book ratios and inflated advertising and GDS pull costs. A homegrown mitigation effort couldn’t keep up, straining technical and team resources and disrupting legitimate customer traffic.

e-Travel deployed Distil Networks’ virtual appliance, which integrated quickly with their ELK stack, HAProxy and AWS. Distil stopped scraping and bot-driven traffic, eliminated site slowdowns, restored the integrity of look-to-book and affiliate metrics, reduced GDS costs, and delivered measurable ROI — backed by responsive, ongoing support — allowing e-Travel to roll the solution out across its other sites.

e-Travel

Nick Bitounis

Director IT