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Google Flight Search: a dead man walking?

Bobby Healy, one of Google’s most outspoken critics, shares his opinion on what the European Commission’s fine means for flight search, and argues that a dedicated travel industry council might […]

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How to take a bigger piece of the travel pie

  Travel ecommerce has grown rapidly since the emergence of Expedia back in 1995. With the industry now at the point of saturation, it’s time to get savvy with your […]

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Is Google becoming the biggest hotel metasearch engine?

Google has always been a giant of the search world, but now it seems the behemoth is expanding even further to take over the metasearch arena for hotels and travel. […]

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Booking.com Expanding Beyond Hotels Into Flights, Cars and Restaurants

Booking.com is renowned for its hotel-only focus but its homepage now features tabs for flights from Kayak, car rentals from RentalCars.com, and restaurant reservations from OpenTable, all sister companies owned […]

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Guest loyalty through direct channel is cornerstone in struggle with OTAs

A traditional priority for hotels has been to please and satisfy their clients with the clear objective that the client returns to the hotel on his next visit to that […]

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Hotel CEOs Love Direct Booking But Have Varied Views About Strategy

Earlier this month, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts surprised many in the hotel industry when news leaked during its current contract negotiations that the company was threatening to abandon Expedia and […]

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trivago Express Booking – what is this new tool?

  trivago has launched a new tool for its metasearch engine called trivago Express Booking. Just like we did with the launch of TripAdvisor’s Instant Booking and Book on Google, […]

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How TripAdvisor Is Fixing Its Instant Booking Problem

TripAdvisor is the world’s largest travel site as measured by monthly user traffic. Over the past couple of years, in an attempt to better monetize its massive user base, the […]

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What Matters Most for Hotel Mobile Bookings? Speed!!

Mobile bookings are a challenge for the hotel industry. Even as traffic on mobile continues rising to never-before-seen levels, conversion rates on mobile aren’t quite keeping up. What are the […]

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OTAs TripAdvisor, Expedia and Hotels.com Top When Planning Vacations

In a new, first of its kind analysis of combined offline and online consumer conversations, Engagement Labs released its TotalSocial® rankings on the top performing online travel agents (OTAs) in […]

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