booking

  Digital agency Fuel has released its annual research on how leisure travellers are researching and booking hotels. The agency, which specialises in marketing for hotels, says it has compiled […]

  Direct phone calls, emails and walk-ins account for one in every three reservations made within the small accommodation industry, Little Hotelier has found. The finding is part of the […]

  NB: This is an article by Pete DiMaio of Fuel Travel We recently met with a hotel whose occupancy was comprised nearly 50% by OTA bookings. One out of […]

  NB: This is an article by Doug Kennedy of Kennedy Training Network There are a number of tactics that a reservations sales agent can be trained to use when […]

  Online travel-booking engines rarely change. So any wrinkle introduced by a company is bound to get a lot of close examination. Witness the industry’s attention to Expedia Inc’s gradual […]

  Direct distribution channels now account for more than 85% of sales at Travelodge, the budget chain revealed while issuing annual financial results for last year. The company’s mobile app […]

  Trivago, the Expedia Inc-affiliated metasearch brand, officially said today that it has taken a majority investment in a Swiss startup, Base7Booking, which offers a cloud-based property management system (PMS) […]

  Amadeus has officially launched its Selling Platform Connect in the UK, which it claims is the world’s first fully online GDS booking and fulfilment platform. The company claims it has […]

NB: This is an article from SiteMinder The global hotel industry has evolved continuously of late and there’s a lot more change to come, according to a new report outlining […]

  Since Chris Anderson wrote “The web is dead. Long live the Internet” in 2010, a pivotal article announcing the demise of traditional web browsing, the topic has been endlessly […]