booking

Expedia brings Meeting Market out of the shadows

  Expedia’s under-the-radar site Meeting Market is looking to expand beyond its current German base and become a pan-European, if not global, portal for the MICE sector. The site brings […]

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A need for speed in business travel booking systems

  Business travellers continue to be frustrated about how long it takes to book travel as well as lack of flexibility in systems says research from Egencia. Expedia’s business travel […]

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Tokyo room rates soar in 2015

  AVERAGE hotel room rates in Asia-Pacific escalated last year, with Tokyo, Sydney and Singapore being the three most expensive cities for hotel bookings, according to research released by corporate […]

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Business travellers split between traditional and alternative booking channels

  Figures from the GBTA Foundation show business travellers from the UK, Germany and France are fairly evenly split between booking via traditional channels and alternative methods. The study shows […]

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Travelport enjoys hotel booking role and payment IT growth

  Travelport hopes to strengthen its position as one of the leading hotel distributors after seeing its total number of booked room nights increased to 65 million in 2015. The company has […]

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Can Technology Improve Your Hotels Direct Bookings?

NB: This is an article by Rachel McCloy, Digital Marketing Specialist with Net Affinity Digital marketing is still a relatively new field, but it has been around long enough to […]

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Airbnb rentals now 9% of room inventory in major cities

  Airbnb accommodations now account for 9% of the total lodging units in the 10 largest U.S. markets and appeared to be adding units at a substantially faster clip than […]

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Travelzoo to grow hotel search and China bookings

  Deals publisher Travelzoo appears to be pivoting towards hotel search, eyeing up China and taking a quality not quantity approach to new members, according to a growth strategy overview […]

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Expedia Introduces Bidding for Hotel Listings

  In what may ultimately develop into a massive change in the way online travel agencies and hotels do business with one another, Expedia Inc. has quietly introduced changes in […]

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Independent Hotels sleepwalking into era of increased OTA dependency

NB: This is an article by John Kearney, Director of Hotelient For over 15 years that I have been within this industry, Independent hotels here in Europe have been always […]

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