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Expedia Inc.’s chief executive officer is expecting more company in the world of online travel booking, predicting Facebook Inc. will follow Google into the business. Facebook is already working on […]

It would be fair to say that the conversation around instant booking on travel search sites has been broadly supportive of the concept so far. Ever since March 2011, when […]

Technology is proving to be something of a double edged sword for the big hotel chains. On the one hand it’s helping them to engage with guests through easily scalable […]

NB: This is an article by Max Starkov, President and CEO of HeBS Digital Background: The year of 2016 will be the first in which OTA revenues in the U.S. […]

Affiliate sites and online travel agencies have kicked brands out of first-page search results, according to a new report by L2. Across 452 non-branded keywords, TripAdvisor had the highest first-page […]

TripAdvisor president and chief executive Steve Kaufer admitted there was initial push back from hotels about Instant Book because he did a “phenomenally terrible” job explaining it. Speaking at this […]

Way back in the swinging sixties of the internet age (about five years ago), the roles of the major players in the travel industry were quite simple. Google was for […]

Turkish hotel group, IC Hotels, claims it now achieves more than 18% of bookings from direct marketing campaigns and as a result reduced commission levels to 3%.  IC Hotels has […]

Book. Stay. Go., a leading mobile hotel solution for business, mobile, and millennial travelers, today announced the launch of the hotel industry’s first SaaS-enabled marketplace, featuring mobile check-in and mobile […]

You could almost feel the air being sucked out of the room as Oliver Heckmann of Google closed off Day 1 of Phocuswright Dublin with a talk on everything the […]