technology

Drive Direct Revenue with New Booking Platform

Travel Tripper, the industry’s most innovative provider of hotel reservation and e-commerce solutions, today announced the launch of Travel Tripper Web (TT Web). This new website platform for hotels increases […]

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The hotel tech Trojan horse

NB: This is a viewpoint by Mike Ford, managing director of SiteMinder. Oh yes, a horse is on its way to Troy as you read this. Or, has it arrived? As […]

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Expedia Expects Facebook to Follow Google Into Travel

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 […]

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Caution urged over instant booking trend on metasearch sites

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 […]

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TravelClick looking to the future with Demand360

Since being acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $930 million in early 2014, TravelClick, a New York-based provider of B2B distribution and marketing services for hotels, says its […]

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Regional search prime opportunities for hotels

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 […]

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TripAdvisor chief on Instant Book and hotel direct campaigns

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 […]

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10 key learning points from Hoteliers at WIT (Pt 1)

Key industry players geared up to “Reboot” and tackle the big issues like how to surf the wave of technology that pervades the industry (without being caught in the riptide), […]

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Book. Stay. Go. Launches SaaS Marketplace

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 […]

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Google wants to become our personal travel assistant

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 […]

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