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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tracking and quantifying the whole customer journey through optimisation
NB: This is an article by Brian Taylor, Digital Managing Director of Jaywing, via Travolution With the full onslaught of winter upon us, it’s natural that people find themselves dreaming […]
Hotel data knowledge + visibility: Why you should understand these essential metrics
NB: This is an article from SiteMinder, a leading cloud platform for hotels including The Channel Manager and TheBookingButton Do you know the percentage breakdown of guests in your […]
Why mobile travel chat will revolutionize online travel bookings
NB: This is a viewpoint by Matt Zito, managing partner at Travel Startups Incubator. Since online travel agencies (OTAs) first appeared around 15 years ago, few tears have been […]
5 ways hotels can improve direct online booking conversion
NB: This is an article by Katie Colangelo, Director of Business Development at Ve Interactive Hoteliers have a lot of room to improve in 2016 when it comes to converting […]
