Online
What Hotel Chains Can Learn from Booking Aggregators
More and more travelers prefer to make their hotel (or flight, or car) reservations directly on the brand’s website—direct bookings outnumber aggregator bookings three-to-one. Although the big online aggregators still […]
Conversational commerce: killer direct channel to customer or confusing?
Driving so-called ‘conversational commerce’ is the next phase in the travel company customer relationship but it’s a complicated affair. In what Thomson is hailing as an ‘industry first’, last week […]
Inside the London usability lab of Expedia
Walking through what could have been mistaken for a door into a boiler room in Expedia’s modern London offices in Angel, you wouldn’t think you were entering a hub where […]
Airlines’ customer engagement on social media is critical to success
Forget being put on hold on the phone – customers today make a beeline for the airlines’ social media handles and work their way from there. From updates on crises, […]
Exploring the rise of Mega Online Travel Retailers
NB: This is an article from Amadeus Online travel shoppers are often oblivious to which site they use to make a purchase, whether it is a metasearch or an OTA […]
Airbnb Trips presents airlines with a digital ancillary revenue masterclass
For any airline concerned about keeping control of their relationships with their customers and leveraging digital channels to boost ancillary revenues, the launch of Airbnb’s “Trips” should serve as a wake-up […]
Why mobile micro-moments and dayparting are the trends to watch in 2017
As 2016 draws to a close, there has been one movement that has surpassed them all during the last 12 months – mobile. There are more than 128 million Google […]
5 Ways to Drive Direct Bookings for the Modern Traveler
How do young, modern travelers behave online? What connects to them, and how can your hotel use that information to drive direct bookings through your hotel website? Google’s Consumer Barometer […]
3 Fundamental Practices of Metasearch Management
We all know the power of 101 – fundamental knowledge. In practice, what is fundamental leads to advanced applications and continuous pursuit of improvement. Today we wanted to share some […]
Using online information to define and refine your hotel competitive edge
The tourism trade contributed about US$7.2 trillion to the global economy in 2015, and with so much wealth at stake, you can be certain that the accommodation market is going […]