online travel

Want to get your hands on the profitability and success of a small hospitality business? Being a service provider in the hospitality industry is undoubtedly rewarding, but not without its many challenges. On the one hand, running a small…

February 25: Reserve yours; the affordable hotel booking brand is the latest entrant in the hospitality industry. Officially launched in 2021, BYO is a standardized budget hotel app aggregator. This online hotel and taxi booking platform…

Corporate Traveler has upgraded its online booking platform, CT.GO.The announcement:Corporate Traveller, Australia's leading travel management company for SMEs, has launched a new and improved version of its online booking platform. Called…

Flight Center Travel Group's Corporate Traveler has launched a new and improved version of its online booking platform. Called CT.GO, the new feature allows Corporate Traveler partner companies to implement the new online booking tool in…

Bookmundi then invests in carbon reduction projects around the world to offset the CO2 emissions of each trip. Some of these projects include planting 8 million trees in Colombia, investing in a conservation project in the Peruvian…

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Tuesday January 11, 2022, 6:10 p.m.Press release: STAAH Here is a list of the top hotel booking revenue generators around the world. Is your property connected to it?STAAH, one of the…

After too brief a respite from the lockdown restrictions, many hoteliers and travelers have once again been left in more uncertainty as the omicron wave spreads around the world.In the UK this was made!-->…

The deal expands the company's diverse portfolio of sports partners and provides a personalized booking engine to deliver exclusive hotel rates to US athletes, staff and judo fans. WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (PRWEB) January…

Thapanee said the agency is keen to support startups, especially Thai TravelTechs, by helping them maneuver them in the face of international competition. Locanation.com, a new hotel reservation platform backed by the Tourism…

RateGain Travel Technologies Limited, a provider of SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire myhotelshop, a company incorporated in Germany, which provides a platform to help hotels…

Travel + Leisure Club is a new subscription travel reservation and concierge service.Travel + Leisure Group / Travel + Leisure Co.From private jet clubs to theme park memberships, membership services are increasingly the way to go when it…

FILE - This file photo from October 20, 2009 shows casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File) LAS VEGAS — Clark County has joined a legal fight to try to collect!-->…

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The county with jurisdiction over the Las Vegas Strip has joined a legal fight to try to collect what lawyers maintain could be hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid hotel room taxes owed by over…

The post-pandemic will be the scene of a real boom in the global online travel market: according to Statista, in fact, by 2025, its value will almost double, from 432 to 833 billion dollars. A positive sign also for the European, which…

Stefano Musso, CEO, Primeur (Courtesy of Primeur) The post-pandemic period will be the scene of a real boom in the global online travel market: according to Statista, in fact, by 2025, it will almost double in…

Table of contents (quick navigation) Singapore-based online hotel booking site Agoda says the online travel agency maintains stable cash flow despite covid-19. Chief Executive Officer John Brown said Agoda can withstand months or…

Hotel chain operator Huazhu Hotels Group (NASDAQ: HTHT) has launched a flagship store on Pinduoduo (NASDAQ: PDD), making its 2,000 hotels accessible to the e-commerce platform's 568.8 million monthly active users social, confirmed Pinduoudo…

Splitty, a Tel Aviv-based startup, told hotels it knows how to increase their online booking game while increasing guest satisfaction. Over the past year and a half, Splitty has woven together different types of reservations to…

To print this article, simply register or connect to Mondaq.com. As we deepen the age of the Internet, the dependence of the average individual on Internet service providers is also increasing day by day. In a bidding…

Skift grip It's hard to say in what form Kayak would enter the hospitality industry, if at all. If there was ever a Kayak brand hotel, we can say that Marriott and Accor have nothing to fear.…

Image: Nikada/Istock.com via AFP Relaxnews New research from the UK shows that travelers could get better deals if they go directly to the hotel rather than booking through an online travel agency like Booking.com or Expedia.com. That's…

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Online hotel reservation sites do not offer the bargain prices claimed in their glossy TV advertisements.According to a study by Which?Websites like Booking.com and Expedia claim to research all available deals from a range of hotel options…

Earlier this year Festive Road surveyed and interviewed over a hundred business travel buyers and conducted interviews across the online booking tool community about the OBT experience and the challenges facing booking providers. Three…

Expedia and other online travel agencies (OTAs) boast of saving travelers money on flights, hotels and rental cars in cities around the world. But, even when they promise savings, they are…

Nearly one in four consumers are deceived by online reservation scams and dishonest marketing practices by fraudulent and deceptive travel websites, according to a new study from the American…

Despite all the talk of innovation in business travel, there is still a gap in the retail technology used by the industry.That's the message from Paul Tilstone, managing partner at Festive Road,!-->…

Bidroom is one of the latest Online Travel Agencies (OTA) to enter the international market, offering a twist on the traditional OTA formula. Bidroom's pitch centers on eliminating commission fees for hoteliers, allowing travelers to…

The online travel aggregator space has seen strong growth over the past two years, as evidenced by growth in room inventory coupled with rapid growth in total industry bookings. A host of players, including OYO Rooms, Vista Rooms, Zo…

Delhi-based online travel portal EaseMyTrip, which has claimed to book nearly 8-9 lakh of air passengers per month, is looking to step up its hotel and travel package booking business. According to Nishant Pitti, co-founder and CEO of…

Selling principles introduced for UK online booking sites("Hotel Booking Sites Get Consumer-law Compliance Principles from CMA," MLex, March 1, 2019) (subscription required)By 1 September 2019, hotel booking sites operating in the…

PHUKET: Six major online booking operators - Expedia, Booking.com, Agoda, Hotels.com, ebookers and trivago - have agreed to make "voluntary" changes to their online sales tactics following an investigation conducted by the UK's Competition…

Thousands of families have been left out in the run-up to Christmas after a dodgy hotel booking website dropped their reservations.HotelQuickly, a booking platform listed as an option on TripAdvisor with 640,000 Facebook followers, sent…

Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) are all over the TV and radio announcing that they are the only ones that can save travelers a lot of money on flights, hotels and cars from rental in…

Attribute-based selling is a concept that has generated buzz in hospitality circles in recent years, and now Amadeus is implementing this strategy as part of its new guest reservation system adopted by!-->…

Skift grip Do hotels really need to be branded if online travel agencies are the most effective at selling rooms? Joan Vila of Hotelbeds thinks hotel chains could be forced to cut back on some brands that aren't succeeding in the…

Dear Heloise: My husband books our hotel rooms using an online travel site. He loves the perks, but here's the problem we ran into: He booked a two-night stay in Austin, Texas. When checking out we didn't have to pay as we had…

After a long drive from Buffalo to Gananoque, Ont., Adam Cole's hotel told him bad news: his reservation was "gone." "I got confirmation from my travel agent," says Cole, principal of a music school in Atlanta, "but there was no room."…

After a long drive from Buffalo to Gananoque, Ont., Adam Cole's hotel told him bad news: his reservation was "gone." “I got a confirmation from…

A host of online booking sites make finding the right accommodation convenient and affordable, but beware of sharks in the water.Just because a site appears at the top of search results does not mean it is legitimate. Under the guise of…

Carefully review this getaway offer before you book. If a travel sale sounds too good to be true, chances are it is.Online hotel reservation scams are on the rise, warns the American Hotel & Lodging Association.Last year, the industry…

Two of the world's largest hotel companies are cracking down on travelers prone to last-minute cancellations.Hilton Hotels & Resorts and Marriott International will penalize those who cancel reservations within 48 hours of the intended…

Gross hotel bookings, which were $ 7.2 billion in 2016, are expected to reach $ 10.9 billion by 2020, according to the report, while the percentage of bookings made online will rise to 28. % against 19% currently.…

In April, the European Commission and 10 EU national competition authorities (NCAs) published the results of a coordinated monitoring exercise carried out in the online hotel booking sectors in 2016. The participating authorities sent…

The European Commission and 10 European national competition authorities (NCAs) recently published a report on the effects of most-favoured-nation (MFN) clauses in agreements between hotels and online platforms. The report is the result…

KARACHI: The advent of smartphones and high-speed internet has changed the way people shop. Those who do business online say consumers now have more choice, more convenience, and can compare prices from different vendors to make an…

Hotels and online travel booking companies tend to have a marriage of convenience, one that savvy travelers can exploit.When hotels struggle to fill rooms, they reluctantly pay Expedia and other online travel agencies 15-30% commissions to…

In March, Alysa Turner, a Washington publicist, booked a hotel room as part of Southwest Airlines' rewards program. She paid $ 400 for an overnight stay at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, but her plans changed after the reservation…

Skift grip On direct hotel booking rates, one of the big chains is already in talks with traditional travel agencies to divest them. Additionally, Choice Hotels, for its part, reports that better deals from online travel agencies…

The fight for a bigger share of the rapidly growing online hotel booking space is set to gain momentum. Two leading domestic online travel portals – MakeMyTrip and Ibibo –…

For the past six months, Erin Gifford, a Washington-based marketing manager, has been traveling on business at least once a month, mostly to Boston.But she has yet to see a single award from a hotel chain."I'm not a fan of loyalty…

Online travel company MakeMyTrip has set a goal of doubling its market share in the online hotel booking space to 50% over the next two years. The Nasdaq-listed company, which recently raised a $180 million investment from…

Whether you see TV commercials featuring Captain Obvious or Trivago Guy, it seems the market for third-party online hotel reservations is exploding. Meanwhile, HotelTonight, a mobile app, is speaking out in an effort to raise awareness of…

google Inc. GOOG 7.37% is set to play a bigger role in booking hotel rooms, at the risk of offending some of its most…

Indian Travel Booking Site, MakeMyTrip, acquired EasyToBook, an Amsterdam-based hotel booking portal, for approximately $5 million. With this acquisition, MakeMyTrip hopes to increase its share of revenue generated from online hotel…

Further consolidation in the Russian online travel sector. Following last month's announcement that Russian travel startup OneTwoTrip had acquired analytics-based hotel price comparison site DealAngel, today the Oktogo.ru announces…

If you need to cancel a hotel reservation and risk losing money, two Israeli startups will help you find a buyer more than happy to take you out of the reservation. Both Tenant and to cancel was born out of the same situation: out…