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Stay WordPress Theme for Hotels Helps You Attract more Guests

Mihaela Lica Butler

Free to download and use, with some excellent features, Stay wordpress theme is appealing for many independent hotels. But there’s a lot of room for improvement, especially when it comes to the reservations widget.

#Travel Tuesday Tips on Travel Tech: Don’t Cry for Expedia

Phil Butler

Reading news in travel technology this morning any interested party might be a bit confused over all the smoke signals going out from online players. The New York Times suggests simply “Fewer, Bigger Travel Sites”, Expedia stocks are down on the one hand, and their mobile app is revamped a superhuman helper on the other. Meanwhile a startup called Bookt LLC takes a shot at Airbnb.com and vacations. I guess the good news is, travel technology is really still alive and doing well.

Digital Innovation Asia Debuts Speak-Out Asia

Aleksandr Shatskih

Coming June 12th, the Digital Innovation Asia (DIA) inaugural event Speak-Out Asia, is scheduled to open at the Lebua Hotel at State Tower. According to the news Thai TV host and blogger Daniel Fraser is slated to MC the event.

RedEye and Target Marketing Group Tag Team E-Mail Marketing

Aleksandr Shatskih

In travel marketing news, RedEye and the Target Marketing Group have teamed up to produce a complementary online webinar; “Develop Your Customer Relationship and Increase Your Email Revenue – Lifecycle Marketing Volume 3”, slated to go live Tuesday, April 9 at 2 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT.

Accor Hotels Creates Their Own Travel Service

Aleksandr Shatskih

Designed to help customers of Accor Hotels to discover their next destinations, “Inspiration” presents online visitors to Accorhotels.com with unique destinations via internal hotel search. Guests into culture, wellness, exploration, a range of intentions, can get some relevance and quickness out of Inspiration, let’s take a quick look.

Scorecard: Winners in the UK Online Hotel Game

Phil Butler

According to a report (PDF) from greenlight recently TripAdvisor, Booking.com, and Laterooms now dominate the three most crucial search and social sectors of online visibility in the UK. Greenlight’s analysis of the top 15 brands across the online billboard showed not only each’s relative position to competitors, but just how seriously businesses engage via PPC, SEO, and social media means.

Britons On Exodus from Cold – Toward Spring

Phil Butler

We’ve all heard the news from the UK, mountains of snow and unseasonable weather of record breaking proportions. Fortunately for TUI Thomson there is an up side to bad weather – people on an exodus to better weather. A report from Thomson and First Choice the other day speaks of 30 something thousand headed out of bad weather and into good this Easter weekend.

Expedia Upgrades its Mobile App with New Features

Aleksandr Shatskih

Expedia has recently upgraded its mobile app with a set of mobile itineraries capabilities, that give the traveler up-to-date information at every stage of the journey.

Stay.com Partners with Over 100 Experts

Aleksandr Shatskih

The Norway-based company founded in 2009, Stay.com announced that it has partnered with more than 100 experts in various fields and includes on the website best places for any tastes and needs to visit in each city featured. Local professionals – chefs, artists, fashion designers, bartenders and baristas – picked out their favorite places in their fields in the city they live in. Stay.com now has an even wider collection of places to see, eat in, accommodate, etc. to choose from and create own travel guides.

Trustedhousesitters.com – Well Deserving of Your Attention

Phil Butler

If you ever dreamed of visiting far off places, and staying in a home away from home, Trustedhousesitters is just the ticket. Likewise, if you need someone you can trust to take care of your house while you are away, and maybe even your pets, then this service makes all the sense in the world.