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Lifestyle Hotels & Other Booking Filters

2012-07-24 by Phil Butler

Hotel Augarten

Are you looking for something or someone to filter your digital world? Argo Travel News takes a look at another travel accommodation filtering channel, Lifestyle Hotels, with mentions of a few others. If ever there were a need for good suggestion engines, the travel space is in dire need. How do you decide where to go, where to stay, what to do? Let’s look at regional players in travel booking.

Tags: ads, billboard effect, booking, destination filters, editing, France travel, hotel filter, human filtering, human filters, Italy hotels, Italy travel, Lago di Garda, Lefay Resort & SPA, marketing, OTA's, PR, resorts, startups, Stay.com, Thomas Holzleithner, Toscolano River, Vinivi, Waggener Edstrom, WHIP Convert, WIHP, WIHP Hotels

OTAs and the Offer Hotels Can’t Refuse

2011-11-21 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Mobster

An article by Hotel News Now Editorial Director Jeff Higley last Thursday may just be the bugle call for a coming battle between OTAs and their benefactors, hoteliers. Higley’s report from the 23rd Deloitte European Hotel Investment Conference shined a bright light on growing friction between third party distribution agents, and the service providers they are supposed to help.

Tags: billboard effect, booking commissions, commissions, Deloitte, Deloitte European Hotel Investment Conference, Expedia, high commissions, Hotel News Now, IHG, Jeff Higley, OTA commissions, paying commissions, Richard Solomons

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