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Why Travelers Have Resorted to “Search Escapism”

2021-02-03 by Phil Butler

Distopian travel

Since the start of the global pandemic, travelers have turned to something called “search escapism” in order to build a fantasy reality.

Tags: booking psychology, Booking.com, destination search, experience travel, fictional experiences, Fodors, hotel bookings, pandemic search, search, search trends, travel, travel experience, travel psychology, WOW factor

The Hospitality Industry’s COVID-19 Ultimatum: Evolve or Die

2020-04-21 by Phil Butler

Virtual wedding

Tourism and hospitality are facing deconstruct. Here’s an encapsulization of the coming battle for survival in a key global industry.

Tags: Adrian Bejan, Booking.com, Brian Solis, capitalism, consumerism, COVID-19, Digital Darwinism, Drew Hansen, Franziska Altenrath, global tourism, hospitality industry, Hospitality Net, Jan Hein Simons, Jonathan Day, MRP Hotels, OTA, OTA's, Revinate, socialism, technology, TUI, TUTAKA, Willy Legrand

Revinate Tries Half-Hearted Coronavirus Campaign

2020-04-20 by Phil Butler

Frankfurt

Revinate is the latest hospitality firm to plop down a limited coronavirus strategy information campaign, just when the industry needs help.

Tags: Ariela Kiradjian, booking, Booking.com, Boutique Lifestyle Leaders Association, Cara Federici, COVID-19, Hospitality Industry Club, Madison Melle Agency, Marc Heyneker, Rani Croshal, Revinate, travel, TUI

Booking.com Announces Free Cancellations Due to COVID-19

2020-03-04 by Phil Butler

Booking.com logo

Booking.com has issued a notice regarding the Coronavirus announcing free cancellations and refunds for travelers affected.

Tags: Booking.com, Bookings, Coronavirus 2019, COVID-19, COVID-19 cancellations, hotel bookings, traveler bookings

Prince Harry Launches Travalyst With Tourism’s Heavy Hitters

2019-09-04 by Phil Butler

Prince Harry

Prince Harry has launched a new project known as Travalyst alongside tourism’s heavy hitters in order to boost sustainable practices.

Tags: Booking.com, Ctrip, Ecotourism, environmental travel, Glenn Fogel, Meghan Markle, overtourism, Prince Harry, Skyscanner, sustainable business, sustainable hotels, sustainable tourism, sustainable travel, tourism initiative, Travalyst, TripAdvisor

Booking.com Goes Local With An Unforgettable Foodie Adventure

2018-06-11 by Argophilia Travel News

Foodie travel

More than six in ten travelers (61%) say they pick a destination for its great food or drink; Over half of global travelers (51%) are likely to seek out local street food markets; Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and Brazil are among the top places to discover local food across the globe.

Tags: Booking.com, Bookings, culinary travel, foodie, foodies, hotel bookings, travelers

Booking.com Launches Startup Accelerator

2017-02-06 by Phil Butler

Booking.com

Today Booking.com announced the launch of a new accelerator program, Bookingcom Booster, designed to jump start innovation. The new 3-week program gives startups the chance to pitch for grants of up to €500,000 euro.

Tags: Booking.com, Gillian Tans, startups, sustainable tourism, travel innovation, ycombinator

Airbnb Really Is the Big Bad Wolf

2017-02-01 by Phil Butler

Airbnb is the Big Bad Wolf

The hotel industry is in a nightmare of dire concerns over a beleaguered hospitality market. Airbnb and the impact the so-called “sharing economy” is on every hotelier’s mind, and understandably. The industry is for all intents and purposes, lost in a forest like Little Red Riding Hood trying to figure how much business the Big Bad Wolf […]

Tags: AirBnb, Big Bad Wolf, Booking.com, crete, hotel industry, hotels, marketing, OTA's, shared economy, sharing economy, travel tech

Booking.com Releases “Best of Booking’s Best”

2014-05-09 by Liliana Steffens

At Villa Meneghetti in Bale, Croatia - One of Booking's Best

Booking.com just revealed their “Best of Booking’s Best” – the accommodations according to some 20 million real, relevant and recent customer reviews. The list provides summer travelers with more insight into the best places to visit and stay in the world.

Tags: accommodations, Booking.com, hotel ratings, hotel reviews, World hotels

Q1 Profit and Loss: Weeding Out the OTAs

2014-05-09 by Phil Butler

In a 2014 economy seemingly stagnated OTAs and other travel businesses are feeling some pain. This is not the case for Priceline Group, which just showed a 1st quarter earnings jump of some 36% on international bookings. However, this company’s gain is evidently Orbitz’s and other digital travel business loss. Are we seeing a “weeding out” of good travel entities versus bad ones?

Tags: booking sites, Booking.com, Expedia, lastminute.com, Orbitz, OTA's, SABR, Sabre, travel sites, Travelocity

Big OTAs and Big Hotels in Price Fixing Lawsuit

2012-08-22 by Phil Butler

Class action versus OTAs

A federal lawsuit naming the likes of Expedia, Orbitz, Booking.com, Travelocity, Trump International Hotels Management, Intercontinental, Kimpton, Sabre Holdings, Priceline, Marriott, Starwood, and Hilton alleges the companies conspired to fix hotel room prices. According to the news from Reuters, the suit claims the travel giants did so in an effort to fend off competition from smaller online retailers.

Tags: Booking.com, buuteeq, Expedia, FairSearch, Global Hotel Exhange, Google, Google Travel, Hilton, hotels, InterContinental, ITA, Kimpton, Marriott, online travel, Orbitz, OTA's, price fixing, Priceline, rate parity, room prices, Sabre holdings, Starwood, Travelocity, treovi, Trump International Hotels Management

Hoteliers, Are You Using the Right Channels?

2011-10-26 by Phil Butler

From the Slaley Hall gallery of De Vere

For businesses busying themselves trying to catch the social wave, to engage customers via digital channels, the learning curve can be steep. All along the path to competitive edge in online marketing, the pitfalls of “not knowing” end up costing companies before the online lesson is learned. Nowhere is this more evident than in the hotel industry. Using the wrong communicative channels, or using them in the wrong way, can determine who does and does not survive.

Tags: best hotel, best practices, booking hotels, Booking.com, Calum Russell, channel management, De Vere Hotel Group, De Vere Hotels, digital channels, digital media, Global Hotel Exchange, hotel news, hotel outreach, Magnuson Hotels, Michael McCartan, p3, Rate Tiger, Starwood Hotels, TripAdvisor




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