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Treovi To Revolutionize the Online Hotel Industry

2012-06-13 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Treovi Hotel bookings

Revolutionizing the online hotel industry, Treovi reservation service recently announced their main objective of excluding all existing online commissions and founding an equitable collaboration between hotels and their customers. Now this is news.

Tags: booking, Expedia, free booking, free reservation service, GHX, Global Hotel Exchange, guest booking, guests, hotel booking, hotel industry, hotels, online hotels, online travel booking, OTA's, Roomkey, Tnooz, travel sites, treovi

US Mobile Travel Bookings to Top $8 Billion

2012-02-27 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Philip Wolf founder and Chairman of PhoCusWright

Everyone in the business of travel distribution knows mobile is the most influential sector of the booking segment. A new report from the world’s leading travel authority, PhoCusWright, tells of mobile’s value upcoming. According to the research company bookings via mobile will exceed $8 billion in 2013 in the US alone.

Tags: booking, booking platforms, flight booking, hotel hooking, mobile bookings, mobile travel, online booking, PhoCusWright, smartphones

IAVRA: A Slick Way to Skin Villa Travel

2011-10-14 by Phil Butler

IAVRA branded villa pages

This is going to be a rave review about a new platform from the International Association of Villa Rental Agents (IAVRA), just to get you prepared. This new subscriber based database and tool set is a near perfect B2B conduit between travel agents etc. and Villa rental agents across the globe. The service not only makes searching, selecting, and renting villas efficient, but a bit of an aesthetically charged user experience on both ends of the exchange.

Tags: booking, booking innovations, hakia, no commission, Powerset, ReadWriteWeb, search engines, subscriber services, travel search, villa, villa rentals

Travelport and Poland’s Blue Sky Team Up

2011-05-18 by Phil Butler

Malbork Castle

In news from Poland’s Blue Sky Travel, the company and Travelport have just penned a deal for supporting Blue Sky’s offerings with Travelport’s global flight inventory.

Tags: Blue Sky Travel, booking, Eastern Europe travel, Euro 2012, Galileo, Jerzy Ruszkowski, online travel, Poland bookings, Poland hotels, Poland travel, Poland travel plans, travel news, travel plans, Travelport, Worldspan

GetThere.com Adds HTML5 Mobile Shop and Book Features

2011-04-13 by Aleksandr Shatskih

GetThere Mobile

GetThere announced yesterday that it has added some new features to its GetThere Mobile service.  The new web interface is built using HTML5, giving mobile users an app-like experience without actually having to download an app. With GetThere Mobile, mobile travel users can do the following: access flight information, including departure and arrival times call […]

Tags: booking, flight, GetThere, GetThere Mobil, hotels, HTML5, mobile app, reservations, smartphones, travel agency, web app

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