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InteleTravel & Travel Insured Hook Travelers Up

2013-03-19 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Travel Insured International

InteleTravel, a leading booking tool for travel agents, has just announced having selected Travel Insured International as their Preferred Travel Protection Partner for this year. According to the news release, InteleTravel will now automatically provide the offer of travel insurance during their reservation process.

Tags: online booking, online insurance, tourist insurance, travel agents, Travel booking, Travel Insurance, trip insurance

Library Hotel Collection Moves With WIHP

2012-06-28 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Wine and cheese at Casablanca Times Square

Selected to reinvent all Library Hotel Collection’s websites, hotel marketing agency WHIP expands their already considerable brace of interdependent hotel clients with four extraordinary boutiques in New York, and more to come from Budapest to Toronto in the coming weeks. The hospitality sensation of ITB Berlin, WIHP Convert website design renders a result ending the way Every hotel website should look like, at least according to Robin Wauters at The Next Web.

Tags: booking portal, Convert, hospitality, Hospitality marketing, hotel booking, Hotel rooms, hotel tech, hotel websites, hotel websites platform, Independent hotels, Library Hotel Collection, marketing, New York accommodations, New York bookings, new york city, New York rooms, New York stays, online booking, OTA's, Robin Wauters, The Next Web, WHIP, WIHP Hotels, World hotels

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

Keynote Competitive Research Chooses hotels.com

2011-05-27 by Phil Butler

Hotels.com Facebook share

Hotels.com has been named the Best Overall Customer Experience in a study by Keynote Competitive Research. In an examination of nine of the top online travel websites in the US, Keynote selected Hotels in several categories where actual customer responses were used.

Tags: Europe travel, hotel booking, hotel travel, Hotels at Facebook, Hotels.com, Keynote Competitive Research, online booking, online travel, Scott Booker, travel awards, travel research, user experience

Best Western Recognized As Web-Mobile Leader

2011-05-27 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Best Western landing page

Best Western International has just been named a 2010 web performance Silver Award winner by Compuware Corporation. Compuware’s Best of the Web Awards revealed Best Western and several other leading companies as leading edge Internet players.

Tags: Best Western, Bruce Reading, Compuware, Gomez, Gomez benchmark, hotel, hotel bookings, hotel sites, hotels, hotels online, online booking, online hotels, Scott Gibson, website testing, websites, World hotels

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