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Palmera Beach Hotel & Spa Tops €1M in Online Revenue via RevitUp

2023-02-22 by Argophilia Travel News

RevitUp Case Study

A case study from RevitUp and Palmera Beach Hotel & Spa proves data monitoring melded to a competitive online presence leads to bookings

Tags: Bookings, Crete hotels, Crete Island, Crete vacations, direct bookings, hotel bookings, hotel revenue, hotel revenue tools, OTAs, Palmera Beach Hotel & Spa, revenue tools, RevitUP, Themis Karnis, tour operators, travel tech

Trip.com Launches Plan to Reconnect Chinese Travelers with Destinations

2022-12-14 by Argophilia Travel News

Trip.com Group

Trip.com leading Chinese language platform Ctrip launched its 2023 Travel Revival A Plan to reunite destinations with Chinese travelers.

Tags: 2023 Travel Revival A Plan, Bo Sun, China travelers, Chinese tourists, destinations, OTAs, tourism, travel, travel agencies, travel in 2023, Trip.com, world destinations, world tourism

AI-Powered Pathfndr Announces a Slew of New Features

2022-10-15 by Phil Butler

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Pathfndr, billed as a No-code, Artificial Intelligence-powered Travel Operating System, announces a slew of innovations for travel advisors.

Tags: Big Data, Bookings, bookings engine, busses, cars, data, hotels, local expereinces, OTA, OTAs, Pathfndr, semantic search, transportation, travel agents, travel choices, travel search, travel startups, travel tech, travel technology, Varun Gupta

OTA Insight & Revitup.direct Offer “Power of Data for Hotels” June 7-9

2022-05-28 by Aleksandr Shatskih

ibis Styles Heraklion Central

Revitup.direct, in collaboration with OTA Insight, will be presenting “The Power of Data for Hotels” at three locations on Crete.

Tags: Bookings, Crete events, Crete Hoteliers, Crete hotels, hotel marketing, hotel profits, hotel revenue, hotels, OTA Insight, OTAs, RevitUp.direct

SiteMinder Snags Another $100M in Pre-IPO Funding

2021-09-19 by Argophilia Travel News

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Hotel commerce platform SiteMinder announced raising $100 million in a pre-IPO funding.

Tags: Blackrock, digital hotels, eCommerce, Ellerston Capital, hotel tech, hotels, OTAs, Pendal Group, SiteMinder

Trivago Collaborates with TUI to Offer New Activities Feature

2021-04-29 by Argophilia Travel News

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Travelers Will Have Access to more than 55,000 Experiences in over 100 Countries via a new Trivago feature powered by TUI.

Tags: accomodations, hotels, OTAs, travel, traveler choices, Trivago, TUI

Tripadvisor Now Lets Hotels Participate Directly in Membership Program

2021-03-13 by Argophilia Travel News

Tripadvisor Plus

Now hotels and B&Bs can expand their visibility and reach by participating directly in Tripadvisor Plus, a new membership program for travelers.

Tags: membership programs, OTAs, travel clubs, travel programs, travel tech, travel technology, TripAdvisor, Tripadvisor Plus, Tripadvisor®

eRevMax and Hotel Technology Provider RevSol Announce Partnership

2021-01-22 by Argophilia Travel News

RevSol

RevSol, a Kenya based hospitality technology solutions provider, has partnered with hotel distribution technology leader eRevMax.

Tags: Africa hospitlity, Africa hotels, Africa Travel, eRevMax, hospitality tech, hospitality technology, online distribution, OTAs, RateTiger, RevSol, travel tech

The Latest Google Evil Leveled on Battered Online Travel Businesses

2020-08-27 by Phil Butler

Sundar Pichai

Google has a knee on the necks of companies like GetYourGuide, Airbnb, and Travago, at a moment when regulators build an anti-trust case.

Tags: Anti-trust, EU fairness commission, EU Google, EU laws, European commission, German Start-ups Association, GetYourGuide, Google, Google evil, Johannes Reck, monopoly, online travel, OTAs, Trivago

OTA Insight Re-shapes Real-time Market Intelligence with Market Insight

2020-06-29 by Argophilia Travel News

OTA Insight logo

OTA Insight announces the launch of Market Insight, an industry-first predictive market intelligence solution.

Tags: hospitality, Hospitality marketing, hotel market, Market Insight, Market intelligence, online marketing, online travel, OTA Insight, OTAs

Argo Tests Search & Booking Platform Tangopapas.com

2020-06-24 by Phil Butler

tangopapas.com

Argo tests a new travel platform Tangopapas.com being marketed as a “best of” class search and booking platform.

Tags: car search, flight search, hotel search, meta-search, OTAs, search engine, tangopapas.com, travel search

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