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ZentrumHub Announces Strategic Partnership With WIHP Hotel Marketing

2022-05-31 by Argophilia Travel News

 ZentrumHub, a leading Hotel aggregator API specialist, and WIHP, the Hotel marketing specialists, today announced a strategic partnership that will enable ZentrumHub’ customers to get easy access to metasearch channels and engines like Google Hotel Ads, TripAdvisor, Trivago, Bing Hotel Ads, etc. With WIHP’s Meta I/O solution, ZentrumHub customers will now be able to better monitor […]

Tags: hotel marketing, Hotel rooms, hotel tech, marketing, metasearch, search, WIHP, WIHP Hotels, ZentrumHub

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

On an Island of Hospitality Data: Using Pineapple Search

2015-11-10 by Phil Butler

The landing of Pineapplesearch.com

Over the last dozen years I’ve tested just about every search technology that exists. From back in the so-called “search wars”, to new forms of AI and semantic intelligence, the ultimate goal of any search device is relevance for the user. Today I tested a little hospitality search engine called Pineapple Search.

Tags: B2B search, B2B tech, Big Data, database, hotel search, hotel tools, hsyndicate, search, search engine, Tnooz, travel tech

Meta Booking Hybrid Direct Rooms Adds 10 More Languages

2014-05-10 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Direct Rooms, a leading hybrid meta search entity for hotels, has just announced adding 10 additional languages to their service. According to the company they’re the first ever meta-search engine to offer rooms in Croatian.

Tags: booking search, Direct Rooms, Hotel rooms, hotel search, meta search, OTA's, search

British Airways Tags Forward3D for Global Paid Search

2014-04-22 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Forward3D landing page

British Airways has selected Forward3D as their paid search partner after the latter won a marketing pitch.

Tags: airlines, British Airways, Forward3D, paid search, ppc, search

The Desti (ny) of Semantic Travel Search

2013-01-12 by Phil Butler

Desti, are we "overthinking" solutions?

I am the world’s biggest fan of very advanced search technology. My partner and I, our whole team, we are also travel fanatics. The world around us is so amazing, words seldom suffice actually. A big question came to my mind today as I read Venturebeat about a startup called Desti. “Do I really want or need somebody or something to do my traveling for me?” That’s my question.

Tags: AI, Evature, Expedia search, hopper, Internet searches, search, search tools, semantic search, startups, travel search, travel tools

Good: Ness Takes on Restaurant Suggestion

2011-08-26 by Phil Butler

Ness takes lots of data and suggest best choices

TripAdvisor brought you reviews to help you make decisions about travel, Nileguide added depth of information, Stay.com added custom guides, now Ness is adding the personal touch. It seems the search for highly relevant search is not over yet, at least not in travel. Ness Search – Job One: Restaurants Ness Computing seems to have made good […]

Tags: apps, Corey Reese, guides, hotel reviews, iPhone, Ness, Ness Computing, Nileguide, restaurant reviews, restaurants, search, social apps, social graph, Stay.com, TA reviews, travel apps, travel technology, TripAdvisor

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