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Carrier Wins Best Website: Here’s Why

2014-04-10 by Phil Butler

Carrier

Just announced at the Travel Marketing Awards 2014, tailor made luxury travel provider Carrier wins “Best Website” at the Grosvenor House gala held March 20. With engagement an every increasing part of the guest experience equation, it’s clear this company “gets it” for converting and keeping customers.

Tags: carrier, Elounda Gulf Villas and Suites, luxury travel, travel experience, travel websites, web design, website design

Survey: Online Travel Bookings Habits in Russia

2012-05-28 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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Russia’s leading hotel booking website, Oktogo.ru with Synovate Comcon, have made a study about Russians’ travel habits, focusing on Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Tags: Oktogo.ru, Russia travel, Russia travel bookings, Russian market research, Russian travel websites, Synovate Comcon, travel bookings, travel survey, travel websites

WIHP Convert Reveals Value to Guests & Hoteliers

2012-03-11 by Phil Butler

WIHP Convert - a cut above

Have you ever Google’d before going on a trip, only to run across one crappy website after another in search of a hotel? Face it, despite all the technology advances, the mobile breakthroughs enabling us like never before, hotel websites still suck. WIHP aims to change all that.

Tags: Ares Hotel, Convert, hospitality, Hotel Ares, hotel bookings, hotel marketing, hotel news, hotel websites, marketing, Martin Soler, rooms, site builder, travel websites, web design, WIHP

Who’s Rocking Travel Now? Slovenia’s Tourist Board

2011-07-14 by Phil Butler

You rock as a tourism ministry when...

Travel blurbs from Argo News, Slovenia’s Travel Board rocks while most other European travel ministers must be asleep at the wheel of their tourism engagements. If a country of 2 million, about the size of New Hampshire can rock this hard online… It looks like some emulation is in order here in Europe.

Tags: Argo rocks, Easter Europe travel, Europe tourism, Feel Slovenia, Janez Bogataj, Maja Pak, online engagement, Russian Federation, Russian tourism, slovenia, Slovenia travel, travel websites

Oyster Travel Reviews’ Latest Pearl – Oyster Shots

2011-06-30 by Phil Butler

Oyster image search

Oyster.com, one of the most innovative travel review entities in the world, announces what they term “Oyster Shots” – a first ever photo powered hotel search engine.

Tags: high def photos, hotel photos, hotel reviews, Oyster reviews, Oyster Shots, travel deals, travel photos, travel reviews, travel search, travel search engine, travel tools, travel websites

New Travel Portal Is Indeed ideeli

2011-06-22 by Phil Butler

Sebourn Legend via ideeli

ideeli, Inc. announces an all new flash sale shopping site with a very cool travel component. Powered by Voyage Prive, the first and largest global private flash sale travel group, ideeli travel goes a long way toward connecting travelers with curated travel offers and booking simplicity. With a maze of online travel sites springing up everywhere, maybe it’s time for an old fashioned travel store?

Tags: 7 Night Cruise, Civitavecchia, designer travel, ideeli travel, luxury shopping, luxury yacht cruise, Med cruises, Monte Carlo, online travel, Paul Hurley, Seabourn Legend, Travel Channel, travel deals, travel portal, travel websites, Voyage Prive

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