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Online Travel Sucking Wind with Consumers! Huh?

2013-02-27 by Phil Butler

OTAs suck

A USA Today story from yesterday pretty much tells on an online travel industry that has failed on nearly every front to deliver. Let’s face it, just because you can book a plane or hotel on Expedia, this does not equal the innovation and awe so many have spoken of these last three years. Tnooz to this beleaguered writer, online travel should be farther along by now in delivering on its promise.

Tags: Expedia, GHX, Hipmunk, online travel, OTA's, Room Key, Tnooz, treovi

WIHP’s DirectPack & Trivago – Direct Bookings Imminent?

2012-10-02 by Phil Butler

trivago

World Independent Hotels Promotion (WIHP) has just announced a sweet partnership with leading meta comparison site Trivago, one which could end up being a sort of strategic masterpiece. Testing their so called DirectPack ad platform with Trivago, WIHP’s test hotels achieved a 10x ROI with no sweat, according to WIHP’s Marketing experts. The implications of this news may not be readily obvious, we suggest you read on.

Tags: booking, booking engine, DirectPack, Global Hotel Exchange, hotel marketing, marketing, marketing tools, OTA's, ROI, Room Key, treovi, TripAdvisor, Trivago

Big OTAs and Big Hotels in Price Fixing Lawsuit

2012-08-22 by Phil Butler

Class action versus OTAs

A federal lawsuit naming the likes of Expedia, Orbitz, Booking.com, Travelocity, Trump International Hotels Management, Intercontinental, Kimpton, Sabre Holdings, Priceline, Marriott, Starwood, and Hilton alleges the companies conspired to fix hotel room prices. According to the news from Reuters, the suit claims the travel giants did so in an effort to fend off competition from smaller online retailers.

Tags: Booking.com, buuteeq, Expedia, FairSearch, Global Hotel Exhange, Google, Google Travel, Hilton, hotels, InterContinental, ITA, Kimpton, Marriott, online travel, Orbitz, OTA's, price fixing, Priceline, rate parity, room prices, Sabre holdings, Starwood, Travelocity, treovi, Trump International Hotels Management

Treovi Unveils “Commission-Free” Hotel Booking Platform

2012-07-18 by Mike Wheatley

Booking a hotel online is easy enough for the average ‘internet-savvy’ consumer these days, but finding a room that’s cheap? That’s an altogether different kettle of fish…

Tags: booking a hotel, hotel booking, hotel registrations, hotel reservations, online travel agencies, Pamela Whitby, reservation system, Room Key, treovi

Treovi To Revolutionize the Online Hotel Industry

2012-06-13 by Miruna Corneanu

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




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