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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

Trivago Data Shows Brits Ready to Gtf Outta Britain for Vacations

2021-02-09 by Argophilia Travel News

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A recent survey conducted by leading travel platform Trivago shows that 40% of Britons will do anything for a vacation.

Tags: Britain flights, British tourists, Greece tourists, pandemic effects, target markets, travel market, Travel to Greece, Trivago, vacation woes

The Latest Google Evil Leveled on Battered Online Travel Businesses

2020-08-27 by Phil Butler

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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

Trivago Awards 2019 Reveals Top 30 Greece Hotels

2019-04-01 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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Trivago, a leading global hotel metasearch, announced the winners of its annual Trivago Awards to recognize and reward this year’s top-rated and top-performing properties on the search platform. These awards are the highest endorsement Trivago gives to hotels, in recognition of their achievements in customer service and metasearch marketing throughout the year. Johannes Thomas, Trivago […]

Tags: Greek hotels, metasearch, OTA's, Trivago, Trivago hotels

Skinning the Frugal Travel Cat in Greece

2017-07-12 by Phil Butler

Fortezza and lighthouse Chania - CC 2.0 Thomas Münter

This morning I was reading a report on Ekathimerini about relative hotel stay value in Greece, when I recalled a personal “economic parallax” we ran into last year. While generalizations and statistics can help travelers to narrow their holiday choices, it pays to dig deeper than the media “suggestion box” if you want real deals. Here’s a look at the Ekathimerini comparative, in contrast with what a simple Airbnb hunt can provide.

Tags: AirBnb, Chania, crete, Pergamos House, Piramis Tavern, Platanias, Stalos Beach, Trivago

Athens Top Economy Destination in Europe

2014-04-09 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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In a recent Trivago survey, Athens reached the pinnacle of this year’s preferred Easter destinations for foreigners. The Trivago report also revealed the Greek capital as the cheapest European capital city to visit.

Tags: Athens hotels, Greece, Greece travel, Greek Reporter, Posidonia 2014, Trivago, Visit Greece, World Travel Awards

Expedia Finalizes Acquisition of Majority Interest in trivago

2013-03-14 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Expedia, a full service online travel agency with localized sites in 30 countries, has announced the completion of its acquisition of 61.6% of trivago GmbH, a hotel metasearch company. Following this acquisition, trivago will continue to operate independently from its headquarters in Dusseldorf, Germany.For this majority package in trivago Expedia paid approximately €434 million in […]

Tags: Expedia, expedia trivago acquisition, Trivago

WIHP’s DirectPack & Trivago – Direct Bookings Imminent?

2012-10-02 by Phil Butler

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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

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