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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

Countdown to Budapest: Hospitality E-Commerce & Revenue Management Conference

2013-05-24 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Pit stop bar in the Continental Hotel lobby

Coming up next week in Budapest, dotcomhotel’s Hospitality E-Commerce & Revenue Management Conference kicks off May 30th at the Continental Hotel Budapest.

Tags: Affilired, Agniezska Sapa, Ana Carmona, Brendan May, Budapest events, Christophe Tassi, Daniele Di Bella, dotcomhotel, Kristof Roemer, luesun Hotels& Resorts, Martin Soler, Paul Ponçon, Smart HERO, Ulruch Pillau, WIHP Hotels

#Travel Tuesday Tips on Travel Tech: Don’t Cry for Expedia

2013-04-30 by Phil Butler

Flintstones app

Reading news in travel technology this morning any interested party might be a bit confused over all the smoke signals going out from online players. The New York Times suggests simply “Fewer, Bigger Travel Sites”, Expedia stocks are down on the one hand, and their mobile app is revamped a superhuman helper on the other. Meanwhile a startup called Bookt LLC takes a shot at Airbnb.com and vacations. I guess the good news is, travel technology is really still alive and doing well.

Tags: Bookt, Expedia, Expedia profits, Google Glass, mobile travel, online travel, OTA's, tech, travel apps, travel tech, vacations, WIHP Hotels

Orient-Express Launches Association by Excellence Program

2013-01-10 by Phil Butler

In hospitality news from leading luxury player Orient-Express Hotels, a new associate hotels programme by them promises independently owned and managed hotels new momentum.

Tags: booking affiliates, hotel, hotel ads, hotel affiliates, hotelier affiliations, hotels marketing, Mr & Mrs Smith, O'Rourke, partnerships, WIHP Hotels

Flip.to Hopes to Create “Buzz” Machine for Hotels

2012-10-31 by Phil Butler

Cushy Hotel ROI for Seven

Not many companies have so effectively tackled the language barrier online, not even in travel. News from Flip.to last week tells of not only translating for guests, but interesting benefits for hoteliers too, namely conversions. Flip.to may just have figured a refined way to pay guests and hoteliers.

Tags: brand tools, Elegancia Hotels, Hotel ROI, Hotelier tools, ROI, social marketing, social media, WIHP Hotels

Spain’s HTGroup to Open Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

2012-09-20 by Phil Butler

Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

With all the bad news flying about from European capitols it’s nice to see hotel groups expanding through all the economic strife. This is particularly true where the hardest hit countries are concerned. News that Spanish hoteliers, HTGroup is opening a new four star in Madrid, this is good news for a change of fortunes.

Tags: High Tech Hotels, hotels, Madrid hotels, Spain hotels, Spain tourism, WIHP Hotels

LeisureLink Named to Inc. Fastest Growing List

2012-09-06 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Marketspan

LeisureLink has joined Yelp as on of Inc.’s top 500|5000 fastest growing private companies, according to news from the company. An online travel tech company, LeisureLink points so called “big data” at the travel industry with innovations like Marketspan™ Guest Generation System. At a time when online market analysis and revenue management solutions could surely […]

Tags: Dave Berkus, distribution tools, hotel channels, hotel tools, HotelTravelCheck, management, market metrics, market tools, marketing channels, O'Rourke Hospitality, property management, room management, Waldorf Astoria, WIHP Hotels, Yelp

Digital Marketing System buuteeq Looking Up

2012-08-19 by Phil Butler

Web, mobile, social

News from budding marketing marvel buuteeq suggests their dital marketing system (DMS) for independent hotels is gaining momentum. Powering online reservartions online, on mobile, and via social media, the startup launched back in 2011 is now engaging hoteliers across 15 countries.

Tags: booking, booking engine, buuteeq, Convert, distribution, DMS, Grafetee, hotel marketing, marketing, mobile bookings, OTA, Robert Scoble, Stay.com, Teovi, WIHP Hotels

TravelAvenue Shows Some Scenic Dead Ends

2012-08-15 by Phil Butler

Travel Avenue Facebook image

TravelAvenue, a startup focused on image oriented share for travel, is a Pinterest-ish development travelers may want to watch. We gave the product the once over this morning, here’s what we discovered.

Tags: Bora Bora, Convert, object oriented, Pinterest, programming, startups, TLabs, travel apps, travel tools, TravelAvenue, user interface, web design, WIHP Hotels

Lifestyle Hotels & Other Booking Filters

2012-07-24 by Phil Butler

Hotel Augarten

Are you looking for something or someone to filter your digital world? Argo Travel News takes a look at another travel accommodation filtering channel, Lifestyle Hotels, with mentions of a few others. If ever there were a need for good suggestion engines, the travel space is in dire need. How do you decide where to go, where to stay, what to do? Let’s look at regional players in travel booking.

Tags: ads, billboard effect, booking, destination filters, editing, France travel, hotel filter, human filtering, human filters, Italy hotels, Italy travel, Lago di Garda, Lefay Resort & SPA, marketing, OTA's, PR, resorts, startups, Stay.com, Thomas Holzleithner, Toscolano River, Vinivi, Waggener Edstrom, WHIP Convert, WIHP, WIHP Hotels

Library Hotel Collection Moves With WIHP

2012-06-28 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Wine and cheese at Casablanca Times Square

Selected to reinvent all Library Hotel Collection’s websites, hotel marketing agency WHIP expands their already considerable brace of interdependent hotel clients with four extraordinary boutiques in New York, and more to come from Budapest to Toronto in the coming weeks. The hospitality sensation of ITB Berlin, WIHP Convert website design renders a result ending the way Every hotel website should look like, at least according to Robin Wauters at The Next Web.

Tags: booking portal, Convert, hospitality, Hospitality marketing, hotel booking, Hotel rooms, hotel tech, hotel websites, hotel websites platform, Independent hotels, Library Hotel Collection, marketing, New York accommodations, New York bookings, new york city, New York rooms, New York stays, online booking, OTA's, Robin Wauters, The Next Web, WHIP, WIHP Hotels, World hotels

Argo Exclusive: A Peek at Hotel Félicien

2012-04-07 by Phil Butler

Felicien logo

Planning a visit to Paris this year. Well, a new hotel from the people who envisioned Hotel Seven, Hotel Crayon, designer boutiques hoteliers Elegancia Hotels will unveil Félicien this coming November. This latest thematic fashion stay in Paris arises once again from the imagination of entrepreneur Philippe Vaurs, and the added creative genius of one Olivier Lapidus, one of the world’s great clothing designers. Argophilia Travel News offers a sneak peek at a fantastic Paris stay.

Tags: design hotels, Elegancia Hotels, fashion hotels, Felicien, Hotel Crayon, Hotel Félicien, Hotel Seven, hotels Paris, Lamborghini leather, Olivier Lapidus, Paris hotels, Paris stays, Paris tourism, Philippe Vaurs, WIHP Hotels

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