50 days ago by Patrick Landman

There are some major developments ahead in the hotel sector which will demand attention of hoteliers in order to stay in control of their marketing mix and distribution costs. Here some of the hot topics of next year: Google Hotel Finder Metasearch and rate parity OTA commission levels Direct sales ...

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57 days ago by Special Nodes

NB: This is a guest article by Tom White, an analyst on internet and interactive entertainment for equity research at Macquarie Capital. As we now know, Google is testing a version of its Comparison Ads format for online hotels. These ads are currently only visible to a subset of Google search users ...

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57 days ago by Special Nodes

NB: This is a guest article by Tom White, an analyst on internet and interactive entertainment for equity research at Macquarie Capital. As we now know, Google is testing a version of its Comparison Ads format for online hotels. These ads are currently only visible to a subset of Google search users ...

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58 days ago by Kevin May

More developments at Google likely to tweak the noses of the hotel industry and online travel agencies as it puts tools for Hotel Finder at the top of search results. A search for a hotel in some country markets now sees a new box appear at the top of the page titled “Comparison Ads”, featuring dire ...

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61 days ago by Alex Bainbridge

There are a number of pieces missing from the Google travel jigsaw. So far its focus has been on data-driven services – Maps, Flight Search, Hotel Finder, Places and the ubiquitous click-based advertising. These services have all been good, but they are much like getting travel advice from a white-s ...

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67 days ago by Special Nodes

NB: This is a guest article by Pedro Colaco, president and CEO of GuestCentric. Hotel distribution changes every ten years. In the 1980s it was the GDS, in the 1990s the emergence of tour operators like TUI and Thomas Cook, and in the 2000s the adoption of the web and online travel agents. At the be ...

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67 days ago by Special Nodes

NB: This is a guest article by Pedro Colaco, president and CEO of GuestCentric. Hotel distribution changes every ten years. In the 1980s it was the GDS, in the 1990s the emergence of tour operators like TUI and Thomas Cook, and in the 2000s the adoption of the web and online travel agents. At the be ...

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68 days ago by Jon Ritterbush

This is not a new announcement, but might be of interest to others given our problems with Research Pro: "In an effort to improve accessibility and usability for customers requesting various ports of entry into EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Innovate Interfaces, Inc. (I ...

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73 days ago by Dennis Schaal

Picture this: You sign into a travel metasearch site, where it may know your zip code, gender, e-mail address and preferred alliances, and after conducting a flight query, an airline may return offers for free Wi-Fi, reduced rates for premium seats and bag fees, or perhaps an upgrade, all personaliz ...

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73 days ago by Dennis Schaal

Picture this: You sign into a travel metasearch site, where it may know your zip code, gender, e-mail address and preferred alliances, and after conducting a flight query, an airline may return offers for free Wi-Fi, reduced rates for premium seats and bag fees, or perhaps an upgrade, all personaliz ...

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