Today DealAngel, a hotel search engine and aggregator, revealed that it will now be giving buy/wait advice to travelers based on market pricing trends for hotels.
DealAngel ventures into B2B with its hotel rate API — UPDATED
February 18, 2013 By 4 Comments
DealAngel has released a private beta of its API of its hotel-deal-search technology to travel businesses so that they can find and promote their offers via their own sites.
Google updates Hotel Finder with date, neighborhood, brand, and travel time search
February 7, 2013 By 5 Comments
Google has updated its Hotel Finder tool to invite users to narrow their searches by neighborhood and time period, plus its first unique innovation in metasearch: “time-based search.”
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OTAs outshine metasearch sites in sending traffic to air and hotel suppliers, says study
December 13, 2012 By 1 Comment
In the past year, traffic to metasearch sites spiked 13%, yet metasearch sites are managing only to persuade 2% of users to click through to the sites of travel suppliers, according to new research from PhoCusWright.
Room Key pop-under ads and hidden metasearch strategy catapult unique visitor numbers
March 16, 2012 By 17 Comments
There is a lot of skepticism in some parts of the travel industry about the long-term prospects of Room Key, but its traffic numbers were off the charts a month after its beta launch because of what could be a ground-breaking pop-under advertising strategy.
Ctrip and eLong competing head to head in HotelsCombined
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Almost a year after partnering with eLong, HotelsCombined expanded its reach in China and other parts of Asia by integrating hotel rates from Ctrip, as well.
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Room 77 launches metasearch and emailing room requests to hotels
November 10, 2011 By 3 Comments
If you book a hotel on a revamped Room 77, the company now will email requests for specific rooms to the hotel based on your preferences.
Analytics and restoring a hotel-search filter at HotelsCombined
November 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
HotelsCombined removed a hotel-search filter from its search results pages in early August, but then brought it back a few weeks later.
Trivago gets funding and looks to US online travel market with TV advertising
April 20, 2011 By 4 Comments
Trivago, the pan-European hotel metasearch company, got a funding infusion and began testing the waters in the U.S. with a 30-second TV advertisement.
In TRX deal, hotelicopter targets business travel market with Ratrix reporting tool
December 8, 2010 By 3 Comments
TRX signed a deal with hotel metasearch engine hotelicopter to integrate hotel rates and availability from online travel agency and hotel websites into the TRX corporate booking tool, RESX.
