Busting five myths about mobile applications for hotels

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Over the last few months I have been very disappointed by hearing several hotel Internet marketing companies dismissing mobile applications as part of a hotel’s mobile marketing strategy.

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Hotels: What are some of you guys smoking?

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I just have to get this of my chest, and share my latest experiences with you.

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Room 77 comes out fighting as Concur reveals investment, pledges to out-Kayak Kayak

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The hotel sector is getting rather interesting (and feisty) in 2012, as some predicted, with the likes of Google wading in deeper and the GDSs ramping up their efforts.

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Analytics and restoring a hotel-search filter at HotelsCombined

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HotelsCombined removed a hotel-search filter from its search results pages in early August, but then brought it back a few weeks later.

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Hipmunk takes pain out of meetings and business travel schedule conflicts

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Do you want to take into account the schedule and location of your business meetings when searching for flights and hotels? Hipmunk just provided a solution.

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Google extends Hotel Finder tool beyond US destinations

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Google’s experiment with its Hotel Finder tool for US destinations must be paying off as the search giant has quietly opened it up to include European cities.

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Shape-shifting in hotel search as Hipmunk tangles with Google

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Hipmunks are nothing if not agile — witness Hipmunk’s use of rectangles to refine your hotel search on a Google Map.

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Nokia extends Ovi location-aware hotel search into US and UK via Expedia

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Expedia is to power a new hotel search system on all Nokia GPS handsets in the US and UK using the mobile manufacturer’s Ovi maps system.

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