
Hot Hotels, Spain-based startup aims to crack the fragmented same-day hotel booking space.

At the Travel Business Academy, a professional online course teaching entrepreneurs how to start a travel business, we have been researching and analyzing the in-destination mobile app travel business.

Blink Booking is a startup based around a mobile application for last-minute hotel bookings in Europe

The US OTA says that it offers geographic coverage of about 150 US markets on a typical evening, making it “the largest last-minute hotel deals service for mobile equipped travelers.

The last-minute hotel booking app expands to ten new destinations in the US and the UK, and more items in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion on 29 August.

Some interesting data provided by late-booking service Hotel Tonight, looking at the differences between users with Android or Apple mobile devices.

A ranking of the travel booking mobile apps used at least once by US iPhone users in June 2012 is led by Kayak, in a new infographic supplied by Onavo, a maker of apps for data compression and data-monitoring.

As Priceline, Hotel Tonight, Blink Booking et al battle for the PR with launches of same-day bookings for hotels, Kayak quietly introduced the same thing six weeks ago.

Same-day hotel booking for mobiles, HotelTonight, appears to be validating the model further by securing $23 million in Series C funding in an investment round led by US Venture Partners.

Listen to the likes of Hotel Tonight in the US and Blink Booking in Europe and they will tell you that you the same-day booking via mobile model is becoming a major force.

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