Luxury vacation rental and trip management service Inspirato has secured a further $11 million round of funding.
TLabs Showcase – Secret Escapes
February 7, 2011 By 10 Comments
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-based hotel flash sale site Secret Escapes.
TLabs Showcase – Inspirato
February 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based luxury vacation rental and trip management service Inspirato.
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Why 2011 will see a huge change in hotel marketing
February 1, 2011 By 28 Comments
Be aware, be very aware of this – 2011 will become the year of flash sales in travel. But not the way you think.
TLabs Showcase – Hotelyo
December 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Italy-based hotel private sale website Hotelyo.
TLabs Showcase – AwayIGo
December 7, 2010 By 4 Comments
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based hotel private sale service AwayIGo.
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Kayak tests placing private-sale hotels into search results, collects booking details
July 15, 2010 By 4 Comments
Kayak began testing the placement of Private Sale banner ads on top of its core hotel-search results in select markets and, unlike other metasearch websites, Kayak collects the booking details from the consumer when Kayak sources the hotel deal.
Kayak goes public with Private Sale hotels, rewriting metasearch playbook
January 28, 2010 By 9 Comments
Kayak quietly introduced its Private Sale exclusive hotel deals, where Kayak, in an apparent travel-metasearch first, collects the booking and credit-card details from the consumer.
Kayak’s collection of customer information would ‘assist’ its media business
January 19, 2010 By 2 Comments
Kayak’s burgeoning effort to turn the metasearch model on its head by facilitating some aspects of consumer bookings will go much further than its mobile app, and eventually could permeate its websites.
That’s the word from Kayak co-founder and CEO Steve Hafner, who says “assisted bookings” will first be trotted out in its pending launch of Private Sale, will be woven into its mobile app “soon,” and will be launched on its websites, too.
One aspect of “assisted sales” that hasn’t been thoroughly vetted is that the move could be a significant boost to Kayak’s behavioral advertising efforts, and could be subject to some push-back from partners.
Kayak Private Sale continues to draw public questions
January 14, 2010 By 9 Comments
Kayak Private Sale, the travel metasearch company’s upcoming offering of exclusive hotel, flight and vacation package deals to registered users, is an interesting product name for a company considering an initial public offering, but I digress.
A departure from Kayak’s core metasearch business,Private Sale has raised some eyebrows in Australia and the U.S.
Fellow Tnooz node Tim Hughes, writing for his personal blog, The BOOT – The Business of Online Travel, pointed out that getting into the exclusive deals’ business makes Kayak “a zero percenter no more” in terms of an operational-costs’ advantage. And former Kayaker Drew Patterson notes that offering exclusive deals is not part of Kayak’s traditional DNA.
