Room Key recently announced new partnerships with La Quinta, Millenium Hotels & Resorts, and the Leading Hotels of the World, bringing the total available properties to nearly 50,000. So what does this mean for the fledgling hotel booking engine?
Room Key CEO talks partnerships, numbers and value propositions
October 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
Hotel revolution needed: Start with guarantee policies and pull GDSs out of the Old School
July 30, 2012 By 6 Comments
Following the success of partnerships with Google’s Hotel Finder and Room Key, hotel central reservation system vendor Trust International sees a proliferation of online booking channels a boon to hoteliers.
What is new in hotel distribution? Not a lot actually
July 2, 2012 By 22 Comments
After three and a half days of wandering around the annual HITEC event in the US, I will argue there is not much going on in hotel distribution. Honestly.
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Room Key founders share spotlight in Travelocity white-label deal
May 14, 2012 By 5 Comments
Room Key was supposed to be all about getting more hotel bookings for the major chains that founded the site, right?
Room Key reveals partnerships, unveils TripAdvisor reviews
May 9, 2012 By 2 Comments
Four-month-old Room Key checked out of beta and revealed new partnerships with Sabre Hospitality and TravelClick as it attempts to bulk up its hotel choices with independent properties and additional chains.
Room Key launches in new four markets, but Hotelicopter team start bailing out
March 22, 2012 By 1 Comment
Big chain-backed hotel search engine Room Key is spreading into new territories this week with news that it is opening sites for consumers in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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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.
Trust International weeks away from unlocking Room Key for members
March 8, 2012 By 1 Comment
Hospitality resevation and distribution specialist Trust International is two weeks away from connecting to Room Key, the online hotel venture started by a number of hotel chains in January
Booking.com big for Priceline but only scratching the surface in Europe
February 29, 2012 By 5 Comments
Priceline’s annual results published this week leave us much to speculate about regarding Netherlands-based booking.com and it’s strategy going forward
Lastminute.com extends opaque model to car hire and more, warns of OTA struggle
January 13, 2012 By 2 Comments
European online travel agency Lastminute.com has increased the number of products available on its Top Secret opaque model to car hire, theatre tickets and restaurants.
