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The SCAN – HomeAway’s Asia expansion, Thomas Cook North America sold, Cathay mobile pass and more travel tech news
March 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Legacy tech holding back progress in the payment world but social media seen as an opportunity
March 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
When it comes to payment challenges, travel executives cite card surcharges and international payments as their biggest headaches
The global all-stars of upselling and cross-selling have tricks to teach the travel industry
November 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
More impact, higher margins — for top retailers, there’s method to their ancillary sales, says Amadeus and IdeaWorksCompany.
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Survey: US adults doing mobile check-ins more than doubled
May 11, 2012 By 2 Comments
You go out for dinner and check-in from the restaurant using foursquare or Facebook and a companion — or two — wonders aloud why you persist in telling the world where you are.
Does a good digital strategy ensure profits for hoteliers?
April 10, 2012 By 2 Comments
That’s what the latest Digital IQ Index report from L2 Think Tank says when it reviewed the “digital competence” of 52 of the world’s leading hotel brands.
Report: Hotels’ digital prowess brings higher stock price and room revenue
March 27, 2012 By 1 Comment
Does a hotel’s overall digital competence translate into more revenue per available room and a bump in its stock price?
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How many hotels in the world are there anyway? Booking.com keeps adding them
March 26, 2012 By 27 Comments
Booking.com says it offers 202,842 hotels globally and a new report says the Priceline Group — Booking.com, Agoda and Priceline.com — collectively is adding properties at a quickening pace.
Are business travelers using mobile getting Groupon crazy?
August 24, 2011 By 2 Comments
Has Groupon and the voucher craze in general seeped into the psyche of smartphone-wielding road warriors?
ARC to release monthly numbers on online, corporate travel sales
December 16, 2009 By 2 Comments
The Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC), the airline-owned settlement service, will begin releasing, on a regular basis, monthly numbers for online travel agency and travel management company sales.
ARC has traditionally released monthly stats on travel agency sales, including the dollar amounts, numbers of transactions and a breakdown of things like domestic and international fares.
For example, total travel agency sales remitted through ARC in November 2009 increased 6.72% to $5.1 billion, compared with the previous November, and this was the first monthly uptick of the year.
