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Online Hotel Booking Sites Experiencing Big Surge in Look-to-Book Ratios
Online travel shoppers are clicking their hearts out, but not many of them are actually booking hotel rooms, buying airline tickets or renting cars.All that looking — minus the booking — costs online travel companies additional server space and technology infrastructure. And it could get worse before it gets better.
Analysts say a combination of the [...]
AirAsia’s $3 hotel rooms target Phuket
TuneHotels.com, the Malaysian budget hotel venture affiliated with the no-frills carrier AirAsia, is making a debut in Thailand as part of its aggressive Asian expansion that could lead to more than 100 sites becoming operational by 2014.
The company announced yesterday a strategic partnership with Evolution Capital Plc (EC), a SET-listed real estate investment and management [...]
HolidayCheck launches its new site
HolidayCheck officially launches the enhanced .com site. Usability and design have been improved, making it even easier for users to submit hotel and cruise reviews, upload their own holiday pictures and videos and share their travel experiences with others.
“The launch of the new .com site is extremely significant”, says Friedrich Scanzoni, Managing Director of the [...]
LateRooms.com named ‘Best Accommodation Website’ at 2009 Travolution Awards
LateRooms.com, the UK’s leading accommodation booking website, was named ‘Best Accommodation-Only Website’ at the Travolution awards – an annual ceremony that recognises achievements and innovation in the UK travel industry.
The Salford-based company saw off competition from six other websites in its category at the ceremony, gaining recognition for its “extremely intuitive display of [...]
hotel.de AG posts positive figures for first nine months
hotel.de AG, one of the leading worldwide online hotel reservation services, finished the third quarter of 2009 on a successful note. Within the ongoing weak sector climate, the company generated sales of Euro 8.9 million, thus matching the previous year’s figure (Euro 8.9 million). Sales for the first nine months totalled Euro 24.3 million (previous [...]
HRS becomes the world’s first hotel portal in the App Store
It’s the perfect service for when you’re travelling: HRS, Europe’s leading hotel portal, now enables iPhone™ users to make bookings easily while on the road – no matter where they are. The Cologne-based company has become the world’s first hotel reservation company to develop a special program for the versatile iPhone™. The application can now [...]
