“Working with an OTA can actually help in growing the hotel’s direct channel objective”...
IN-DEPTH: Interview with Peter Lee, director of North Asia, Expedia By Ritesh Gupta Different distribution platforms cater to the need of different sets or groups of customers. For instance, a GDS caters to the agency and the agents who have...
Google works on new flight schedule feature...
Google has started incorporating airline flight schedules in its search results. “With the close of our ITA acquisition last month, we’re eager to begin developing new flight search tools to make it easier for you to plan a trip. While...
Bing Travel works on new features...
Microsoft has added social functionality to Bing Travel to ensure users’ friends are part of their travel planning experience. Other features are as follows: Updated Places Pages The company says it has continuously improved its Bing places pages, which pull...
Kayak acknowledges threat from leading Internet search engines...
Travel search engine Kayak processed more than 214 million user queries for travel information in the first quarter of this year. This represented growth of 48 percent over the three months ended March 31, 2010, according to Kayak. This performance...
Understanding the travel service decision funnel...
Consumers today are autonomous – both by choice and necessity. They have become more insular with a closely-knit sphere of influence, and this is affecting how they both arrive at and make purchase decisions. Family and friends are essentially tied...
Choice Hotels appoints Robert McDowell as its SVP global distribution...
Choice Hotels International has chosen Robert McDowell for the newly-created position of senior vice president of global distribution. In this role, McDowell will be responsible for the development and execution of Choice’s growing global, multi-channel marketing and distribution strategy. McDowell...
No comments:
Post a Comment