Room 77 secures $10.5 million in Series B financing...
Sunnyvale, California-based Room 77, a venture that has come up the world’s first hotel room database and search engine, has secured $10.5 million in Series B financing. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from existing institutional...
Roaming charges remain the biggest barrier to using mobile devices: study...
Roaming charges remain the biggest barrier to using mobile devices on international holiday, according to a survey in the UK. A survey of over 1,200 British TripAdvisor users reveals that that a significant 22 percent of respondents have incorporated a...
Understanding paid search activities of top OTAs...
Kantar Media’s analysis of the top 10 search advertisers on Google for the first quarter of 2011 shows a total investment level of $252.2 million, an increase of 57.5 percent compared to a year ago. Half of the companies in...
Optimising travel sites’ content for quick response times...
Over 50 percent of travel sites take so long to load that they lose the attention of customers who will go off to the next site, according to a study of more than 30 popular travel sites performed by Cybercom...
Offering access of one hotel Facebook Page to numerous administrators...
Managing a Facebook presence can be a lot of work. Many companies give administrative access to their professional Facebook Page to employees. A hotel owner, for example, could make a number of employees, or even partners, administrators of their hotel...
Ensuring companies fully capture benefits of tough hotel negotiations...
This year’s hotel rate negotiations were tough on corporate travel managers, who quickly learned that the power they enjoyed in the depth of the recession had begun to shift back to hoteliers. The result: average rate increases of between three...
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