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San Francisco – 21 June 2017 – Airbnb changed its general terms and conditions and developed thereby to the highly professional booking channel for commercial offerers further. Most important innovations are rules to so-called co-hosts, i.e. other members of the community the administration of the advertisements (offers) left, for
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June 2017 – By Mike Murray, Founder of 1, the new inspiration/hotel booking app & website For many years, hotels and OTAs have had an ongoing feud, acting more like rivals than the (business) partners that they should be. While many hotels appreciate the bookings that OTAs provide, all hoteliers
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Bethesda, Maryland – 1 June 2017 – Beginning today, Marriott’s Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) is launching SPG Mobile Check-In for members at 22 hotels in the United States. More hotels will begin offering this feature exclusively on the SPG Mobile app with the global rollout completed by the end of
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Bergamo, Italy – 26 May 2017 – Global reservation technology leader Vertical Booking announced today the release of their new Premium Booking Engine. 1″We are continually improving our products to ensure we’re meeting the demands of our hotel partners, and their guests,” said Alberto Guadalupi, CEO of Vertical Booking Group.
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Needham, Massachusetts – 10 May 2017 – TripAdvisor is pulling back from a major strategic effort to get travellers to book hotels directly on its website after the initiative cut into revenue growth and sent the stock to its lowest price since 2012, Bloomberg reported. 1A massive online repository of hotel and
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McLean, Virginia – 6 May 2017 – Less than two years after launching an app functionality that gives Hilton Honors guests the ability to choose their room before arriving at a hotel and enter their room using the Hilton Honors app as a key, Hilton is scaling at a breakneck pace. Today,
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Las Vegas – 3 May 2017 – The Venetian Las Vegas launched one of the hospitality industry’s first Facebook Messenger direct booking channels – and the first for an individual hotel — offering guests the opportunity to book directly and securely through social messaging. 1 The Luxury Suite at at The Venetian Las
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Hanover/Munich, Germany – 3 May 2017 – 1You don’t have to be psychic to know why renowned PMS-delivery claims within the hospitality industry are being ignored. Two way interfaces to booking portals are not yet internationally favored by all hotel chains, therefore their programming remains secondary. But exactly these
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Hamburg, Germany – 3 May 2017 – 1Marriot is taking the lead: Due to the mobile app, last year’s direct bookings increased by 70 percent to 1.7 billion US-Dollars. The advantages are considerably: On the arrival day information about the hotel, the local area and important routes are shown
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Needham, Massachusetts – 19 April 2017 – TripAdvisor crossed now the 500 million reviews and opinions milestone. The popular travel planning and booking site and app now posts 290 pieces of content every minute of every day. The phenomenal growth in user-generated content has been fueled by travelers’ desire to “pay
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Hong Kong – 6 April 2017 – A new report by SapientRazorfish, part of the Publicis.Sapient platform, has highlighted the APAC travel industry’s need to embrace personalisation and improve loyalty. According to the report, titled Asia’s Evolving Online Travel Market, travel industry leaders agree data is the power seat
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Paris, France – 6 April 2017 – Following the acquisition of Fastbooking in 2015, AccorHotels announced the acquisition of Availpro. Created in 2001, Availpro is the leader in France and one of the leading European software providers to hoteliers with more than 6,500 clients.The consolidation of these two major players