More hotels push for direct booking
April 23, 2016
A growing number of hotels are offering discounts and free Wi-Fi when customers book direct.
A growing number of hotels are offering discounts and free Wi-Fi when customers book direct.
Priceline’s Booking.com subsidiary will soon become the first U.S.-accessible agency to book—and pay for—hotel rooms in Cuba directly on-line. The instant booking service, which will
TripAdvisor is expanding its Instant Booking feature to 9 more counties with English-language websites, and plans to extend it worldwide.
Principal Designer at Booking.com Stuart Frisby The Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s competition regulator, said Booking.com must delete ‘ best price’ clauses from it’s contracts and general terms and conditions that affect
Booking.com’s Amsterdam headquarters Booking.com has just passed a milestone: It booked its one-billionth guest since its start nearly 20 years ago. The site was founded in 1996 in Entschiede in the Netherlands, and is now one of the key…
TripAdvisor just took one giant step forward in its plans to be a one-stop review and booking site by a deal with booking.com which will allow TripAdvisor to directly book customers into booking.com’s 436,000 rooms. It’s part of a series…
Sometimes numbers get so big they’re hard to visualize or believe, and here’s one of those numbers: During the first three months of 2015, booking.com handled 106,400,000 hotel room nights. That’s right…over 100 million….
Booking.com’s new plan: work both sides of the front desk at hotels. Photo: Wikimedia / opera cadet Booking.com, possibly the biggest busiest
Or maybe 2. Expedia has snapped up Orbitz and its subsidiary brands, including ebookers.com and CheapTickets.com. In the past year it has also acquired former main rival Travelocity. Its remaining big rival is Priceline, which owns…
You may soon have a real reason to use a “metasearch” site such as Kayak or Travago to find your European hotel room, rather than an actual booking site such as Booking.com or Expedia. Up to now, almost all prices have been the same; that may be about…
A growing number of hotels are offering discounts and free Wi-Fi when customers book direct.
Priceline’s Booking.com subsidiary will soon become the first U.S.-accessible agency to book—and pay for—hotel rooms in Cuba directly on-line. The
TripAdvisor is expanding its Instant Booking feature to 9 more counties with English-language websites, and plans to extend it worldwide.
Principal Designer at Booking.com Stuart Frisby The Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s competition regulator, said Booking.com must delete ‘ best price’ clauses from it’s contracts and general
Booking.com’s Amsterdam headquarters Booking.com has just passed a milestone: It booked its one-billionth guest since its start nearly 20 years ago. The site was founded in 1996 in Entschiede in the Netherlands, and is now one of the key…
TripAdvisor just took one giant step forward in its plans to be a one-stop review and booking site by a deal with booking.com which will allow TripAdvisor to directly book customers into booking.com’s 436,000 rooms. It’s part of a series…
Sometimes numbers get so big they’re hard to visualize or believe, and here’s one of those numbers: During the first three months of 2015, booking.com handled 106,400,000 hotel room nights. That’s right…over 100 million….
Booking.com’s new plan: work both sides of the front desk at hotels. Photo: Wikimedia / opera cadet
Or maybe 2. Expedia has snapped up Orbitz and its subsidiary brands, including ebookers.com and CheapTickets.com. In the past year it has also acquired former main rival Travelocity. Its remaining big rival is Priceline, which owns…
You may soon have a real reason to use a “metasearch” site such as Kayak or Travago to find your European hotel room, rather than an actual booking site such as Booking.com or Expedia. Up to now, almost all prices have been the same; that may be about…