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Hotel booking site DealAngel offers pricing intelligence API to developers
DigitalDealAngel, the site that lets you search for hotels and compare prices based on their historic and broader market value to ensure you really are getting a good deal, has launched a private beta of its API — essentially adding a B2B element to its otherwise consumer-facing offering. It’s a move that makes quite a [...]
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Israel strategizes ways to encourage domestic travel and assure international tourists
DestinationsIndustry officials discussed with Misezhnikov ways to restore tourism. The Tour Guides Association recommended sending tour guide representatives…to meet with groups overseas who are planning to visit Israel within the next few months in order to explain the situation and reassure them that Israel is a safe place to visit. In order to bring the [...]
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Are hoteliers waiting until after the election to finalize deals?
DestinationsThe U.S. transactions market has sputtered throughout the better part of 2012. But the upcoming presidential election might be the remedy needed to kick-start the market, transactions experts report. Through June, just $5.9 billion of U.S. hotel transactions have closed, according to STR Analytics…that compares to $19.4 billion for the full year 2011. According to [...]
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HotelTonight acquires PrimaTable for technology and team
DigitalHotelTonight acquired fellow San Francisco startup PrimaTable, which specializes in revenue management for restaurants — but don’t expect HotelTonight to deliver restaurant reservations or room service any time soon. Sam Shank, HotelTonight co-founder and CEO, says PrimaTable’s yield-management software will be folded into HotelTonight’s existing platform to improve its effectiveness for participating hotels. This is [...]
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Getaroom’s Diener and Litman doing it their way two decades after Hotels.com gave hoteliers fits
DigitalBob Diener is the sales, marketing and finance guy, who calmly and openly talks up the unique elements of his latest little project. David Litman is the tenacious tech guy, focusing on the website, the call center operation, and customer service. In the 1990s and through 2003, they guided their baby, Hotel Reservations Network, which [...]
