2015 Archives

From luxury to boutique brands, changes in how travelers research, book, and experience hotels are impacting key experiences and forcing hoteliers to innovate on a company-wide and brand level basis.

The global distribution world has long offered vacation rentals to travel agents but the investments by Amadeus Ventures and former Sabre CFO Jeff Jackson in BookingPal symbolize new and more serious interest.

This was a booking awesome decision by the ASA. The UK regulatory body, in clearing a Booking.com TV ad, finally got one right.

Can a metasearch company serve two masters: its affiliate partners and its own brand? HotelsCombined is dancing that dance and will let us all know the answer eventually.

E-mail marketers are steering the industry's course toward more reliable conversions, more of the time.

Can cool high-tech offices in a hip Manhattan 'hood help attract the best design and digital visionaries? That's a rhetorical question.

Delta's CEO chose to hide behind 9/11 and all the paranoia around the word "Arab" than make a compelling argument or prove his case.

These are the newest travel startups from Angel List vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

Expedia continues on its rollup strategy by bringing its AirAsia joint venture officially into the Expedia fold.

Starwood is a leader in the lifestyle sector, but its international footprint and select-service room volume falls short of its competitors' at a time when the entire industry is looking forward to greater growth and profits.