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When flash sales aren’t enough: Living Social gets hotel rooms from Priceline

The move outwardly appears to make sense for LivingSocial: If you are attracting a lot of traffic among users who aren't interested in your flash sales, why not diversify and get them to reserve a different hotel. Just how the economics plays out in the end remains to be seen.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

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Room Key’s pop-under ads driving traffic but not bookings

There few more consumer-unfriendly sites than Room Key. For proof you don't have to look much further than the use of annoying pop-under ads as if the user made a conscious decision to visit their site.

Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

Why hotel marketing agencies don’t understand how to build decent websites

Hotel websites are only one tiny step away from architects' websites as the worst user experience on the Internet. From Flash-based sites to other whizz-bang applications (that never work on mobile, mind your) it's a field littered with failure. And hotels are to blame for falling for the nonsense of marketing agency salesmen.

Skift | 11 years ago

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The fragile ecosystem in Baja California that’s under threat from a Spanish resort chain

The coast along the Sea of Cortez is largely unspoiled by resorts, and where it is -- in places like La Paz and Loreto -- developers can't consistently fill the rooms they have. Building one slightly closer to Cabo won't make a huge difference -- except to a fragile ecosystem.

Skift | 11 years ago

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Hawaii’s increased hotel tax of 9.25 percent will be made permanent

B. J. Reyes, Honolulu Star-Advertiser | 11 years ago

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Snoozebox’s pop-up hotel bubble pops as losses triple & CEO leaves

The prefab hotel niche at music and sports events isn't a bad one, it just needs a good pipeline and solid collections mechanism considering the ad hoc nature of the business. Snoozebox is learning to grow up, after a great 2012 IPO.

Szu Ping Chan, Telegraph UK | 11 years ago

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The posh accommodations posing as hostels throughout Europe

Many European hostels today are nearly unrecognizable from their ancestors in design, but the culture of camaraderie remains as a wider group of tourists turn to the hostels for beds on the cheap.

Skift | 11 years ago

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NYC’s largest development reminds residents they can be evicted for vacation rentals

PCVST may have a ton of potential customers, but the complex's management is the 800-pound gorilla of New York City rentals and an enemy that's better avoided than attacked head on.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 11 years ago

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The vacation home market continues to do quite well, according to Marriott

We're not back to 2008 with consumers taking out home equity lines of credit to dig deep on a home purchase, but they're good enough to remind watchers how bad the last few years have been.

Associated Press | 11 years ago

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Cancun hotel occupancy rates are highest since start of economic crisis

The economic recession coupled with violent headlines and rising competition pushed Cancun tourism to record lows. Although occupancy is up, revenue still can't match 2007 numbers.

Associated Press | 11 years ago