Articles tagged “deals”

There's a bit of a carnival barker's promise here -- you know something's loaded against you -- but it's still a cheap way of promoting the benefits of your less-than-rainy destination to places with much bleaker weather.

A price cut is the absolute last thing that the cruise industry needs. There's no way Carnival and its peers can argue that their race to the bottom hasn't created conditions where accidents are much more likely. Even lower prices will arguably make things worse.

Known for its user reviews, TripAdvisor is getting further into hotel transactions through its Tingo site. Adding room upgrades as a possibility for guests is a nice twist, and it is probably being welcomed by hotels, as well.

For all its problems, Jetsetter is a market leader in hotel flash sales, and an acquisition at a bargain-rate sale price could help TripAdvisor inject some life into SniqueAway.

Critics have long charged that Groupon is not a sustainable business. That's because Groupon tends to turn off merchants because Groupon's cut of sales is so huge. Groupon's decision to take a diminished slice amount to a recognition that the critics were right to a certain extent.

From Groupon to Travelzoo and LivingSocial, the bloom is long off the rose in the daily deals space for travel and beyond. Amazon, which is an investor in LivingSocial, reports that LivingSocial recorded a $905 million operating loss in 2012.

Cheapair.com wants you to book any day of the week so perhaps its finding about Tuesdays and Wednesday not necessarily being the best days should be taken with a grain of salt. Still, it's worth considering.

Travelzoo has a relatively large customer base, and should be able make hotel bookings more solid than daily deals.

Travelzoo began a Wall Street darling two years ago based on its pivot into Local Deals, but now there is a plunge back to reality.

This isn’t the first app to offer localized deals, but it likely has the largest user base to offer the coupons to after a surge of users turned to the app following Apple’s recommendations.