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Articles tagged “hipmunk”

Online Travel

The New Design of Travel Apps in Apple’s iOS 7 Mobile Operating System

Following such a large redesign, user experience is key for each of these apps. Luckily each of them kept things simple, clean, and easy to use.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 11 years ago

The New Design of Travel Apps in Apple’s iOS 7 Mobile Operating System

Online Travel

Kayak Homepage Redesign Keeps Pace With its Biggest Rivals

Simpler homepages have been a trend over the last few years, and lately hotel-search sites have been catching up. Kayak, Google, and Trivago are among the sites that have streamlined their hotel-search widgets into one line in a bid to get less complicated and distracting.

Dennis Schaal , Skift | 11 years ago

Kayak Homepage Redesign Keeps Pace With its Biggest Rivals

Hotels

Hipmunk New Tonight-Only Deals for Mobile Devices Goes Big

Do you want great hotel rates for tonight, or do you want all the rates for tonight that are available on mobile? Hipmunk is banking on its belief that travelers will go for the latter so they don't have to hop around from app to app.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Hipmunk New Tonight-Only Deals for Mobile Devices Goes Big

Airlines

Google Wants to Take the Agony Out of Flight Search, Just Like Hipmunk

Google would never merely imitate what Hipmunk is doing. You can be assured that under the hood there are a whole lot of analytics going on to determine what the Best Flights really are.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Hipmunk Tries to Improve Hotel Bookings with Trip Types

Hipmunk needs to make a big push to become a household name. Easier said than done. The redesign of its hotel pages is an attempt to speed and simplify the user experience, but somehow it seems more complicated than before.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Hipmunk Tries to Improve Hotel Bookings with Trip Types

Online Travel

The real-world challenges for travel startups, as mirrored in Hipmunk’s story

Funded, lean and focused, Hipmunk can take its sweet, little time honing its product to get ready for a larger profile. Whether it ever emerges from beautiful product to major player is a very open question. There is plenty of money to be made even as a relatively small company, but Hipmunk's ambitions are huge.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

The real-world challenges for travel startups, as mirrored in Hipmunk’s story

Online Travel

Hipmunk dives deeper into hotel business with direct bookings

Many travel startups focus their attention on hotels as they’re more lucrative than flights and there is more room for innovation. It’s a lesson that Hipmunk appears to have learned and is now working through it without abandoning its original flights product.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Hipmunk dives deeper into hotel business with direct bookings

Airlines

Hipmunk CEO talks up Airbnb, Amtrak and generational shift

The travel landscape is indeed changing, but it remains to be seen whether Hipmunk will have the staying power to see it all through.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Hipmunk CEO talks up Airbnb, Amtrak and generational shift

Airlines

Infographic: Where and how Americans are traveling to taste the turkey this year

Americans can brace themselves for crowded highways and busy airports this week, but the good news is that travel is consistently more congested during Thanksgiving than the December holidays.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Infographic: Where and how Americans are traveling to taste the turkey this year

Media and PR

The travel booking sites that see a future in neighborhood content

"Neighborhood" is the buzzword for online travel sites this week, but it’s too soon to tell whether it’s a stroke of genius for catering to mobile travelers looking for localized content or very expensive dead end.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

The travel booking sites that see a future in neighborhood content