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Articles tagged “hotels”

Online Travel

TripAdvisor’s Instant Booking Bet Looks Ugly Right Now

TripAdvisor continues to labor to transform its business from a media/advertising model toward a booking site -- under the glare of all-too-often impatient pundits and investors. The big decline in its revenue per hotel shopper, meanwhile, is likely a temporary hurdle but TripAdvisor management still has a helluva lot to prove.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

TripAdvisor’s Instant Booking Bet Looks Ugly Right Now
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Hotels

How Machine Learning is Making Hoteliers Smarter

In the hotel of the future, tedious tasks like pricing and demand forecasting will run in the background, allowing revenue teams to be unshackled from their spreadsheets and given the time to focus on things that really matter.

LodgIQ + Skift | 8 years ago

How Machine Learning is Making Hoteliers Smarter

Announcements

New Skift Deck: The State of Global Travel 2016

This 137-page Skift deck curates data from every sector of travel and provides a wide sweeping overview of the state of the world’s largest sector and the forces driving it today. This is the State of Travel in 2016.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 8 years ago

New Skift Deck: The State of Global Travel 2016
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Hotels

What Design-Centric Travelers Want in Hotels and Destinations

While casual travelers rely on Google search results and TripAdvisor reviews to inform their booking decisions, the growing sect of design-centric travelers are seeking out hotels and experiences as diverse and multidimensional as they are.

Surface Hotels + Skift | 8 years ago

What Design-Centric Travelers Want in Hotels and Destinations

Hotels

Starwood Executives’ Golden Parachutes Got More Golden With New Marriott Offer

The Anbang investor group's last-minute bid nearly doubled the compensation Starwood executives will receive, if the new Marriott deal closes. Golden parachutes, indeed.

Deanna Ting, Skift | 8 years ago

Starwood Executives’ Golden Parachutes Got More Golden With New Marriott Offer

Hotels

These Hilton Hotels Have Meeting Group Sales Down to a Science in Chicago

If hotels want to book more meetings and events, they need to know how to speak the specific industry language of the events and planners they’re working with.

Deanna Ting, Skift | 8 years ago

These Hilton Hotels Have Meeting Group Sales Down to a Science in Chicago

Hotels

This Is How Marriott Could Lose Starwood to Anbang’s Investor Group

Money talks, and Anbang seems to have a lot more of it to spend right now than Marriott is willing to give up to keep Starwood.

Deanna Ting, Skift | 8 years ago

This Is How Marriott Could Lose Starwood to Anbang’s Investor Group

Hotels

Marriott Investor Call: This Is What We Have in Store for Starwood

This is assuming Marriott and Starwood actually close their deal this year, which, given what's happened over that past week, is still not a sure thing, obviously.

Deanna Ting, Skift | 8 years ago

Marriott Investor Call: This Is What We Have in Store for Starwood

Hotels

A Radical Thought: Do Millennials Really View Travel Differently?

Travel marketers may really be off base if they overplay their hand toward Millennials. Two studies found that although Millennials as a group have huge buying power when it comes to travel, other groups' travel aspirations aren't all that different.

Deanna Ting, Skift | 8 years ago

A Radical Thought: Do Millennials Really View Travel Differently?

Hotels

Marriott Enters the Cuban Market Like Starwood and Airbnb Before It

The hotel race in Cuba is officially on.

Deanna Ting, Skift | 8 years ago