Articles tagged “hotels.com”
Online Travel
How Mobile Travel Apps Have Transformed the User Experience
How long will it be before we talk about travel websites as always having an essential, if limited place, in much the same way that we sometimes talk about print guidebooks? Smartphones with bigger screens, tablets of mini and maximum dimensions ... buckle your seatbelts.
Online Travel
Hotel searches for Brazil spike up to 126 percent ahead of World Cup
World Cup buzz is expected to attract tourists to smaller Brazilian cities, while search growth is more modest in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro where tourism has already taken off.
Skift Originals
Americans get half the vacation time yearly as Russians. Go figure
Americans need more vacation days. Period. End of story.
Tourism
Are Americans from the Democratic or Republican party more fun when travelling?
Travel preferences and practices can be as personal and debated as political issues among experienced travelers, but the conversations regarding such are likely twice as much fun.
Hotels
SkiftStats: Global hotel prices up 4% as industry recovers
While prices are up globally and good news for hospitality industry, the average hotel prices are still at 2005 levels.
Media and PR
Hotels.com stumbles as it launches deal-centric Facebook app
It's fantastic that Hotels.com is being transparent about what's a deal and what isn't, but this is a bug rather than a feature.