Articles tagged “hotels.com”

Baseball's N.Y. Yankees had its "core four" of Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera. And Expedia has its own core four, namely Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Trivago, and Egencia as the foundation for global growth and the plan is to add regional acquisitions around the edges.

Some Latin American destinations had the highest room rates in the world last year, although the growth of rates slowed for the regional as a whole despite the presence of the World Cup in Brazil.

While the Trivago Guy's love-him-or-hate him TV ads garnered a lot of media attention in 2014, it was the Expedia brand that really kicked butt on TV.

While the national average room rate may be $137, along with everyone claiming the economy is nearly back to normal, more than half of the top cities have lower averages. This reflects the continuing economic recovery and hotels trying to get guests in the door, meaning it's still a great time to find hotel deals.

Summer is the time for group travel. Identify with your brand's audience through their families and friends.

If iPad users have more fun, staying at more luxurious hotels, that's not hard to believe. Hotels.com's high percentage of mobile, same-day bookers, though, seem off the charts.

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.

Americans need more vacation days. Period. End of story.

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.