Articles tagged “last-minute”

Hotels are losing the battle for last-minute mobile bookings to the online travel agencies. It's not a huge surprise given their respective marketing resources, but this could hurt hotels even more in the future as the shift to mobile bookings accelerates.

HotelTonight's marketing team likes to play up spontaneity as a prime booking motivator, but this data suggests that users are in need of reasonably priced rooms without the bells and whistles.

HotelTonight's reach may be broad, but it's not necessarily relevant in many of its new markets. Time would be better spent targeting major cities in Asia and Latin America than mining every possible market in Europe.

Well, you know what they say. Regardless what the activity is, there's an app for that. And, now there is. Hourly room rentals via a mobile app. We know HotelTonight is poised to broaden its offerings a bit, but we doubt the company will try to mimic Breather on this one.

The startups’ biggest challenges arr attracting enough users to populate the site and overcoming non-transferrable reservations and last-minute cancellations.

Poor Hotel Tonight: It pioneered tonight-only hotel deals, but now must compete with a bunch of competitors, including the most recent addition, Jetsetter.

The acquisition is just one in a series of wins for the British child of OpenTable and its impressive rolodex of restaurant partners, and adds an integral function to Lastminute’s booking functions.

Blink made a name for itself in the UK earlier this summer with a list of insane hotel breakfast prices. But with a presence in 70 cities across Europe, Blink is ahead of U.S. imports and clearly has more going for it than survey of good fry ups.