Articles tagged “reservations”

Hotels

OTA Insight Buys Kriya as Hotel Owners Seek Data Analytics

This deal reflects a broader trend of hotel operators and owners seeking tools to analyze their data. The old way of using a mess of spreadsheets became unmanageable during the labor crunch.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

OTA Insight Buys Kriya as Hotel Owners Seek Data Analytics

Startups

HotelPlanner and Reservations.com Scrap $688 Million SPAC Merger

The companies didn't say why the merger failed. But the popularity of going public via mergers with SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, is waning. At least 22 deals have fallen apart since mid-2021, said SPAC Research.

Niket Nishant, Reuters | 2 years ago

HotelPlanner and Reservations.com Scrap $688 Million SPAC Merger

Hotels

Skift Global Forum Preview: Marriott’s Loyalty Program Key to Competing With Airbnb and All-Inclusive Players

Marriott believes it has a responsibility to make every type of lodging accommodation available to travelers. That, in a nutshell, explains the company's activity — and challenge — so far in 2019.

Danni Santana, Skift | 5 years ago

Skift Global Forum Preview: Marriott’s Loyalty Program Key to Competing With Airbnb and All-Inclusive Players

Hotels

Marriott CEO Tells Senators Passport Changes Being Considered After Data Breach

You can see the dilemma that Marriott and other hotels face: Keep passport data strictly at the property level, where management may not be technically adept, or centralize the information where it can be potentially hacked in one fell swoop. CEO Sorenson is leaning toward the local approach. Either way is risky business.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Food and Drink

Skift Table: The New Restaurant Reservations Landscape

Chefs+Tech is now Skift Table. Kicking off our original coverage, here are three perspectives on the evolving business of reservations.

Kristen Hawley, Skift Table | 7 years ago

Skift Table: The New Restaurant Reservations Landscape

Food and Drink

Chefs+Tech: The Rise of the Grocerant

The addition of restaurants to retail has been a big shift in U.S. dining habits and one that finds plenty of antecedents around the world.

Chefs+Tech | 7 years ago

Chefs+Tech: The Rise of the Grocerant

Hotels

Guests Will Wait Until 2017 for InterContinental’s New Reservations System

If Amadeus and InterContinental Hotels Group build a new guest reservations system for the "community," will the hotel industry community buy in and introduce the system? That's the hope, anyway.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Guests Will Wait Until 2017 for InterContinental’s New Reservations System

Online Travel

Online Travel Gets a Woman CEO and a Rebrand

Toni Portmann inherits the distribution side of the Pegasus business, which formerly provided both hotel reservations services and distribution. In so doing, she will lead the healthier segment as the hotel reservations' portion has drastically given up market share over the last few years.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Online Travel Gets a Woman CEO and a Rebrand