UK: Booking.com still uses 'unethical' pressure selling tactics - Warnings such as 'only one left at this price!' or 'last booked four hours ago' still appear on sites such as Booking.com and Agoda.

Jun 12, 2023 • Hospitality

Stand out to travelers on Expedia with refundable rates - If you don’t offer a refundable rate, you will disappear from a third of traveler searches on Expedia Group sites.

Jun 9, 2023 • Hospitality

HotelSlash, the newest player in the price-hacking travel game - The creators of a popular discount car rental booking platform are taking a crack at doing something similar with hotels - a members-only version, that is.

Jun 9, 2023 • Hospitality

Trends to watch in global hotel distribution - The hotel distribution landscape is facing potential transformation, driven in part by the entry of fintech and big banks.

Jun 7, 2023 • Hospitality

OTAs Q1 marketing spending shows wide variance - Along with spending a far smaller percentage of its revenue on marketing, Airbnb called out different strategic goals than both Booking.com and Expedia.

Jun 7, 2023 • Hospitality

Expedia poised to take flight with generative AI - CTO Rathi Murthy sees the OTA’s vast troves of data and AI expertise fueling a two-pronged transformation strategy.

Jun 5, 2023 • Hospitality

More travelers valuing skills, knowledge of travel advisors - Business is booming, and travel advisors continue to be a vital part of the travel industry.

Jun 2, 2023 • Hospitality

KAYAK launches "Best Time to Travel" tool - The tool incorporates predictive data from the company's billions of travel queries to forecast future flight and hotel prices.

Jun 2, 2023 • Hospitality