Hotel Industry News - Internet

Lodging Interactive an award winning interactive and social media marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry, today announced Link2Brand an innovative marketing solution for branded hotels. With Link2Brand hotels can launch their own marketing campaigns without the need of a dedicated hotel website; Link2Brand links directly to the bran... - More

Back in December 2003, Smith Travel Research published a much discussed article titled, 'The Billion Dollar Leak - The Impact of The Merchant Model on US Hotel Profits.' In this article the authors attempted to quantify the financial impact of third party sites on U.S. hotel industry room revenues and profits. To describe this loss, they coined ... - More

Fifth Paper in Series is Designed to Enhance Sales and Marketing Performance for Brands Within the Hospitality and Tourism Sectors - More

Lodging Interactive, a leading interactive marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry and the publisher of the free Chatter Guard Monthly Benchmark Monitor Report has released its June 2010 report. - More

After performing literally hundreds of website analyses, it amazes me how many hotel websites are either totally or partially dysfunctional. There are so many sites which are not in-step with even basic search engine requirements; sites with poorly written text content; inadequate navigation; and sites which are not designed to sell rooms or any... - More

(Derived from Spanish Rapido=Rapid, Zumbido=Buzz) generates rapid buzz for hotels, airlines and online travel agents (OTAs) on social networks - More

Website Design and Search Engine Marketing Services Provided By WRS - More

Facebook Places lets mobile device owners with Facebook accounts share their exact location and find the whereabouts of their friends. The free service, starting to roll out now, can be accessed from iPhone, iPod Touch, Android devices, BlackBerry Torch and the iPad. - More

Welcome to Facebook — population 500 million. That’s about as many users as there are females in India. So it's not surprising that companies would get around to exploiting the house that Mark Zuckerberg built sooner or later. That goes triple for travel-related industries, whose clientele tend to be extremely active on social network... - More

Starwood is the First Global Hospitality Company to Offer Comprehensive Online Travel Booking in Portuguese, ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil - More