Hotel Industry Trends - Technology

These days, bashing online travel agencies has become a popular sport. The likes of Expedia, Travelocity and Priceline are being blamed for commoditizing hotels, for decimating rates, and for training travelers to demand deep discounts. We can probably find a way to blame them for that oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico too. - More

Leading Travel Publisher adds Hotel Visual Content Powered by VFM Leonardo to Hotel Pages - More

The key goals of the survey were to identify and analyze what hotel e-business professionals are currently doing and what they plan to do in the next year to enhance the online presence of their hotel(s), the travel shopper experience and drive online booking conversions - More

Video Interview with Pegasus’ COO Ric Leutwyler on What Hoteliers can do to Increase Booking Ratios. - More

Here are some of the latest trends in online video from SearchEngineWatch.com - More

I can see dignified concierges everywhere clutching their golden keys and gasping in indignation at the title of this article. But hear me out. - More

Video Interview with Richard Wiegmann on the State of the Travel Industry and What Hoteliers can do to Prepare for the Upturn. - More

People literally camped out for a week, lines miles long, minimum waiting times of three hours - all just to own the newest addition to the iPhone wonder family. There is no question that advances in smart phones and mobile in general has changed the way we live, shop, compute and communicate and it doesn’t look like the hunger for more wil... - More

Last month TripAdvisor launched yet another feature that is sure to broaden hotel exposure - Trip Friends, an interface that ties into Facebook. Now travelers can tap into their network of friends and see a list of who has been to that location. In addition, they can direct message those friends or post a message to a group of friends - taking t... - More

Continued congestion in mobile phone networks, vibrant tablet computer sales and modest demand of eReaders have all manifested as predicted. However, demand for cloud computing has been more limited so far, and mobile search has experienced slower progress, at least for the first half of the year. - More