When It Comes To Collecting Taxes From Travelers, Not All Places Are Created Equal

When it comes to collecting taxes from travelers, not all places are created equal. At least that’s what a new study of the top 50 U.S. travel destinations reveals. Top 10 U.S. destinations where travelers incur the lowest and highest total taxes in central city locations:  Lowest 1. Fort Lauderdale, FL 2.  Fort Myers, FL 3. West Palm Beach, FL [...]

Hotelmine Goes Live

Hotelmine has announced that it has officially moved into the soft launch stage at www.hotelmine.com. Hotels can Click Here to register their hotel or to learn more about how Hotelmine works by clicking Here. See where the worlds largest “Direct Connect” online leisure travel site can take you!

Hilton Orlando takes hospitality honors

The Hilton Orlando has kicked off the New Year in grand fashion, receiving two highly decorated hospitality industry honors. The Connie Award and the Satisfaction and Loyalty Tracking (SALT) award come from Hilton Worldwide and are a testament to the property’s exceptional dedication to customer service. The “Connie” Award, named after Conrad Hilton, founder of [...]

A Hotel’s Case for Direct Connect

If it costs the airlines billions to conduct business through OTAs and the GDS then what will it take for the hotel industry to re-think its current conventional distribution strategy? The recent actions by American Airlines to move forward with their “direct connect” model has ushered in a new era of how products and services [...]

Groups International Unveils Hotelmine.com

Monday, April 26, 2010 – HOUSTON, TX—Groups International has announced that they will launch Hotelmine.com, a new leisure travel site that directly connects hotels with customers in a unique transactional environment. “What makes Hotelmine different is that our hotel partners share or create their own packages and promotions through the Hotelmine website and when our [...]