Hotels Delivering Customers To TripAdvisor

Did you ever visit a hotel’s website and see something on their homepage that led you to say to yourself “Self, what the h.ll were they thinking about when they made that decision?” That’s what happened today while conducting a search for a particular hotel, landed on their homepage, and noticed that little TripAdvisor owl [...]

Where Oh Where Are These Hotel Brands In The Top US Sites?

In today’s Tnooz release “Expedia and Priceline stretch lead – Top US travel sites – August 6, 2011” these two brands were sited as to have extended their dominance of US travel websites by securing almost a quarter of all traffic from agency sites. If I were an agency site I’d be rolling my eyes, [...]

Groupon & Expedia's "Sort of a Discount on Your Next Getaway" Partnership

Tnooz has announced that Groupon and Expedia are teaming up to offer “deeply discounted travel deals” to its customer base.  This sounds like a novel concept so how will it work? Travel deals need to include a couple of components in order to make this thing really hum and be compelling. This is a getaway isn’t [...]

Cosmo Las Vegas Says No No No To Expedia

In the price war still plaguing hotels on the Strip, the Cosmopolitan seems a bit like the new kid who’s too cool to play with the others. Since the property opened in December, room rates have been slightly higher than other luxury resorts in town, running nightly rates of about $200 to $300 during the week and closer [...]

The battle between American Airlines and Online Travel Agencies has hotels cleared for take off

Along with a brighter outlook for the hotel industry comes a new alternative to the high cost of doing business with online travel giants like Expedia and Orbitz. If you conduct a Google search for “hotels in New York City” the search return will provide more than 84 million results where most feature links to [...]