An online coupon for $30 off a five-night booking with online travel service hotels.com was the top coupon in May 2010 according to coupon aggregator RetailMeNot, which recently released its coupon data report for the month.
April 18, 2014
Sabre on Thursday priced its initial public offering at $16 per share, less than the $18 to $20 range that was projected earlier this month. Sabre said net proceeds of $588 million to $677 million would be used to repay debt.
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April 18, 2014
Starwood plans to continue updating the app based on user feedback, but for now there appears to be a decent set of features. This list includes being able to search (by voice) for any of the 1,100 Starwood hotels and get turn-by-turn directions to the hotel as well as explore and share images of the hotel, rooms and more.
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April 18, 2014
Call it what you will: crowdsourcing content, consumer co-creation, or any other half dozen terms. It is the future of marketing across many industries, and Marriott's TravelBrilliantly.com could be a catalyst for widespread adoption in hospitality.
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April 18, 2014
New research from Benchmark Hositality suggests that an attractive and user-friendly hotel website with direct booking option generates revenue with the travel agents - in fact agents use this method 34% of the time for making reservations (GDS is 38% of TA bookings).
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April 18, 2014
One key ingredient of a successful hotel reservations sales program is to train your team on the contemporary sales tactics needed to covert today’s over-informed, channel-surfing callers. Yet there are other essential components for continuous success on the endless journey to reservations sales excellence.
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