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Same-day booking scene loses momentum - IN2NITE a high profile victim

By Kevin May | April 1, 2015

It was a never a "bubble", as some like to call it, but the same-day travel booking sector certainly had started feeling like the the online trip planning market. Led, most would (probably begrudgi Read More

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HotelTonight tests a concierge messaging service

By Sean O'Neil | February 25, 2015

Mobile on-demand travel startup HotelTonight has been doing limited tests of a concierge service. A HotelTonight user was recently offered a chance to use a concierge, referred to as an HT Ace, "a. Read More

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HotelTonight adds geo-targeted rates, in a fresh twist on segmentation

By Sean O'Neil | January 27, 2015

HotelTonight now lets hotels show cheaper rates only to particular guests, as determined by their mobile device's signal. The pioneer last-minute hotel booking startup said today it has added two t Read More

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Pivotal moments in 2014 - when digital travel finally matured

By Alex Bainbridge | December 19, 2014

It would very difficult to put your finger on something that significantly altered in 2014. Yet perhaps the pivotal moment isn't a moment at all, but a sense. Airbnb, Uber and HotelTonight, for Read More

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Why you should avoid selling rooms for peanuts on last-minute hotel apps

By Viewpoints | December 5, 2014

This Thanksgiving holiday in the US was an eventful one for the hospitality industry, not least due to one particular last-minute hotel app. What got my attention was the Black Friday offer of $7 r Read More

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HotelTonight looks to tomorrow's hotel guest experience

By Nick Vivion | November 17, 2014

After 10 years as an attendee, HotelTonight CEO Sam Shank took to the Phocuswright stage with a look to tomorrow's hotel experience. The vision? An integrated system of interoperable apps that p Read More

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Simpler search, single purpose apps and other mobile travel takeaways

By Linda Fox | November 11, 2014

At some point or other, most of us will have heard that mobile is just another channel. Yet many now see it as much more than that. From a Facebook point of view, it has become more of a human beha Read More

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Ryanair updates app with languages, mTrip updates white label apps, HotelTonight integrates Apple Pay, and more...

By PhocusWire | October 31, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DEVICES in tourism and hospitality for October 2014. Friday 31 October 2014: Ryanair updates mobile app Ryanair has updated its Read More

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The art of the pitch: the travel industry doesn't care about your exit strategy

By Valyn Perini | October 23, 2014

I’ve sat through, and sometimes judged, many pitch competitions in the travel industry over the last few years. My role as a judge has always been as an industry subject matter expert, not an inves Read More

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LastRoom's pivot: 5 travel startup truths learned the hard way

By Viewpoints | September 30, 2014

Mexico City-based LastRoom.com recently pivoted from courting leisure travelers as the "Latin American HotelTonight" to a business-to-business (B2B) model. Here's why -- including the five truths I Read More

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Olery opens social API, Wego debuts TV ads, MatchByte gets more Scoot, and more...

By PhocusWire | September 29, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel MARKETING in tourism and hospitality for September 2014. 29 September 2014: Olery opens its social API The Amsterdam-based co Read More

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Q&A with HotelTonight's CEO on its shift to same-week booking

By Sean O'Neil | September 26, 2014

HotelTonight officially announced today its switch from a same-day booking model to a same-week one, as Tnooz reported earlier this week. We caught up with CEO and co-founder Sam Shank by phone to Read More

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HotelTonight to switch from pure same-day booking model

By Sean O'Neil | September 24, 2014

Travel technology company HotelTonight is moving away from its signature same-day booking model to a more flexible one, where users can book up to seven days in advance. Beta-testing is set to laun Read More

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Sorry, HotelTonight - some eye-opening data on the size of the last-minute mobile booking sector

By Viewpoints | September 10, 2014

It's been one of the hottest topics in digital travel circles for a few years now: last-minute and same-day hotel bookings via mobile. And of course the poster child for the trend has been HotelTon Read More

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The Flight Tonight app aims to bring spontaneity to the masses

By Sean O'Neil | July 28, 2014

Last-minute airfare search app Flight Tonight -- which operates like a HotelTonight for plane tickets -- has debuted in the Apple App Store. Flight Tonight helps travelers search for the cheapest r Read More

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