HotelTonight

HotelTonight adds customisation to its last-minute hotel booking app
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HotelTonight adds customisation to its last-minute hotel booking app
By Sean O'Neil | September 18, 2012
This morning HotelTonight released a major update to its Apple and Android apps for last-minute hotel bookings, adding new tools to personalise the experience, such as Netflix-style recommendations. Read More
Priceline says its app covers the most markets for last-minute mobile bookings of hotels
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Priceline says its app covers the most markets for last-minute mobile bookings of hotels
By Sean O'Neil | September 13, 2012
The US OTA says that it offers geographic coverage of about 150 US markets on a typical evening, making it "the largest last-minute hotel deals service for mobile equipped travelers. Read More
The Scan: HotelTonight hits 3 million downloads and other news
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The Scan: HotelTonight hits 3 million downloads and other news
By Sean O'Neil | August 29, 2012
The last-minute hotel booking app expands to ten new destinations in the US and the UK, and more items in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion on 29 August. Read More
Fun and games in same-day hotel mobile bookings as Hotel Tonight launches in Europe
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Fun and games in same-day hotel mobile bookings as Hotel Tonight launches in Europe
By Kevin May | June 20, 2012
The last-minute hotel booking via a mobile model is heating up, with Hotel Tonight opening up operations outside of North America for the first time with a dedicated service for visitors to London. Read More
Blink Booking raises $2.5M from Brent Hoberman group and investment A-Listers
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Blink Booking raises $2.5M from Brent Hoberman group and investment A-Listers
By Kevin May | May 18, 2012
Another illustration that mobile and hotel distribution is changing with news that Europe-based same-day booking service Blink Booking has raised money from a string of web luminaries. Read More
Why tech-driven, last-minute travelers need a new approach to marketing
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Why tech-driven, last-minute travelers need a new approach to marketing
By Viewpoints | March 29, 2012
We live in a fast paced, minute-by-minute, "just-in-time" society. From Twitter to iTunes to HotelTonight, when people want something, they want it now. Read More
Beyond the Year of the Mobile - takeaways so far in 2012
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Beyond the Year of the Mobile - takeaways so far in 2012
By Glenn Gruber | March 14, 2012
Last week EyeforTravel held its inaugural Mobile conference alongside its fifth annual Social Media conference, with over 300 people in attendance, including myself. Read More
A tale of two Christmas videos - Cebu Pacific and HotelTonight
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A tale of two Christmas videos - Cebu Pacific and HotelTonight
By Kevin May | December 28, 2011
Buoyed by the success of seeing a previous web video showing its cabin crew doing an unusual safety presentation, Cebu Pacific was at it again before the Christmas holidays. Read More
HotelTonight raises $9M for international and mobile platform expansion
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HotelTonight raises $9M for international and mobile platform expansion
By Dennis Schaal | November 21, 2011
HotelTonight, the same-day, mobile hotel-booking service, picked up $9 million in a Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures. Read More
Revenue managers go mobile with HotelTonight extranet
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Revenue managers go mobile with HotelTonight extranet
By Dennis Schaal | November 14, 2011
HotelTonight, which has streamlined mobile hotel booking for consumers, has launched a mobile extranet for revenue managers. Read More
Five views from the travel startup coalface
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Five views from the travel startup coalface
By Viewpoints | August 18, 2011
Personalisation, simplicity, convenience, transparency, swiftness… new startups promise all this and more as they jointly strive to create a new era in the travel sector. Read More
Same-day hotel bookers in US and Brits overseas [INFOGRAPHICS]
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Same-day hotel bookers in US and Brits overseas [INFOGRAPHICS]
By Kevin May | August 17, 2011
Two travel web startups have delved into their data this week to produce a pair of infographics that illustrate the DNA of same-day bookers and the habits of Brits on holiday. Read More
HotelTonight app launches mobile merchandising tonight
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HotelTonight app launches mobile merchandising tonight
By Dennis Schaal | May 19, 2011
HotelTonight, the sleek iPhone app for same-day hotel bookings, began enabling hoteliers to merchandise to consumers within the app for extras available that evening. Read More
HotelTonight gets more than $3 million in funding
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HotelTonight gets more than $3 million in funding
By Dennis Schaal | May 12, 2011
HotelTonight, an iPhone app for same-day hotel bookings, will have plenty of days ahead of it, now that it has secured $3.25 million in a series A funding round led by Battery Ventures. Read More
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