Harris Interactive reported last year that almost 70% of consumers booking hotel rooms through the Expedia mobile app were looking to travel within 24 hours.... Read More

Using voluntary customer surveys as benchmarks, UK-based marketing agency BluSky Marketing has identified previous patronage and word-of-mouth recommendations as key drivers for business to these luxury hotels.... Read More

Kickstarter has quickly become the go-to high-impact mashup of crowdsourcing sensibility and entrepreneurial endeavor.... Read More

I won't pretend to be a diehard CouchSurfing community member. I've never hosted or surfed, only attended meetups in Barcelona and Chiang Mai.... Read More

Expedia may have retained its lead at the top of the leading travel sites in New Zealand, but Wotif has long its second spot to Webjet.... Read More

Many agency marketers had this same conversation with representatives from big companies, from B2B industrial distributors to several consumer-facing companies like restaurants and retailers.... Read More

International SIM cards can be bought in Travelport's Galileo... Read More

In a recent survey of mostly B2B sales reps and executives, approximately 22% claimed they didn’t use social media to close deals.... Read More

Okay, dreamers - you have decided to go ahead and launch a travel business. In fact, you're going to open a fancy new hotel!... Read More

Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Asia.... Read More

Lest we forget, among other things, Apple's iPhone introduced a completely touchscreen-centered interaction to a individual’s most private and personal device.... Read More

RunUp Labs, the first travel-specific accelerator program to demo a full class of graduates, focuses specifically on the challenges and opportunities in the travel industry... Read More

In the endless battle for advertising dollars in search, Google has been rolling out new products that encourage more engagement with paid links over organic results. The most recent is Google Ad Extensions, with images and maps.... Read More

For the first time, there's ample empirical evidence that Google may actually be cannibalizing its PPC revenues in the travel vertical after entering the market with competing products.... Read More

A communications manager in Sydney for one of the world's largest hotel chains has confirmed to Tnooz that he wrote at least 105 reviews anonymously on TripAdvisor, in an apparent breach of the site's rules.... Read More