This was a fortunate year for us at Tnooz – with steadily surging traffic and more events than ever before.
As we wish our readers a Happy New Year, we also thank you for making it happen, whether it’s by sharing our stories with friends and colleagues, commenting on our articles, or taking part in the webinars and THacks.
Your top 20 most popular articles on Tnooz during 2015 were, in reverse order...
20. The fight for hotel bookings – direct vs online travel agencies
19. As rate parity falters, what OTAs and hotels may do next
18. Why people abandon a travel booking online
17. Not happy campers: Agoda pulls all inventory from Trivago
16. TripAdvisor and Google make the top three hotel search results even more precious
15. Expedia to buy Orbitz in cash deal worth $1.6 billion
14. Expedia buys Travelocity for $280 million
13. No, Amazon isn’t launching a travel site, but it did this instead
12. Booking.com tells hotels it’s not a zero-sum game
11. What path will lonely Orbitz take next?
10. Booking.com fires legal threat at rate widgets, demands hotels switch off
9. Silently debuting homestays, Booking.com jabs Airbnb
8. Priceline acquires PriceMatch, adds revenue management to hotel tech arsenal
7. Surprise! Airbnb comes in dead last as Millennials’ preferred accommodation
6. Three things Expedia has learned from analyzing airfare data
5. Lufthansa to add surcharge to every booking made via the GDS
4. Lufthansa takes GDS booking tumble with new surcharge, rival carriers benefit
3. For hotels, Google expands direct commission-based bookings
2. Google quietly adds instant booking for hotels, copying TripAdvisor
1. Oyo Rooms’s 21-year-old CEO raises $25M for budget hotel platform
Ritesh Agarwal is the 21-year-old founder of hotel listings startup Oyo Rooms in New Delhi. He raised $25 million from San Francisco-based Greenoaks Capital and existing investors Sequoia, DSG Consumer Partners, and LightSpeed Ventures. Becoming a 100-employee company with a $100 million valuation took time. But not much time. This is his remarkable story.
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4. Are consumer-facing travel startups on a road to nowhere?
3. Peek’s review system to be investigated by TripAdvisor
2. The reality of distribution in tours and activities
1. Booking.com fires legal threat at rate widgets, demands hotels switch off
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