Survey: Majority of Travelers Check Online Reviews Before Booking
CHICAGO—More than three quarters of travelers use review sites such as Yelp and TripAdvisor to conduct research prior to booking services, according to a...
Hotels—Not OTAs—Own the Data That Makes the Difference
Online travel agencies (OTAs) have built incredibly successful, valuable businesses, and their websites largely define what consumers now expect from the modern booking experience....
SiteMinder: Hotel Websites Rank Among the Top Three Booking Channels
SiteMinder has revealed the 15 booking channels that generated the greatest revenue for U.S. and Canada hotels in key tourism destinations in 2017. The...
Choice Creates New Global Reservation System—choiceEDGE
ROCKVILLE, Md.—Choice Hotels International announced that the company will transition to choiceEDGE, the first new global reservation system (GRS) from a hotel company in...
Fornova Highlights Three Trends in Hotel Distribution for 2018
Dori Stein, CEO of hotel distribution technology company Fornova, anticipates a year of even faster growth in 2018, and pointed to three trends in...