Both parties will invest RMB3 billion in the Koubei platform that will leverage Alibaba’s gourmet platform and Ant Financial’s offline operations and management.
The French National Assembly moved to cancel rate parity clauses in contracts between hotels and online travel agencies (OTAs). Violators will be fined up to Euro 150,000.
B2B ticket sales service Piao Guanjia announced it received RMB30 million of Pre-A round investment from three independent investors.
Micromax Informatics Limited said it has made a strategic investment in ixigo, a mobile travel search & marketplace, as the handset maker tries to create a connected mobile services ecosystem for its devices.
When marketers or brands leverage city-specific targeting, it generally offers 30 percent better return on investment than a general message does.
In the next few months, TripAdvisor users will be able to reserve rooms at any of Marriott’s 4,200 hotels worldwide by clicking on buttons scattered among its hotel metasearch results.
We flew into San Francisco International Airport for our third instance of travel hacking this past weekend, arriving to a sold out crowd of eager travelers ready to craft ideas into products.
Should travel advertisers bid on their brand search terms across pay-per-click (PPC) ads? Bing Ads has done some research suggesting the answer is yes, in many cases.