MakeMyTrip co-founder and India CEO Rajesh Magow believes that its recent merger with Ibibo Group will create a business capable of dominating all aspects of the Indian online travel market.
This winter AccorHotels, Europe’s largest hotel group, will allow a first set of 200 independent hotels in North America to sell their rooms on AccorHotels.com in key cities across the U.S. and Canada.
Google has seen hotel-related searches increase by about 25%, when comparing July 2016 versus July 2015 data.It has refreshed its Hotel Ads website to let hotel managers filter by their preferred language and pricing model.
Expedia has signed Best Western Europe as the first global white label partner for its MeetingMarket technology.
Lufthansa continues to talk the talk around the impact of its year-old distribution cost charge (DCC), although concrete details about the impact on its bookings and bottom line remain elusive.
Simon Breakwell, who founded Expedia’s European operations, believed that within five years everything will have been turned on its head by voice search. Its impact on travel will be as big as mobile.
The hotel industry is fragmented, and so are the standards it uses to categorize its data. The industry would be better able to communicate with each other if its systems used common standards for data.
European metasearch giant Trivago filed its long awaited IPO in the U.S. today on 14th and will be listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol TRVG, using a holding company named Travel BV.