A study found that smartphone bookings are rising around the world, and hotels remain the subsector in which smartphone bookings are most common, generating one in five online bookings in Q2 2016.
Expedia has been rolling out a tool that lets hoteliers selectively add spiffs, such as free parking or free wifi, as an additional lever to convert customers.
According to a recently released Phocuswright White Paper, just under three quarters of Australian hotel shoppers booked their travel online via OTAs, compared with just 21% who went direct to the hotel.
Tourism Australia statistics released on October 15 showed that there was a decline in Chinese tourists visiting island-state Tasmania of 14% from 2015 to 2016.
Cathay Pacific’s results in the second half of the year “is no longer expected” to be better than that of the first half. In August, the airline reported an 82 percent slump in net income in the first six months of the year and warned that premium travel was declining.
China is projected to become the world’s most important cruise market with 10 million cruise passengers in 2030 in the “2016 China Cruise Industry Development Report”.
Marriott Hotels has established its Charlotte city-centre property as a live testing ground for new products and services.
Guangdong-based Nanhu International Travel Agency (NITA) registered 580.14% YoY growth of revenue to RMB 843 million, according to the agency’s half-year financial results published on Oct. 11.