Hotelsukraine - online booking portal in Ukraine

26/02/2022

❗️Уночі чи під ранок російська армія може завдати чергові удари по Україні. Через це Генштаб збройних сил України звернувся до українців, зокрема до мешканців шести областей.

"Шановні співгромадяни - жителі Сумської, Чернігівської, Херсонської, Житомирської, Київської, Харківської областей! Вірогідно вночі рашисти будуть підтягувати свої війська з паливом і боєприпасами. Передавайте інформацію про пересування ворожої техніки українським військовим або керівництву своїх населених пунктів, районів, областей! Тільки разом переможемо!", - ідеться в заяві.

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30/04/2015

Are mobile hotel bookings not living up to the hype?

According to a new study, less than 10% of hotel reservations made in 2014 were done so using a hand held device. Further, while the majority of hotel reservations were made using laptops or desktops, more than 1 in 4 travelers still use traditional, …

30/04/2015

Booking.com enters corporate travel business

With millions of business travelers already using its websites to book hotels, Booking.com decided to finally seize the opportunity and has quietly launched Booking.com for Business, which is geared for small businesses without managed travel …

28/04/2015

Rate parity: The battle to determine how hotel rooms are bought

Rate parity is under challenge and most industry observers believe it will soon either loosen up or disappear entirely. And that, in turn, will have a big impact on how you shop for hotel accommodations. Currently, the center of the challenge is in …

27/04/2015

How Booking.com provides a compelling mobile user experience

Booking.com has built a brilliant, easy-to-use and yes, highly persuasive mobile experience, however with its heavy usage of merchandising messages they've forgotten the focus on customer experience.

24/04/2015

Booking.com rate parity settlement only a half-step forward

Online travel critics said that the ruling would do little to open the way for real competition in a market that has become dominated by Booking.com and Expedia. For hoteliers in the UK the settlement behind closed doors is wrong as it still allows …

23/04/2015

Booking.com officially launches BookingSuite, creates free websites for small hotels

Booking.com is taking a novel approach to capturing new business from small hotel owners: it is building websites for them at no charge. The new service, called BookingSuite, will create a new website with no upfront costs. In exchange, the hotel …

22/04/2015

Booking.com to abandon rate parity in Europe

Today Booking.com announced its support of recent decisions by the National Competition Authorities in France, Italy and Sweden to accept amendments to Booking.com's parity commitments in respect of hotels located in those countries.

21/04/2015

Brian Solis on the future of hotel marketing

While touring Europe to promote his new book "What’s the Future of Business," digital marketing guru Brian Solis was interviewed by WIHP's Martin Soler about the future of travel, hospitality and hotel marketing, and why hotels need to integrate new …

21/04/2015

The smart hotelier’s action plan to digital content marketing

The big question is, if Digital Content Marketing has been around since the mid-1990s, why is there so much attention on this marketing format lately? A big reason is the emergence of this multi-device, multi-touch world we now live in and the …

20/04/2015

Accor taking over Fastbooking

Fastbooking will continue to deliver innovative solutions designed to improve the performance and visibility of its clients, while operating independently within Accor. At the same time, the expertise of Fastbooking's teams will broaden the range of …

17/04/2015

Why guests abandon the online booking process

Some of the reasons are related to user experience and technical issues. Other factors are out of a hotelier’s control, but there are certain things hoteliers could do to recapture the interest of those guests, mitigating the abandonment of online …

17/04/2015

Expedia’s app update speeds access to last-minute travel

Expedia’s latest update to its mobile application focuses on better meeting the needs of last-minute travelers – an important and growing group on mobile – by enabling them to book a car rental and find a nearby hotel deal for that day on the launch …

16/04/2015

Four takes on the future of hotel branding

The future might be uncertain, but this much is clear: Brands need not double as distribution platforms. The power of the brands now comes from loyalty programs that keep brands top of mind in the initial booking phase.

15/04/2015

More millennials traveling with family

New research suggests the generational cohort, which thus far has been characterized as individuals seeking unique experiences on their own terms, is even more interested in traveling with family members than preceding generations.

15/04/2015

HotelTonight adds rate tracking

With HotelTonight’s new rate tracking feature, travelers can now follow hotel price changes in their destination of choice. The service also informs the user about new hotel inventory made available for their travel dates.

14/04/2015

Travelport adds HRS hotel content

The new agreement will add up to 70,000 hotels from HRS’ properties, the majority of which are independent hotels, to Travelport’s Travel Commerce Platform. The HRS inventory will be fully integrated later in the year into the agent’s normal …

13/04/2015

Whitepaper: Hospitality Digital Technology & Marketing Strategy Q2 2015

A new whitepaper from HeBS Digital covers newsworthy hospitality digital technology and marketing moments in Q1, trends to pay attention to in Q2, and the latest digital marketing best practices supported with real-world data examples.

10/04/2015

Can smaller OTAs in Europe survive?

With the global giants Priceline and Expedia strengthening their positions through acquisitions and continued organic growth, the battle for OTA dominance in some markets increasingly looks like a two-horse race, according to PhoCusWright.

09/04/2015

How United Airlines aims to fly past rivals on mobile

United Airlines’ relentless focus on satisfying customers on mobile has positioned it to leverage data to stand out in an industry struggling to catch up with the hotel sector and traditional retailers after years of severe cost-cutting.

08/04/2015

Metamediaries forcing hotels to adapt

Travel-specific search has quickly become one of the most prominent areas of contention for new intermediaries. While OTAs continue to develop into a travel search engine, new companies are finding ground- breaking methods of adding further value …

07/04/2015

Facebook Messenger and the hotel booking experience

While booking a hotel room online is simple and straight forward today, making changes to the same booking is not. Here are some thoughts on how the integration of Facebook Messenger into the booking process could improve the experience and create …

06/04/2015

How hotels can challenge Airbnb for millennials’ hearts

Hotels are trying to appeal to the under-35 set, but they're going at it in the wrong way. It's not enough to simply throw technology at millennials' travel problems. Offering today's technology simply meets today's standards. For hotels to really …

03/04/2015

Germany rejects Booking.com proposal on hotel rate practices

German antitrust regulators gave a stiff warning to Priceline Group’s Booking.com, saying they are likely to ban the online reservation site’s best-price deals with hotels. The cartel office said Booking.com's proposal to settle the case was …

03/04/2015

New IHG program rewards B2B hotel bookings

Devised for bookers - members who book accommodation, meetings and events for others - IHG Business Rewards will reward members with IHG Rewards Club points for their B2B business, in a single global program.

03/04/2015

Ctrip positioned to become the Priceline of China

While Priceline drives 97% of its revenue from hotel bookings, Ctrip's hotel bookings today account for just 44% of its overall revenue. But the company is about to change that with major investments to expand its hotel content - including a …

02/04/2015

Wyndham Hotel Group to migrate central reservations to Sabre platform

At its Global Conference in Las Vegas, Wyndham Hotel Group announced to thousands of franchisees that the company has entered into a global CRS services agreement to migrate its central reservations systems to Sabre Corporation’s industry-leading …

01/04/2015

Airbnb a category creator rather than a disrupter

Airbnb recently revealed that 76% of Airbnb listings are outside the main hotel districts in cities, and there are different-use cases for why people book with Airbnb. Apparantly, the company is in direct conversations with the six largest hotel …

31/03/2015

Reinventing loyalty programs for the digital age

While retailers continue to invest heavily in loyalty, many are failing to successfully engage digital customers, with only 24 percent of loyalty programs allowing redemption through mobile, according to a new report from Capgemini.

30/03/2015

Sharing economy on the brink of disrupting business travel

The foundations of the business-travel ecosystem are under more strain than ever before. U.S. companies are projected to spend $310 billion on business travel in 2015 (up 6.2 percent from last year), but how they spend that money has become a source …

27/03/2015

TripAdvisor key for hotel and airline success on mobile

According to the recent report, TripAdvisor users are on average 3x more likely to own an airline, hotel or OTA app than those without TripAdvisor installed. As travel apps continue to grow their installed base, TripAdvisor could be the travel …

26/03/2015

The social path to purchase in travel

Travel brands are realizing that today’s connected vacationers no longer have purely transactional relationships with them. Instead, brands need to develop ongoing engagement across multiple digital channels that are punctuated with real-world …

25/03/2015

UBS analyst on how TripAdvisor Instant Booking will impact competitors

For the first year, UBS expects TripAdvisor’s “effective cost per click” from the Instant Booking model to be about 14% lower than last year. However, the company should enjoy improvements in conversion rates as it attracts partners of higher quality …

24/03/2015

Cornell study finds hotel guests participate in and support environmental sustainability efforts

Guests essentially expect to find sustainable practices in a hotel, and a reasonably large percentage of guests are willing to participate in those programs, a new Cornell study finds. Even more guests will join in when hotels offer incentives, such …