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Max Rayner
May 9, 2013
In a “man bites dog” tech story on Monday April 29th, Forbes.com featured a post by its regular contributor, Gene Marks, who reported a counter-intuitive trend. All of his clients who recently compared costs of server upgrades versus going to the cloud had decided to go with server upgrades. Gene could barely contain his [...]
Author:
Max Rayner
November 21, 2012
It’s not just Panda, Penguin and the other charmingly named Google search releases that have stuck the knife in… It’s Google Travel’s helpful presentation of relevant information that’s killing your SEO and SEM arbitrage. For a great many years, travel suppliers have fought for browser “shelf space” in two ways above all: paying Google [...]
Tripadvisor launched a new online hotel booking site today: Tingo.com. Dont look for it (yet) on the Tripadvisor site however – not even as a search comparison option. Tingo takes a little bit from Expedia (hotel inventory), a little bit from Orbitz (Price Assurance) and combines them into what is pitched as a new offering [...]
This morning, we saw a FB posting from a good friend about a new website, Guestmob.com. Guestmob claims to offer prices “20-50%” lower than Kayak by pitting hotels “against each other for the right to fill empty hotel rooms” Consumers enter the site and pick a destination and dates par usual, and then offered a [...]
Roomkey.com, a new hotel metasearch site created by six of the largest hotel chains, launched recently. With industry vet John Davis at the helm and backing from Choice, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott and Wyndham, it somewhat resembles the industry’s efforts to drive down costs and create consumer choice several years ago when a similar group created Travelweb.com [...]
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