In a recent interview with EyeForTravel, Sascha Hausmann, CEO of Busy Rooms, discussed hotel distribution developments in 2013, as well as trends to monitor in 2014. Here are some of the key points [...]

In December, we talked about the natural merger of the on-site hotel concierge and social media manager. Patrick Mayock of HotelNewsNow took this idea a bit further and examined whether social media [...]

Online travel agencies (OTAs) are a vital part of the supply chain in the travel industry. They are widely considered one of the main factors behind rapid growth in online travel bookings across both [...]

The rise of digital technology and marketing in the hospitality industry has created a new kind of traveler who is adept at all available online and mobile tools. They use these tools to jump across [...]

Have you heard of StubHub and EBay? These well-known sites provide a secondary marketplace for buyers and sellers of valuable products. What would happen if there were a secondary marketplace for [...]

Is social media a marketer’s dream, or a dreadful nightmare that just does not seem to go away? Is everybody using it, or are people just hopping on board right as the calendar changes to 2014? [...]

Picture this scene: You are traveling to see family during the holidays, and you decide to stay at a hotel for a few days. The building itself is beautiful, with a nicely decorated lobby filled with [...]

As companies begin to gear up for family-friendly summer in 2014, travel ads use children and parents to capture a large and profitable portion of the traveling public. Skift.com put together a list [...]

Kelly McGuire of the SAS Institute created a to-do list for analytic hospitality executives in 2014. This list includes higher-level items that will help to build a strong strategic analytic culture. [...]