The death of Priceline’s name your own price bidding Priceline.com ended its Name Your Own Price bidding service for car rentals Monday, as it did for flights in 2016. While Booking Holdings is still making considerable money from Priceline.com’s bidding service for hotels, the service has outlived its usefulness. Source: Hotel Marketing The death of Priceline’s name your own price bidding
Booking.com’s CMO on tech innovation and bringing data skills in-house Booking.com has brought its data function in-house as it looks to improve “speed and context” and better understand how to measure success online. Source: Hotel Marketing Booking.com’s CMO on tech innovation and bringing data skills in-house
Are your forms ready for GDPR? Benchmark yourself here Reworking your acquisition plan, beginning with your subscribe forms, will help you do a better job of connecting with customers and launching email conversations that lead to a stronger email program. Source: Hotel Marketing Are your forms ready for GDPR? Benchmark yourself here
Hilton follows Marriott on group commission cuts Hilton will cut the commissions it pays to third-party group and meetings planners at hotels in the U.S. and Canada from 10 percent to 7 percent effective Oct. 1. Source: Hotel Marketing Hilton follows Marriott on group commission cuts