Price trends on mobile for Google Hotel Ads Google’s price trends feature – which has existed on desktop and tablet for years – is now also available on mobile screens. This addition creates another resource for Google consumers to monitor pricing trends of hotels, now directly from their smartphones. Source: Hotel Marketing Price trends on mobile for Google Hotel Ads
Booking.com expanding beyond hotels Renowned for its hotel-only focus, Booking.com’s homepage now features tabs for flights from Kayak, car rentals from RentalCars.com, and restaurant reservations from OpenTable, all sister companies owned by parent company Priceline Group. Source: Hotel Marketing Booking.com expanding beyond hotels
Fake travel firms ‘duping Google into thinking they are genuine’ Bogus travel websites are reportedly duping Google into thinking they are genuine so they can target more than 5,000 British holidaymakers a year with phantom holidays. Source: Hotel Marketing Fake travel firms ‘duping Google into thinking they are genuine’
Flight Centre clients gain access to Airbnb for Business inventory The deal gives the Australia- and New Zealand-based company’s clients access to Airbnb for Business inventory, as well as Airbnb’s suite of travel manager tools and traveler dashboards. Source: Hotel Marketing Flight Centre clients gain access to Airbnb for Business inventory