Articles tagged “apps”

Why didn't someone think of this before? (Perhaps someone did.) It isn't the end-all, be-all in travel search, but it is a step ahead in ease of use.

Skyscanner is going against the grain in now supporting a hotel-search app separate from its flight-search app. Consider this an opening shot for Skyscanner in hotels, and one that will help the company collect enough data about plotting its next move.

There's a market opportunity in meetings and events -- a $500 billion one, according to DoubleDutch. Conferences need apps and data, and that's where DoubleDutch enters the arena.

Identifying a specific customer set is one of the first steps to a successful startup and one that most on this list have mastered.

Video is powerful, and now users of Yelp's iPhone app have some additional user-generated ammunition. Nice move by Yelp.

We wonder where they're keeping the people who've been running Ryanair all these years.

Groupon's launch of tonight-only hotel deals in its mobile apps isn't exactly the "shot heard 'round the world," but Groupon has the audience and scale to do some damage.

Bridging the gap between B2B and B2C is important for startups who want to build a brand while attracting enough customers to make money and build a viable business.

For hotels that don't have the resources to develop their own apps, the Alice hotel app and concierge service, and others like it, could be a useful solution for making concierge services more mobile-oriented.

Every travel brand engaged in mobile -- and that should be all of them -- should read about Booking.com's big-picture vision for mobile. Hipmunk and Expedia are also going down this road, albeit to a lesser degree.