Articles tagged “hilton”

Hilton's CEO's statements that the chain achieved three key goals in negotiations with major online travel agencies show that the parties' standard ways of doing business are evolving. If Nassetta's statements are to be believed, then Hilton won some tools for improving its economic position and winning back some direct traffic.

2016 is going to be a good year if you have hotel elite status.

The latest revenue numbers from Airbnb explain why Expedia is acquiring HomeAway, the Priceline Group is touting its 21 million bookable rooms, and Wall Street analysts are questioning hotel-chain CEOs on the prospect of selling hotel rooms through Airbnb.

With record occupancy levels, Hilton Worldwide believes it is in a position to address what it views as unacceptable cancellation levels even after instituting a a more stringent policy at the beginning of the year.

As this TripAdvisor-Priceline Group partnership takes off, observe it closely because it signals a new stage in earnest in travel bookings -- the real emergence of third-party sites such as TripAdvisor and perhaps Google at some juncture that were primarily media sites as real forces in travel transactions.

The tourism industry is starting to bounce back after Covid; for the big hotel brands, growth is on the agenda.

Hotels like that online travel agencies sell their rooms, but they'd much rather sell the rooms themselves -- especially as consolidation has given giants like Expedia more power over negotiating prices.

Airbnb: potential distribution partner or industry threat? Some hotel companies and booking sites say neither, while others are keeping a watchful eye on both the positive and negative effects Airbnb may create.

No one has been pushing for hotel groups to develop better meetings industry content than Skift. While Connect+ is an impressive move by Hilton in that regard, there's a lot of opportunity here for more authentic content and intuitive content delivery.

Marriott guests didn't take the chain's Wi-Fi-blocking practice sitting down and fought back, with Marriott International ultimately getting fined $600,000. What makes Hilton Worldwide think it can evade the same fate?