Articles tagged “mobile”

Google has the ability to scale its hotel-booking service because of the already-existing integration of third-party hotel-technology partners such as Sabre, and due to Google's sheer reach.

Matching future travel dates with options that are price or value conscious is key to personalizing travelers' mobile experience.

Given Booking.com's digital prowess, its new service for hotels is likely to be an attractive one for a segment of the hotel market. But isn't it ironic that Booking.com is poised to get more involved in hotels' digital operations just when European regulators are trying to limit its influence?

Released April 2015: Welcome to the Europe installment of Skift’s annual State of Travel report, a series focusing on individual major global industry regions.

The demands of the increasingly smartphone- and tablet-equipped consumer are reshaping the way travel brands interact with travelers. Mobility and the ability for brand representatives to react in an anytime-anywhere…

In the era of uber-connectivity and seamless Internet browsing, we’ve become a culture of virtual window shoppers. This is especially true when it comes to online travel, where shopping cart…

The carousel is visually appealing, but clicking through to a mobile branded site for travel brands may still not be enough.

Airlines such as Delta and JetBlue are finding ways to offer free Wi-Fi products to their customers and that could become the norm as in-flight Wi-Fi becomes pervasive.

Zuckerberg and his team hope to further connect the dots between the activity on social, online, and real-life by holding the proverbial social-ROI carrot over marketers' heads.

Are hotels really confused about TripAdvisor Instant Booking? That's hard to believe when talking about major chains. Instead, perhaps hotels aren't eager to make the powerful TripAdvisor even more mighty.