TRENDS AND RESEARCH Hotel Prices Dropping Nationwide: It is April 2009 and Hotwire.com’s monthly Hotwire® Hotel Rate Report shows us that Tampa leads major U.S. cities in hotel priced reductions and that New York City hotels studied in the report had prices drop 29 percent. The complete list follows. Top 10 hotel Price Reduction Markets [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 23, 2009
10 Hottest Travel Trends in Online Travel (from Europe)
A reporter from the London Times Online attended this week’s Travolution Summit in London and took away what she calls “10 hottest trends in online travel.” Not surprisingly price is one of them: travelers search Google for ‘cheap hotels’ most often, then ‘beach hotels’ and ‘luxury hotels’.
Among the takeaways:
· Flights come first: on average vacationers [...]
April 16, 2009
What are the Top 10 Technology Trends for 2009?
These ten technology trends will reshape the way consumers search shop and buy travel.” Carefully selected by PhoCusWright experts from a plethora of global business and technology initiatives, each trend is weighed for its business value and potential to change the face of travel. PhoCusWright’s 2009 Technology Trends
1. Despite Market Woes, Pockets of Investment Still [...]
April 8, 2009
While Everyone May Be Twittering…Does Anyone Give A Rat’s A_ _?
The biggest uses of Twitter right now are:
- Businesses following what is being said about them or their industry—Zappos, JetBlue, Comcast, etc.
- Celebrity updates—Lance Armstrong Tweets about his collarbone.
- Real-time updates of news events, especially natural disasters.
- Niche topics, like #MSU or #UNC during March Madness.
- Individuals/companies promoting themselves.
And it’s the last point that may [...]
