mobile bookings
Hotels See Increases in Mobile Revenue After Launching with Travel Tripper’s New Mobile Booking Engine
Travel Tripper | November 8, 2016
NEW YORK—Hotels partnering with Travel Tripper, an industry leader in innovative hotel booking and digital marketing solutions, have seen promising early increases in mobile booking revenue shortly after launching with the new RezTrip mobile booking engine. The Taj Boston, The Manhattan at Times Square Hotel, Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas, and Grand Beach Hotel Surfside West in Miami are among the first hotels to utilize this new solution. The newly redesigned mobile booking platform incorporates industry best practices in travel booking, focusing strongly on user experience to secure hotel reservations quick...
Button Selected by Hotels.com as Their Platform of Choice for Driving App Installs and Bookings in Mobile
Button | August 18, 2016
Button's platform offers both highest conversion rates and highest converting traffic on mobile; Now any partner brand can offer Hotels.com properties to their customers within their mobile experiences New York – August 19, 2016 – Button has been selected by Hotels.com(R) as their preferred platform for mobile partnerships, as Button's Marketplace is an effective and scalable way for driving transactions originating from 3rd parties. They become the first online travel agent (OTA) or hotel-booking provider to pursue app installs and in-app transactions, at scale, to power their partnerships and proven affiliate marketing cha...
Book. Stay. Go. Launches SaaS-Enabled Hotel Marketplace, Featuring Mobile Check-in and Mobile Room Keys
Book. Stay. Go. | May 13, 2016
Book. Stay. Go. launches with over 60 luxury & lifestyle hotels in six U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Miami, New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles SAN FRANCISCO – May 13, 2016 – Book. Stay. Go., a leading mobile hotel solution for business, mobile, and millennial travelers, today announced the launch of the hotel industry's first SaaS-enabled marketplace, featuring mobile check-in and mobile room keys -- with 8M+ room nights of inventory in six U.S. cities and a slew of features to make booking and staying at a hotel a stress-free and seamless experience. Book. Stay. Go. allows travelers to book a hot...
Unique Travel Startups and Services That Can Help Optimize Revenue and e-Commerce Strategies
Amanda Bryant of TNJ Management | April 9, 2015
by Amanda Bryant It's no secret that third party services and new intermediaries are popping up faster than we can keep track of, however as revenue and e-commerce managers we should constantly be evaluating new services as opportunities to not only improve RGI, but optimize channel mix by improving ADR and reducing guest acquisition and distribution costs. Let's admit the fact that intermediaries have scale, which individual hotels and small portfolios will never achieve, especially when we try to affordably compete in SEO and SEM. While we wish the marketing fees paid to our franchisors are the only investment we need to make in filli...
Menin Hospitality Selects RoomKey as Preferred Mobile Travel Agent
Ve-Go Technologies, Inc. | August 26, 2014
Menin Hospitality brings mobile check-in, room selection, and smartphone door entry to South Beach – at Gale South Beach & Bentley South Beach. Miami, FL August 27, 2014 - Menin Hospitality selects Ve-Go Technologies, Inc. as preferred mobile travel agent (MTA) at Gale South Beach and Bentley South Beach. RoomKey allows guests to not only book a room, but also select their own room, check-in, and control their entire stay from their mobile device. Since January, guests of Gale South Beach have been able to check-in and select their own room with a few taps with their smartphone. With property management system (PMS) integration, V...
Mid-Year Review: The Rising Tide of Mobile Bookings – How Hoteliers Can Stay Afloat By Max Starkov
HeBS Digital | July 29, 2014
By Max Starkov In the first half of 2014, the massive shift from desktop to mobile and tablet devices continues its rigorous pace and now over 42% of web visitors and nearly 38% of page views were generated from non-desktop devices (mobile and tablet), while nearly 16% of bookings and 19% of room nights came from tablets and mobile devices. The explosion of non-desktop customer engagements presents a major challenge to hotel marketers: creating and managing a digital presence across three distinct distribution and marketing channels (desktop, mobile, and tablet). No doubt, hoteliers must invest in and take advantage this multi-channel, ...
Mobile Bookings Surge in 2013
Pegasus Solutions | February 3, 2014
Reservations Booked via Mobile Devices Using the OpenView Internet Booking Engine Surpass 2013 Levels, as Presented by PhoCusWright at FITUR DALLAS (February 3, 2014) – Mobile and tablet bookings for Pegasus client hotels made using the OpenView Internet booking engine amounted to more than 15% of all reservations in 2013. Clients of Pegasus Solutions' web services division enjoyed a boost from the channel, surpassing the industry-wide 11% for the year, as presented by PhoCusWright at FITUR in Madrid. "A year ago, we suggested hotels were responsible for the prevalence or lack of mobile bookings for their hotels," said David Millili, ...
Mobile Bookers are Impulsive and Short-Term Travelers with 74% Being for Same Day Check In
Hotels.com | October 25, 2013
DALLAS, Oct., 2013 - Mobile devices have truly become an integral part of the travel experience. Since 2011, Hotels.com® has had over 20 million downloads of its mobile hotel booking app, proving that millions of people are adapting to the mobile way of life, especially when it comes to booking a hotel room on-the-go. "Through the growth of our mobile booking app, we see that using mobile devices has become a seamless part of the travel planning and booking process," said Taylor L. Cole, APR, travel expert for Hotels.com. "People are utilizing a variety of mobile resources on a number of devices to help them do everything from planning...
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