Global Hotel Exchange Adds 1,000 Extra Hotels, Takes California by Storm
The online travel agency postponed its official launch due to high sing up demand
Global Hotel Exchange, an online travel agency launching their very own business model for the hotel and accommodation industry, has recently signed over 1,000 new hotels through the California Lodging Industry Association and Independent Lodging Industry Association. The high demand for new hotels to be added to Global Hotels Exchange has forced the company to postpone the official launch, initially announced for last month, and push it to March 2012. Read more…
One third of global travel to be booked online by 2013
A third of all global travel will be booked online by 2013, shows a recent research report released by PhoCusWright, pointing out that some regions of the world have already surpassed this milestone. Online bookings for leisure and business travelers is most prevalent in the USA and in Europe, the two regions generating about three quarters of all online travel sales.
By next year, PhoCusWright forecasts online travel booking will also grow substantially in regions such as Asia Pacific and Latin America, diminishing the share of online sales held by US and Europe to about 73%. As the volume of online bookings from other regions continues to increase, this percentage will keep dropping. Another effect of the increased interest of tourists for online holiday or business trip booking, there will be additional boost to the already existing competition between websites offering travel services. Read more…
Travel Tweaks + Booking.com = Love
All my friends know I’m a Booking.com fan! I preach about it quite a lot. And although I put my love affair to test every chance I get by comparing destinations and prices, Booking.com is always my number one. I’ve booked hotels in Istanbul, Trier, Oludeniz, and the Golden Sands through them and they never disappointed me. So I decided I could whole heartedly recommend them.
That is why, soon after starting my very own travel blog, I also applied for their affiliate program and got in! So you’ll see a whole lot of them in my links and banners. But no matter how big of a fan I am, I promise to keep checking up on them and make sure you get access to the best offers out there.
And to prove I’m not kidding about being their hard core fan, here’s a photo I just had to take last summer in Amsterdam featuring my visit to…their headquarters (or one of he buildings they have offices in). I never went in. Will do so next time.
In case you were wondering, all the reviews I write are for hotels I’ve been to and I’d like to keep it that way. Writing about hotels one has never set foot into seems a little weird to me.
- Keep mixing the travel spell recipes!
- Love,
- The Travel Wizard
