With the years most anticipated off-peak season looming on the horizon, hotels are hard at work thinking up ways to attract more guests this holiday season. Expedia Partner Services Group, the division created to give hotels a central point of contact for offering their properties on the companys portfolio of online travel sites including Expedia®, Hotels.com® and Hotwire®, today released tips for maintaining demand during even the most challenging periods.
Egencia®, an Expedia, Inc. company, today unveiled its 2012 Corporate Travel Forecast and Hotel Negotiability Index, finding that airline average ticket prices (ATPs) and hotel average daily rates (ADRs) for top corporate travel destinations will be slightly up overall in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
Expedia, Inc. announced today data showing growth in the number of online bookings to Brazil made on the more than 100 Expedia® and Hotels.com® travel sites worldwide.
With travel spend to the U.S. from international visitors on the rise, Expedia, Inc., the worlds largest online travel marketplace with over 100 Expedia® and Hotels.com® branded sites worldwide, released data today showing that international inbound bookings from specific super regions to key U.S. destination cities are up significantly over last year.
In the following article, Maher offers Expedias perspective on the need for greater dialogue about optimal channel mix in hotel marketing and distribution. She shares the companys interest in the forthcoming Hotel Distribution Channel Analysis, a report from the AH&LA and STR, and published by the HSMAI Foundation, scheduled to be released in September.