Hospitality Expos - Expedia Hotel News

Expedia and Google execs say that hotel images - especially great ones - prompt consumers to go from shoppers to buyers.

Expedia.com announced a thorough overhaul of its hotel reviews feature, incorporating new improvements that will make its collection of verified hotel reviews more accessible and relevant to prospective travelers.

Expedia.com released the results of a study of American attitudes in today's economy as they relate to domestic travel, international travel, hotel selection criteria and social media.

Expedia hopes to bust into the hotel review space dominated by giant TripAdvisor by emphasizing verified reviews.

Picture it: you're on vacation, taking a well-deserved rest. But be honest: do you still see your smartphone or laptop in the picture, close at hand?

With the year’s 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 company’s 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 world’s 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 Expedia’s perspective on the need for greater dialogue about optimal channel mix in hotel marketing and distribution. She shares the company’s 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.