Once we have analysed what instant booking is and how it compares to Business Listings and TripConnect CPC, we move on to analysing the many questions that this new product comes with. Will it be available in all markets? For now, instant booking is available only for users in the United States, Canada and United…
TripAdvisor continues to grow and, whether we like it or not, is going to become an important figure in the hotel industry. It was created as a hotel review site and it has become the number one site in that field. It grew by adding price comparison, competing with Trivago and Kayak. Now, it has…
Cheap? Expensive? Are you sure that you are measuring each action you carry out precisely? Grab your calculator and read this. Calculating the costs of each channel and of each optional proposal with which you are continuously tempted with is essential to understand its profitability, comparing and making well-founded commercial decisions. The analysis that we…
Among all new terms presented in Web analytics, there is one that nowadays we have introduced into our slang: Conversion rate. It is one of the principal rates of success in this field, so it is easy to assume that appears as a standard concept that doesn’t allow any kind of subjective interpretation… But be…
By Pablo Delgado and César López In Continental Europe, hotels with registered trademarks can prevent intermediaries from using their brand names in Google Adwords. Doing this means that more users end up on their own websites. In spite of the advantages, most independent hotels don’t take the necessary steps to benefit from it. Did you…
Adwords is popular in travel industry and intermediaries like Expedia invest nearly $6 million monthly (source: Adage) in Google Adwords campaigns – inverting the money they get from partners. Pay Per Click sponsored results bring more and more attention of indivual hotels as well but many questions and doubts arise: Will Adwords bring more reservations?…
Google launched a new service that may change the way we use Google for search. Since 8th September, results in a search engine (www.google.es) are shown instantly during typing, there is no need of pressing [enter]. Google suggests 4 most popular searches that refer to written phrase showing complete results (including maps, sponsored links) for…
In the same way that NOT everybody speaks the same language, NOT all Internet users use the browser. Many hotels have websites that only speak one language: Internet Explorer, the language of most like English, but it’s just one language at the end of the day. There are other languages, the same way there are…
