mobile bookings
Mobile First: Brit Smartphone Hotel Bookings Overtake Desktop for the First Time
SHR | August 1, 2024
UK, 1 August 2024 – Brits are now making more hotel bookings on mobile devices than desktops for the first time, new research from SHR reveals1. The hotel technology specialist found that mobile bookings have overtaken desktop for UK staycations, with more than half of bookings (51.3%) made on a smartphone device over the last year – a 6.1% increase from the previous year. This shows how consumers are becoming far more comfortable booking travel on mobile devices, thanks in large part to the volume of information and seamless booking experience now available on all platforms. Desktop bookings have decreased by 3.8%, now ac...
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...
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...
