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By Jason Q. Freed, News Editor-Americas
25 February 2011
Major brands and CRS providers are working with Google to provide real-time rates and availability in attempts to increase direct bookings and practice rate parity.
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By The HNN editorial staff,
30 December 2011
Google’s Hotel Finder experiment went live in late July with mostly OTAs and CRS providers supplying rates and availability, as reported in the 25 February article “Hoteliers on board with new Google features.” Today, several major hotel chains appear in searches as well.
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By Jason Q. Freed, News Editor-Americas
30 December 2011
Google’s Hotel Finder experiment went live in late July with mostly OTAs and CRS providers supplying rates and availability, as reported in the 25 February article “Hoteliers on board with new Google features.” Today, several major hotel chains appear in searches as well.
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By The HNN editorial staff,
25 February 2011
From the desks of the HotelNewsNow.com editorial staff:
• Google CRS link goes online with hotels on board;
• US$478.5m Whitehall loan in imminent default;
• hotels lose ground to OTAs;
• Morgan Stanley to sell Chinese motel chain; and
• Hard Rock Hotel transferred to lenders.
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HNN Newswire
12 June 2012
The worldwide hotel booking site is going live today in 45 countries seeking to drive lowest prices by offering free reservation services for hotels.
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By Shawn A. Turner, Finance Editor
15 October 2012
The president of TripAdvisor for Business told Best Western conference attendees that the company goes to great lengths to ensure only honest reviews live on the site.
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By Jason Q. Freed, News Editor-Americas
24 August 2011
Hotel CRS provider Trust International considers Google’s pay-per-click products an alternative to OTAs and says client hotels already are using Google products to shift traffic to their own sites.
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By Jason Q. Freed, News Editor-Americas
04 March 2013
The ability to share guest data across a single platform is leading most of the large hotel brands to replace their PMS, CRS and CRM systems.
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By Christine Blank, HotelNewsNow.com contributor
01 April 2010
Google is testing a new technology that allows users of its Google Maps feature to see rates in real time.
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By Jason Q. Freed, News Editor-Americas
14 February 2011
The search-engine giant is taking steps that could have major implications on the hotel industry and the way rooms are marketed and distributed. Let’s take a closer look.
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