hotels

Finding The Balance Between The Hotel And Homeshare Experience
Finding The Balance Between The Hotel And Homeshare Experience
August 21, 2019  |  Retail

Finding a home away from home while traveling is not an area where consumer lack options as of 2019 – but some travelers are still...

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The Hacker Hiding In The Hotel Room 
The Hacker Hiding In The Hotel Room 
August 21, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

In an era when data breaches have become almost a dime a dozen and it seems nearly everyone has been breached — it takes something...

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OYO To Take On Airbnb With Vacation Rental Venture
OYO To Take On Airbnb With Vacation Rental Venture
August 14, 2019  |  Investments

India-based hotel and booking site OYO – which is the fastest-growing hotel chain in the world, according to the company – said it will invest...

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Recreating The Hotel As A Social Hive 
Recreating The Hotel As A Social Hive 
August 01, 2019  |  Retail

Microtels (a portmanteau of micro and hotel) are trendy today, but are not exactly a new concept. In many locations outside the U.S. small hotel...

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Founder’s Shares Purchase Sends India’s OYO’s Valuation To $10B
Founder’s Shares Purchase Sends India’s OYO’s Valuation To $10B
July 21, 2019  |  Investments

Indian hospitality business OYO now has a valuation of $10 billion after its founder, Ritesh Agarwal, purchased $2 billion in shares from Sequoia Capital and...

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Can A Sunblock Spraydown Stimulate Poolside Spend?
Can A Sunblock Spraydown Stimulate Poolside Spend?
July 04, 2019  |  Retail

No one in the history of mankind has ever enjoyed a sunburn — they’re hot and uncomfortable, they make one’s skin feel two or three...

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OTAs Tap Into Resort Fees To Create New Revenue Streams
OTAs Tap Into Resort Fees To Create New Revenue Streams
June 27, 2019  |  Retail

A little over a month ago, Booking.com sent ripples of surprise throughout the travel vertical with the announcement that it would begin collection commissions on...

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Hotels, And India’s Middle Class, Show Path For Online Travel
Hotels, And India’s Middle Class, Show Path For Online Travel
June 25, 2019  |  Markets

It’s a fool’s errand to predict what will interest historians decades or centuries from now, but the scribes here at PYMNTS don’t pull back from...

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Hopper Now Offering Direct Hotel Booking
Hopper Now Offering Direct Hotel Booking
June 21, 2019  |  Mobile Applications

Hopper has announced that more than 270,000 hotels in over 200 countries and territories across 1,600 major cities are now available to book directly through...

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