The role of Internet in the tourist industry grows every year. The number of resources that offer hotel booking and tour reservations exceeds the number of tourist agencies and hotel on the planet several times. The websites of tourist companies, travel agencies and tour operators become one of the most important tools in the recreation field.
Internet tourism industry is rapidly developing. In order to get abreast of the latest innovations in this field, many users try to track the latest news from the world of IT recreation.
In this section we provide the users of the portal <<City of Hotels>> with news from the leading tourist resources, popular internet-publications in the field of tourism, news about hotel booking systems and reports about various developments in the area of high technologies, related to hotels and tourism.
Opening of corporate websites, innovations in major hotel chains, news from tourist portals, travel guides, review services, forums and internet-shops selling last minute deals – these are only some of the topics, which will be covered in the section <<Hotels & Internet>> .
Among the leading resources, information about which you can find in our section <<Hotels & Internet>>, are: booking portal booking.com, travel leisure, Russian portals horse21.ru, travel.ru and others.
News about different conferences, summits and seminars related to the studying of interaction between IT and tourist industry will be also published in this section.
News in <<Hotels & Internet>> section will help the users of the word wide web to keep the track of events of the hotel sector of the Internet tourism. Meanwhile users are given the possibility to be newsmakers, too. If you have information about an interesting site in the tourist sector, or if you want the news of your website to appear on the portal <<City of Hotels>>, send you feedback to news@city-of-hotels.com. Our editorial staff will consider your proposal and will contact you as soon as possible.
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Ireland: hotel filed a lawsuit against Google
The fact is that, according to the owners of the Quinn hotel chain, since 14 March 2011 when typing in the search bar the name of the Ballymascanlon hotel Google along with such correct possible variants as "golf" and "wedding" also shown as possible request "Ballymascanlon receivership".
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One of the largest online booking portals in Germany - hotel.de - was bought by another major player in the online booking market of the country - HRS Hotel Reservation Service. In total HRS Hotel Reservation Service acquired 61.6% of hotel.de AG shares. The deal price is amounted at 43.1 million Euros.
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Facebook offers to run the hotel
Hotel Manager online is a service provided for its users by one of the largest social networks of the world, Facebook. The game, which is called «Hotel City», today is among the ten most popular online games. At the beginning of April 2010 the total numbe
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TripAdvisor will offer hotels to publish their addresses on a paid basis
Tripadvisor.com - one of the largest online hotel review resources - reported a fresh innovation. In the near future Ttripadvisor.com will offer a new feature for hotels, which will allow them to publish their contact details on the web site.
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Domain address .travel has activated the advertising campaign
Today a number of tourist offices and offices, including official representation of Tourism Canada, Montenegro, Slovakia, Argentina have already placed their web sites at the domain .travel.
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Orbitz.com announces the reduction in the cost of booking
Hotel reservation at one of the leading online-booking websites will become cheaper. Orbitz.com – one of the leaders of online-booking market of the United States and Great Britain - is preparing to announce a reduction in the cost of its services.
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Hotels.com launched 6 new language versions
One of the leaders of the world booking market in the Internet, hotels.com portal, announced the launch of 6 new language versions of hotel booking system for some countries in Eastern Europe.
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Booking.com opens 3 new offices
Booking.com – one of the largest operators in online hotel booking – opens its representative offices in Moscow, Sydney and Orlando.
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