With the holiday season right around the corner, now is the time to start planning for holiday bookings, if you haven’t already. To navigate this complicated holiday season, marketers will need a thorough understanding of how the pandemic will impact travel. To this end, we took a look at Koddi’s proprietary travel data and cross-referenced it with publishers’ data to...
The mobile-only world is fast approaching in the travel industry. In terms of mobile booking rates for hotels, Asia is far ahead of the rest of the world, and China is leading the pack with 60% of its online bookings made on a smartphone. North America and Europe stand at just 28% and 33%, respectively. One of the reasons for...
With over 4,300 hotels in 100 different countries, AccorHotels recognizes the importance of customizing its travel marketing strategies based on microtrends within different geographies. However, this kind of approach to travel marketing requires technology that can analyze and act upon huge amounts of data. Additionally, that same technology needs to be able to automate thousands of processes to utilize the...
As the most populous region for centuries, Asia-Pacific (APAC) is now one of the largest markets in every sense. Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population resides here, and their demand for travel increases steadily every year. Due to improvements in residents’ lifestyles and internet service investment, in 2018, digital ad spend across the whole region surged massively to $210.43 billion,...
Our metasearch partners have been devoting an increasing amount of effort to improving and testing new user experiences. Lately, we noticed a new auction experience on Trivago across several browsers. While this test seems to be available only in a handful of countries, it could mean changes are coming to other Trivago users soon. Below is the Trivago auction experience...
As a Taiwanese immigrant now residing in the US, I personally get into the “holiday spirit” during this time of the year. If you’ve heard that 2018 is the “Year of the Dog,” you may already know that another side of the globe is currently celebrating Chinese New Year, which is also called “春节” (Chūn Jié): a week-long traditional holiday...