The Association of Youth Travel Accommodation
Web Reservations International (WRI), the online accommodation booking company behind Hostelworld, has announced its acquisition of HostelBookers.com for €100m. The all paper deal will require regulatory clearance but will be a welcome addition to the company which already owns the Hostelworld. com and Hostels. com websites. WRI is a provider of technology, distribution and marketing solutions […]
From mobile apps to deal sites, people use technology more than ever to help find places to go. Technology also helps vacationers enjoy themselves after they reach their destinations. But just how much is technology changing the way we travel? Nearly one-third of social media users have used a mobile app to find good prices for flights […]
Cape Town Tourism, Wesgro, and the City of Cape Town have returned from travel trade expo and conference, ITB Berlin, after successful meetings with airlines, the travel trade, media, travel bloggers, and platforms like Facebook and Tripadvisor. Airlines are reporting a positive take-up of flights to Cape Town and extra flights may be made available […]
Having interviewed more than 50 millennials in great depth, I’ve consistently been struck by two things. One, they are a generation united by acceptance of cultural diversity, a critical view of American policies, social liberalism, a healthy dose of scepticism about their own generation, and the painfully obvious common factor: technology. The other thing I’ve been struck […]
Amsterdam/Dublin STAY WYSE the global association representing youth travel accommodation and Hostelbench the leading benchmarking service for hostels have signed an agreement to collaborate on data provision to the hostel sector. In addition Hostelbench users who are members of STAY WYSE will receive additional performance-based benchmarking data sets. Key performance indicators such as Occupancy, Bed […]
The hotel front desk has a long and honourable, even cinematic, tradition of service. Would Hitchcock’s North by Northwest be as witty if Cary Grant hadn’t urbanely sparred with an officious front-desk clerk at Chicago’s Ambassador East? Wouldn’tForgetting Sarah Marshall be even more forgettable had not the morose Jason Segel fallen in love at the front desk ofHawaii’s Turtle […]
Browse, Book and Start Making Friends are the three steps needed to use WeHostels, a new iPhone travel app that is about as easy as it gets to book a no-frills place to sleep for the night. Like a HotelTonight for hostels, WeHostels has some unique features worth a look. Testing the app for my hometown of Orlando produced four good results […]
The online budget accommodation market is booming. While other traditional powerhouses of the travel industry flounder in the face of changing technologies and rapidly shifting consumer demands, it continues to go from strength to strength. Its been quietly going about its business, steadily growing, year on year, but still slipping under the radar. Which makes […]
