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How Attribute-Based Shopping Will Change Hotel Booking

Altexsoft

When searching for hotel rooms, parents with young children may very much prefer to not have a fireplace or a high floor view, while honeymooners may be willing to pay to have both a fireplace and a view. Many hotels, though, still use an old shopping model. shift to more premium rooms and rates ” even in its early trials with ABS.

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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

Altexsoft

In April 2020, the hotel occupancy in the US dropped to its lowest level ever — the bewildering 24.5 The annual average was roughly 44 percent, which means that more than half of hotel rooms were empty during the whole year. This means a hotel is charged every time the ad is clicked and redirection occurs.

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Black Crow AI raises $25M to predict which products e-commerce customers will buy

TechCrunch

In the pandemic era, when digital storefronts have become a matter of course for retailers, data analytics is proving its worth. Those advantages — as well as their ability to forecast inventory and measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns — have driven predictive analytics software revenues to record heights.

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Beekeeper, which helps companies engage with their ‘deskless’ frontline workforce, raises $50M

TechCrunch

Beekeeper’s platform constitutes tools to support messaging, surveys, video and voice chats, FAQ chatbots, workflow automation (e.g. On top of that, Beekeeper also packs analytics to serve managers with metrics around engagement. Beekeeper analytics Image Credits: Beekeeper. .

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How To Create A Successful App For Hotel Booking and Flight Search In 2020

Xicom

Here, I am sharing some technology trends for online booking to answer the most frequently asked questions: How sustainability is driving hotel decisions? Thus, the flight booking and hotel stay procedure should be simple. By now, you must have decided to offer an on-demand online hotel reservation. Machine Learning.

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Concerto snags $21.2M to bring co-branded credit cards to more brands

TechCrunch

In a separate survey (conducted by Finder), close to a third of respondents said that they’ve used a credit card solely to rack up rewards points. cardholders had a card in 2014 that was associated with a hotel, airline, or other type of merchant or group, up from 46.4% in 2010, according to Simmons National Consumer Survey data.

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Why Data Governance Is Crucial for All Enterprise-Level Businesses

Cloudera

Whether the enterprise uses dozens or hundreds of data sources for multi-function analytics, all organizations can run into data governance issues. stemmed from a 2018 data breach, when the global hotel chain’s 339 million customers’ data was exposed. Everyone Fails Data Governance. In 2019, the U.K.’s In 2019, the U.K.’s