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Avoiding a Stay at a Haunted Hotel And Why We Need a Travel App for That

CIO

Imagine booking a room at a small, charming, off-the-beaten-path hotel on the Hawaiian island of Kauai using a popular mobile travel app, only to discover that the room is… haunted! Even now, an SAP customer or partner could be developing such a tool. That’s what happened to my friend Dana. But that didn’t go as planned.

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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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The Best Developer Conferences of 2022

Dzone - DevOps

Unlike a lot of industries, conferences for developers are actually worth it. They aren’t just an excuse to spend your T&E budget, stay in a new hotel and see some bands that are over the hill.

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Guide to Digitizing Hotel Upselling and Cross-Selling: Strategies and Tools

Altexsoft

Upselling and cross-selling provide hotel owners and managers with the ability to drive greater profit from the same guest by timely offering valuable services. This post aims at explaining the key hotel upselling and cross-selling strategies, ways to digitize them effectively, and examples of existing software serving that purpose.

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India’s Oyo to file for $1 billion IPO

TechCrunch

Indian budget hotel chain startup Oyo is looking to file for an initial public offering as soon as next week, people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, joining a handful of firms in the world’s second-largest market that are working to explore the public markets.

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

Xicom

So, to satisfy the needs of tech-savvy travellers without breaking the budget for an exciting adventure, you need to partner with a trusted app development company. Here, I am sharing some technology trends for online booking to answer the most frequently asked questions: How sustainability is driving hotel decisions?

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Indian market regulator puts insurer Digit’s $440 million IPO in ‘abeyance’

TechCrunch

The Indian capital market regulator has moved Digit’s IPO application to “abeyance,” it said in what is a disappointing development for the online insurer’s plan to go public. million in losses for the fiscal year that ended in March.

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