Tourism Industry Blog

The Trade Me Travel team have now announced they are bringing accommodation booking opportunities into their main Trade Me auction site with a Travel section.

As a follow on from the Channel Management Options article, here is a useful summary from Mike Ford about the benefits of using a channel manager for accommodation providers and what the future holds.

One of the biggest concerns for accommodation providers when wanting to sell their rooms online is how to avoid double bookings when selling live “realtime” inventory across multiple booking channel websites.

There are plenty of choices in the market for accommodation operators in selecting an online booking system. The decision on which you choose will come down to a few key areas relevant to your business.

Google’s “experiment” to show hotel pricing on their Google Maps hotel listings is an indication of their future plans that will no doubt impact on the online travel market.

Online bookings are now nearly mainstream in the marketplace and there’s been recent proliferation of new players. Yet many New Zealand accommodation suppliers still create headaches for resellers by not keeping their rates and availability up to date.

It looks like the trans tasman rivalry has already kicked off with a flurry of media activity about the hotel prices for the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

Something a little different – Previous posts have focused on some things that accommodation providers need to be doing better; today I’d like to highlight three great experiences I had last week.

Put a People Person on your front desk..train your front office people so they understand that each person through the front door is the most important person in the room…all too often this is not happening in New Zealand hotels.

Industry statistics indicate online credit card use in New Zealand as a percentage is a little more than half that of Australia. What can be done to put consumers minds at ease with using the internet to book?