Bed and Breakfast Industry News - Asia Pacific Regional News

A few months ago we wrote about the many reasons why hoteliers should not be using free link shorting services such as TinyURL and Bit.Ly. While there are numerous free services available, most put your hotel at risk and may cost you dearly in lost business opportunities. The Internet is still a little like the - More

Green Key Global, the official green lodging certification program of the Indiana Hotel & Lodging Association, will conduct a panel discussion at the annual Hoosier Hospitality Conference next week. - More

Working together to ensure that global policies are supportive of the sustainable growth of tourism and position travel and tourism as one industry speaking with one voice were some of the challenges highlighted by UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, speaking on the occasion of the opening of this year’s ITB Travel Trade Show (Berlin, Ger... - More

The latest eTRAK Full Year 2009 report on hotel bookings by channel yet again confirms that today, the online channel is the only growth channel in hospitality. In the difficult economic environment, when travel supply outweighed travel demand by far, Internet bookings for the top 30 hotel brands increased by a remarkable 6.6% in 2009 vs. 2008 (... - More

TripTelevision and PlanetEye, Inc. announced a partnership to combine TripTelevision’s High Definition (HD) quality, professional videos, technology, and marketing services with PlanetEye’s mapping, technology and geo-tagged content for the travel industry. - More

Stay on top of the latest news, trends and developments in channels such as... hotel, travel, restaurant, airline and cruise. - More

Hotels in the Asia/Pacific region experienced increases in all three key performance metrics for January 2010 when reported in U.S. dollars, according to data compiled by STR Global. - More

Lodging Interactive, a leading Internet Marketing Agency exclusively servicing the hospitality industry, today announced the ability to track Return on Investment (ROI) from hotel bookings generated by hotel Facebook and Twitter pages. - More

The Asia/Pacific hotel development pipeline includes 948 hotels comprising 239,918 rooms, according to the January 2010 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report released this week. - More

Lodging Interactive, a leading interactive marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry and the publisher of the free Chatter Guard Monthly Benchmark Monitor Report has released its January 2010 report. - More