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Announcing the 2010 Reviewers’ Choice Hotel Awards from FunnelScope

January 17, 2010

FunnelScope announces the first hotel awards based on user reviews! These awards leverage an innovative approach of aggregating millions of reviews from travel and review sites and scoring each review for key criteria and categories. The winning hotels by each category are listed below.  Congratulations to the 2010 Reviewers’ Choice Hotel Award winners!
The Reviewers’ Choice [...]

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Hotel Prices Forecasted To Drop In 2010

November 9, 2009

Yes!  Hotel prices are forecasted to drop by 2%-3% in 2010.
You thought there was only good news in the 2010 forecast didn’t you.  Sorry.
Here’s the bad news:  airlines will be able to raise ticket prices by 2% to 8% in 2010.  And, even though hotel costs should go down, the overall cost of a domestic [...]

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Travel Booked Online Expected to Grow

October 28, 2009

Travel booked online is expected to continue to see growth over the next 4 years according to Barclays Capital.
However, the rate of growth is slowly tapering off from the 20% range in 2006/2007 to an estimated 9% in 2013.
Independent of economic factors, perhaps the online travel growth trajectory will once again start to see a [...]

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