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Hospitality & Travel Industry News, Events, and Updates by SiteMinder

Bangkok, Thailand – SiteMinder, the global hotel industry’s leading guest acquisition platform, has today partnered with AsiaPay, a premier digital payment solution and payment service provider, to simplify the online payments process for consumers booking a hotel room in Asia. Through the partnership, which comes amid rising consumer expectations for choice and contactless experiences, […] Read Article to Me...

Brits Call Time on Unrealistic Holiday Pictures

LONDON – The aftermath of Sunshine Saturday’s* traditional holiday booking rush sees social media feeds flooded with unrealistic, over-filtered images of idyllic far flung destinations. However, as many Brits face their first week back at work, new research by hotel brand Hampton by Hilton[1] reveals that 28 per cent find these unrealistic and picture-perfect travel images annoying, with holiday ‘hot...

Tourism and COVID-19

In the opening of Ziyad Marar’s book entitled Intimacy, he makes the somewhat generalised claim that ‘contemporary society discourages intimacy’ (2012: 1). Yet, although not that prolifically rehearsed in the literature, the figure of the tourist is shown to be often in search of intimacy, and in some cases the practice of intimacy, or practices associated with intimacy, are an...

Travel and Tourism in India

NEW YORK, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Travel and Tourism in India[1] http://www.reportlinker.com/p0153460/Travel-and-Tourism-in-India.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Tourism With increasing disposable incomes and a flourishing economy, holidaying remained a popular trend driving travel and tourism. Indian travellers continued to spend lavishly on travel and were keen to explore newer destinations. Travel is...