Big Four Travel Websites Outperform Travel Specialists PR Newswire via Globe Investor (March 7)
HotelsCombined.com is a metasearch engine for hotel rooms. It did a 'quick' survey of travel sites on St Patrick's Day "on hotel availability for St Patrick’s Day festivities in Dublin" .
The comparison was:
Leading European travel specialists Booking.com
Lastminute.com
Laterooms.com
Opodo.co.uk
Vs Big Four
Expedia.com
Orbitz.com
Travelocity.com
Priceline.com
Result: "top four still come up trumps when it comes to hotel inventory and availability"
Presumably you could do even better at Hotelscombined.
""On HotelsCombined.com, we show all these brands, from niche sites to all the major online brands. Consumers can use our website to get results from all these hotel reservation websites on a single webpage. They don't have to search each hotel website individually to compare pricing and availability information. That way, they can get the maximum results for hotel availability for any destination and the lowest prices for any hotel.""
Results also posted to Hotelscombined - Big four travel websites outperform travel specialists
Posted by Gwen at March 7, 2008 12:41 PM