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Posted by | January 28, 2016
TripAdvisor ® Instant Booking… Revulsion or Revolution?

Speaking of revolution, in 1902 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin published “What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement”.  It was intended in part to mark the end of one...

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Posted by | October 15, 2015
Hospitality Demand Generation Trends & Opportunity Costs

Summary of article published in Hospitality Upgrade - Fall 2015: Much is made of love-hate between hotels and online travel agencies, but what really are the opportunity costs around putting “heads...

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Posted by | July 9, 2015
Hospitality Demand Generation – From Feature To Core

Summary of article published in Tnooz.com -- July 2015 Demand generation has always been important to hotels, why else have sales departments?  But lately it has gone from a function...

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Posted by | November 12, 2014
Et tu, Brute? So Why Exactly Did Expedia Stab Parity?

We previously published the news that Expedia is now offering hotel package rates to travellers that previously booked a flight on Expedia. By exposing the actual rates instead of hiding...

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Posted by | November 1, 2014
It’s Halloween, Not April Fools, and Expedia Is Killing Parity

By coincidence, just noticed this on All Hallow’s Eve. And of course parity is one of those things: news of its death is always greatly exaggerated. So perhaps this latest...

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Posted by | July 29, 2014
Aerospike – A Huge Deal For Travel

Aerospike (the fastest read/write database that operates in-memory, on flash, as a hybrid and on disk as well) is now open source under the Free Software Foundation’s AGPL License, while...

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Posted by | January 23, 2014
Today’s 18-23 Year Old Traveler = Tomorrow’s Profitable Customer

Hudson Crossing’s most recent report focuses on the youngest group of US online adult leisure travelers, people between the ages of 18 and 23. We estimate there are 20.3 million...

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Posted by | August 23, 2013
Travelocity Throws In The Towel, Partners With Expedia

Like someone who finds themselves newly divorced and in need of getting into shape ahead of re-entering the "dating pool," Sabre Holdings, a leading travel technology, distribution, and marketing company,...

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Posted by | June 27, 2013
Previewing Our New Research Report: “Travel’s Mobile Centric Future”

Hudson Crossing is pleased to announce that the launch of our new travel industry research subscription program. Our series of reports will incorporate both proprietary consumer studies – generally large-scale...

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Posted by | May 9, 2013
Man bites dog! Business owners order servers instead of going to the cloud!

In a “man bites dog” tech story on Monday April 29th, Forbes.com featured a post by its regular contributor, Gene Marks, who reported a counter-intuitive trend. All of his clients...

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