Restaurants Top Email Open and Click-Through in First Half 2006
Travel and Hospitality Click-Through Rate Lags at 23.4% ...more

Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts Launches New .travel Websites For Five-Star Paradisus Resorts Luxury Properties
In an effort to further extend its renowned first-class service to the global traveler, Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts has announced the creation of new websites utilizing the .travel Internet domain, each dedicated exclusively to each of its Paradisus luxury, all-inclusive brand resorts. ...more

Internet Transforms All Marketing Says Study
Marketers are employing a more data-driven approach to reach a growing number of consumers who have integrated the Internet into their daily lives, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit research project sponsored by Google. ...more

www.FastBooking.com FastBooking's New Hotel Booking Portal
FastBooking - the Internet hotel booking expert - is launching a new online hotel booking portal. FastBooking.com federates over 3 000 establishments worldwide, contains over 100 000 customer reviews and provides direct access to the hotels' official websites. ...more

Hot Market In India: An Online Corporate Travel Industry Emerges - By Ram Badrinathan
India is clearly an emerging leisure online travel market, attracting millions in start-up funding, according to PhoCusWright's The Emerging Online Travel Marketplace in India report. But is there an online corporate travel market to speak of? The answer is yes and no. ...more

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Ensuring Credit Card Security via PCI Compliance: What Hotels Need to Know - By Andrew Sanders
In modern times, it seems that most people are concerned about credit card security - an issue that has come to the forefront in today's world of paperless financial transactions. The credit card industry has responded to these concerns by requiring businesses to achieve PCI compliance - in other words, compliance with a new, universal security standard. ...more

Survey Suggests Majority of Consumers Are Not Concerned about Privacy at Public Wi-Fi Hotspots
Only 26% Expressed Concerns about Security, Research Also Indicates That 51% of U.S. Adults Have Connected to the Internet Wirelessly of Which 63% Have Done So in a Public Hot Spot ...more

Dave Lutz Named to Passkey Board of Directors
Passkey, the world's leading online group reservation system, today announced the appointment of Dave Lutz, managing director of Velvet Chainsaw Consulting and former president of Conferon, Inc. and ExpoExchange, to the company's Board of Directors. ...more

Spain-based Silken Hotels Group Renews Distribution Partnership With TravelCLICK
TravelCLICK Inc., a leading provider of hotel business process management (BPM) solutions, announced today that Silken Hotels, with 30 properties throughout Spain, will continue to use TravelCLICK's iHotelier booking engine for its Web connectivity and proven ability to drive incremental revenue though electronic distribution channels locally and internationally. ...more

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