Five hotel chains are forming their own system for booking hotel rooms over the Web. But the group has a ways to go if it's going to challenge existing big guns like Expedia. Greg Sandoval covers ...

Two new Internet distribution systems offering discounted hotel rooms on the Web are meeting resistance from business travel buyers because neither Web solution intends to credit reservations toward ...

The American Society of Travel Agents says the collaboration online by the top hotel chains raises antitrust concerns, though an analyst says the judgment is premature. Greg Sandoval covers media and ...

Travelweb is the newest provider of online hotel room deals operating under the merchant model business strategy. As net rate merchants, hotel wholesalers such as Travelweb obtain net room rates from ...

Getting your hotel tech demands right is never an easy process. Why should tech for hotel distribution be any different? Hoteliers end up working with many vendors to help grasp demand, set rates. and ...

NEW YORK -- The prospect that USA Interactive (USAI) chief executive Barry Diller will deliver on his desire to take 100% control of Expedia and Hotels.com is leading to restless nights in the lodging ...

Photo Credit: The nhow hotel in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, is part of NH Hotels. Some NH Hotels are participating in Impala's new connectivity tech. NH Hotels It's taken years for hotels to adopt ...

Taking a page out of Orbitz's playbook, five hotel chains announced Monday that they are banding together to form their own distribution system for booking hotel rooms over the Web. Hilton Hospitality ...