Booking Trends, Special Trips: 5 to Check Out

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › September 28, 2004

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The news of travel - industry disputes, general trends, new companies and travel services - might sometimes have as much bearing on your next vacation as a special airfare or hotel bargain. Here are five recent travel stories of significance:

* Battle of the Titans: War has erupted in the use of the Internet to book hotel rooms, with the announcement by the InterContinental Hotels Group (which owns Holiday Inn, among its 3,500 hotels) that it will no longer permit Expedia and Expedia's subsidiary, Hotels.com, to list or sell IHG's hotel rooms. Why? Mainly because Expedia and Hotels.com are allegedly increasing the price of IHG's rooms by adding fishy "service charges" that go to them, not the hotels.

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Booking Trends, Special Trips: 5 to Check Out

Since most of the chain hotels no longer give big discounts to the big Internet booking engines and prohibit them from undercutting the price the chains offer, Web sites like Hotels...

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