http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/ By Tony & Cheri, Live from the Luna Blue in Playa del Carmen, Mexico Fri, 03 May 2013 02:08:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/#comment-8299 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:38:42 +0000 http://playazone.wordpress.com/?p=4158#comment-8299 A Norwegian Hotel Chain is about to sue Expedia for many of the same reasons you mention:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=no&tl=en&prev=_dd&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.no%2Fforsiden%2Fnaringsliv%2Farticle2589999.ece
(The translation is a bit off, but hopefully you’ll make some sense out of it

]]> http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/#comment-8248 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:46:48 +0000 http://playazone.wordpress.com/?p=4158#comment-8248 Very good question. We would love to hear people’s thoughts on this.

]]> http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/#comment-8247 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:29:17 +0000 http://playazone.wordpress.com/?p=4158#comment-8247 What can we do collectively as small business owners to push back against these larger corporate forces? There must be new ways of collectively organizing and marketing that will allow us to regain some power over the market. Suggestions? Thoughts?

]]> http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/#comment-8234 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:13:50 +0000 http://playazone.wordpress.com/?p=4158#comment-8234 You’re so cool! I don’t believe I’ve truly read through anything like this before. So wonderful to discover another person with some unique thoughts on this subject. Really.. thank you for starting this up. This web site is one thing that is needed on the web, someone with a bit of originality!

]]> http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/#comment-8081 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:17:00 +0000 http://playazone.wordpress.com/?p=4158#comment-8081 [...] the Heads blogged about the situation on the Luna Blue website, The Verge, one of the largest technology/media [...]

]]> http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/#comment-7948 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:11:44 +0000 http://playazone.wordpress.com/?p=4158#comment-7948 Thanks for the info! Never using Expedia again.

]]> http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/#comment-7896 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:05:05 +0000 http://playazone.wordpress.com/?p=4158#comment-7896 Thanks for the suggestions, Ross.

]]> http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/#comment-7879 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:13:20 +0000 http://playazone.wordpress.com/?p=4158#comment-7879 [...] then I read this – and this – from a pair of American ex-pats who run a small, independent hotel along the Mexican [...]

]]> http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/#comment-7876 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:40:37 +0000 http://playazone.wordpress.com/?p=4158#comment-7876 Wow! Gracias por compartir su historia! Como hotelero les deseo lo mejor para poder fomentar la venta directa. Saludos desde Argentina!

]]> http://playazone.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/expedia-bad-for-the-traveler-bad-for-the-hotel/#comment-7853 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:33:38 +0000 http://playazone.wordpress.com/?p=4158#comment-7853 Thank you. Great suggestion. We have actually been going through all of our pages and updating them, so it’s good to remember the copyright. Thanks!

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