BHA Member: Memories of China

News: December 2011

Strike action sees spike in online booking levels

December 01, 2011

Bookatable.com, Europe’s largest free restaurant reservations website, saw a massive 25% week on week increase in online reservations being made at restaurant chains in the UK. Parents forced home by Wednesday’s strike action turned to restaurants to keep their kids entertained. Mobile bookings also saw a week on week spike of 23% as families searched out last minute offers using the internet on their phones and the Bookatable App while on the …

Strike action sees spike in online booking levels

President’ s Debate on accommodation grading schemes v. recommendation sites

December 01, 2011

Click here to book now! This house believes that the abundance of User Generated rating sites, which are more useful to both the public and travel sector, have the potential to make grading systems obsolete. The topic of accommodation rating systems never seems to go away. At one point it looked as though the government had already taken a decision to do away with centrally organised schemes in favour of relying on …

President’ s Debate on accommodation grading schemes v. recommendation sites