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Freelance
trivago
South Africa
I hail from Cape Town, South Africa and have had a varied career focused mainly on the hospitality industry. My last formal appointment was as General Manager of a small country hotel and I've since switched to being a fulltime contributor to trivago which is a global travel community and travel destination portal.
I hail from Cape Town, South Africa and have had a varied career focused mainly on the hospitality industry. My last formal appointment was as General Manager of a small country hotel and I've since switched to being a fulltime contributor to trivago which is a global travel community and travel destination portal.
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Tygerberg Commercial, South Africa
High school diploma or equivalent, 1979.
Damelin, South Africa
Other Professional degree, 1989.
Areas of study: Human Resources
In the travel industry, pricing and availability inventory change constantly.
For example, hotel room suppliers often change their prices on a daily basis in accordance with fluctuations in their capacity. trivago's search technology is tailored for such shifting in price and availability, enabling us to collect dynamic information from numerous sources in a way that conventional search engines cannot. Our search technology is designed for rapidly changing data. In contrast to traditional search engines (e.g. Google) that are built to handle fairly static information, trivago's search technology is designed to handle highly fluid data.
trivago makes a highly individual selection a reality and as such is also a perfect Web 2.0 example. Its price comparison engine searches numerous other websites for the best deals available in real time. With trivago you can view a full range of hotels and package deals based on the exact criteria you have chosen.
Our search engine helps people find hotels and package deals from travel suppliers all over the world. Unlike other travel search sites we are able to show you prices from different travel agents and supplier sites. This results in a better travel search experience, more complete search results and -best of all- savings for you. Rather than comparing prices from different sites yourself, let us do the work and save you time and money!
From the Guardian News Blog:
"Germany-based Trivago combines reviews, stories and photos from travellers with e-commerce services like hotel booking. It's not the only service in the very busy and lucrative travel vertical, but it has a loyal 40,000 followers that spend 20,000 hours on the site each month because of the heavy user-content approach.
Founded in April 2005, the site employs 21 staff including 10 country managers for its localised European versions including the UK, France, Germany and Sweden. The Dusseldorf-based firm has already had one round of funding from investors including the Samwer Brothers, who recently invested more than $10m in Facebook, and raised second round from Howzat, run by the Cheapflights.co.uk entrepreneurs."
How can independent retailers best survive and thrive against big box competitors in the long term?
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