Not clicking around: According to a new study, leisure travelers are only visiting 4.4 unique websites before booking travel – a steep decline from a 2015 Expedia study whose research suggested 38 sites were visited before booking. Factors leading to the decline include improved Google search, consolidation and better websites.
Read more about the study by Fuel Travel and Flip.to
Host results: Host Hotels & Resorts reported its 2016 results today. Revenue increased to US$5.43 billion from US$5.35, a 1.5% increase from 2015. Adjusted EBITDA rose to US$1.47 billion from US$1.41 billion, a 4.4% increase.
Read Host’s Q4 2016 and full-year results
Scotsman purchase: Entrepreneur Stefan King’s hospitality firm announced that it is buying the troubled Scotsman hotel in Edinburgh. A purchase price was not named.
Read more in the Scotsman (the newspaper)
More rooms in Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia will see a record 68 new hotels and 29,033 rooms open in its major cities this year, according to a report by the Hotel Show Saudi Arabia 2017.