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I blogged about this on this very blog last year. People don't seem to be paying attention.

Google Maps and hotel price data - a warning

Basically, Google need live pricing data for this hotel pricing feature on Maps to work. The only places they can get this data in the right (XML) format is from Online Travel Agent websites, large hotel chains or hotels equipped with the "right" PMS systems.

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This article popped in to my inbox this morning.

Hotel marketing article

Now I accept this is an excerpt. I note that the full version is available to the rest of us for about $1,000, but I really can't accept that travel agent websites outperformed hotel websites in terms of sales conversion, simply because hoteliers put their prices up.

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