by James Eling | Jun 6, 2017 | Booking, Dimmi, tripadvisor
Stevan Premutico is has announced that he will be leaving Dimmi at the end of the month. Dimmi, which was purchased by Tripadvisor in 2015 for an undisclosed amount, with Jared Chapman taking over as CEO on the 1st of July. Chapman, who is listed in Linkedin as the...
by James Eling | May 31, 2017 | Booking, Dimmi, Groupon, tripadvisor, Uncategorised
Too many restaurants are having their customers stolen by Dimmi (owned by Tripadvisor), though a practice known as restaurant adwords arbitrage, from the one place on the internet that their customers details should be safe and that is the Google search for their own...
by James Eling | Apr 22, 2017 | Booking, CRM, Dimmi, online booking, online bookings, online reviews, Open Table, quandoo, Respak, Uncategorised
Online Restaurant Reservation Systems have seen continued growth and changes in 2017, with new entrants and some getting a lot quieter. We do a comparison of some of the big online Restaurant Reservation systems and go through the pros and cons of all of them. In...
by James Eling | Nov 10, 2016 | Booking, online bookings, opentable
Multiple articles today are reporting that Priceline will scale back their investment and expansion for it’s online booking service, OpenTable as the number of OpenTable alternatives increase and limit growth rates out of the United States. OpenTable is the...
by James Eling | Apr 3, 2016 | Booking, Dimmi, opentable, Respak, tripadvisor
Skift is reporting that Priceline, the owner of OpenTable, may be looking to acquire TripAdvisor. Dennis Schall writes that Priceline has talked about it’s unappreciated competitive moat, and an acquisition of TripAdvisor would make a big statement and widen...
by James Eling | Dec 11, 2015 | Booking, Open Table
After almost 12 months in preparation, it finally appears that OpenTable Australia will start taking bookings in Australia. In September we wrote that OpenTable had announced the purchase of AS Digital. The launch, which is reported in Hospitality Magazine, is...
