Booking.com now recommends hotels by people's passions February 24, 2016 - 11:35 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Booking.com, part of travel monolith Priceline Group, wants to sell a hotel room based on what people like to do — not just where they want to go, VentureBeat reports. The company has soft-launched a new feature, called Passion Search, which recommends destinations and hotels based on interests like stargazing, spicy food, gambling, or mountaineering. According to Booking.com CMO Pepijn Rijvers, speaking on stage at VentureBeat’s Marketing.FWD conference, the company has “mapped 230 passions” so far based on “tens of millions of endorsements … sourced in the past 12 months.” “We’ve made it part of our core search,” said Rijvers. For now only some people will see the feature on Booking.com’s homepage, a company representative told VentureBeat.   Top stories Azerbaijani authorities report that they have already resettled 3,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Stepanakert. On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive.   Partner news |  Latest news Viva sees growing demand for cloud services  In recent years, medical institutions are starting to make use of Viva’s cloud servicesArmenian, German presidents meet in Berlin Armenian and German Presidents Vahagn Khachaturyan and Frank-Walter Steinmeier met in Berlin.Armenia assumes presidency of Mediterranean Network of Regulatory Authorities The Commission on Television and Radio of Armenia said it expects productive cooperation in various formats.Balance of attached cards in the Idram&IDBank app From now on, users will be able to view the online balances of cards issued by ArCa system banks and attached to the app. |
