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1 September 2010
Gekko hires Commercial Director from Lonely Planet | Breaking Travel News
Gekko, the online personal shopping assistant for hotels has announced that Alex Cheeseman has joined as Commercial Director from the BBC’s Lonely Planet where he was Business Development Manager. He will be responsible for driving Gekko’s revenue opportunities, with a particular focus on Gekko’s recently launched service - Gekko Links...
10 August 2010
Gekko launches affiliate link service | Travolution
Gekko has launched a new service that aims to help travel publishers commercialise their content with the use of affiliate links. The hotels search site has introduced GekkoLinks, which automatically converts mentions of a hotel on a page into an affiliate link. Once a hotel mention has been converted automatically into an affiliate link, a small box will appear with relevant information including availability and prices from multiple booking engines...
24 June 2010
The top 10 family holiday rip-offs.. and how to avoid them! | The Mirror
Excited about your hols? Well, don't get too carried away or you could end up splashing out more of your hard-earned spending money than you banked on...
24 June 2010
Latest Gadgets Round-up: SLURLs, save@gekko,... | LatestGadgets
If you are planning on getting away save@gekko.com is pretty nifty tool for researching hotels from gekko. Totally web-based, the service works by you simply mailing save@gekko.com with hotels picked from any site which it then presents in a simple side by side shortlist. Easy and effective. I just wish I had somewhere to go...
23 June 2010
Gekko Survey Reveals Consumers' Online Hotel Research Habits | Canadian Business
Gekko, the online personal shopping assistant for hotels, has discovered new insights into online hotel research habits via a recent survey of its users...
18 June 2010
Hotel Searching Just Got Easey Peasy | Staggered
Wedding planning and stag-do planning – it might sound like fun in theory, but trust us – they’re six little words that can take over your life if you’re not careful. If you’re already teetering on the edge of madness, it’s not too late to claw back your sanity. There is help out there and today’s knight in shining armour is the wonderful Gekko, the personal shopping assistant for hotels. Gekko has launched a new service called save@gekko.com and it can save honeymoon-hunting brides and grooms, and best men who’re researching stag do ideas a whole lot of hassle and time spent searching for hotels online...
11 June 2010
Consumers Should Book Early To Avoid Disappointment | Newsguide
Many people may leave booking their hotel to the last minute, however Gekko the personal shopping assistant for hotels, which recommends ideal matches for each individual's preferences has suggests to users that they should book early before the summer rush to avoid disappointment...
Gekko launches hotel comparison tool | Travolution
It works by emailing links and travel information to save@gekko.com. A web bookmark tool – known as a bookmarklet – also helps to capture relevant...
25 May 2010
Gekko glides down the bookmarking route for hotel search | Tnooz
European hotel website Gekko is launching a Deli.cio.us-style bookmark tool to allow users to aggregate hotel properties when browsing...
Gekko launches hotel comparison tool | Travolution
It works by emailing links and travel information to save@gekko.com. A web bookmark tool – known as a bookmarklet – also helps to capture relevan...
26 March 2010
Gekko featured on Wandering Educators
11 March 2010
Gekko featured as a 'Travel Pioneer' in Travolution
Gekko is mentioned in 'Top 10 Travel Technologies to watch in 2010' in Travolution
10 March 2010
Gekko is The Daily Mail's Website Of The Week
8 February 2010
The Up Group Blog - Exclusive: Interview with Anton Bell, VP Marketing, Gekko
2 February 2010
Travolution.co.uk - Exclusive: Gekko eyes expansion with city guides
11 January 2010
Urban Daddy - Gekko: your favourite hotel in 40 cities
17 December 2009
Hotelmarketing.com - Gekko.com adds new feature to hotel recommendation engine
16 December 2009
Travolution.co.uk - Gekko.com adds hotel-matching tool
Press releases
25 May, 2010
Gekko launches save@gekko, to help travellers drastically reduce research time
16 December, 2009
Gekko gives spot on hotel recommendations in two clicks
