Ranking the Best Business and Personal Travel Sites
Frommer’s is known as “America’s leader in travel guide information since 1957, has revealed the current results of its popular Best and Worst Airfare and Hotel Booking Sites studies.”
According to two separate studies, Frommer’s stationed the biggest brands in airfare and hotel booking search engines against each other in multiple rounds of intense head-to-head competition to determine which 10 sites in both categories were best at providing the most competitive \ prices, the most viable results, and the best user experience.
Since Frommer’s last rankings — now from three years ago — the playing field has changed significantly. For 2020’s list, upstart sites have exploded. Meanwhile some of the biggest brands brands have actually closed shop and some, like GoogleFlights, failed to even crack the top 10. Amid the scuffle, scrappy underdog Agoda climbed on one list but tumbled on another, and new champions HotelsCombined (hotels) and Skiplagged (airfares) won first place.
Using a refined and weighted scoring system—including negative points for finding the worst prices—each big name in this contest has been ranked.
How to determine the “Best and the Worst”
Airfare sites: The Top Ten, along with analysis of what the results revealed about those websites, is at www.frommers.com/bestairfaresites.
Hotel sites: The final results, along with detailed commentary, can be found at www.frommers.com/besthotelsites.
Landing pages: www.frommers.com/bestairfaresites Or: https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848046-10-best-and-worst-airfare-booking-sites. And www.frommers.com/besthotelsites or https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/819303-best-and-worst-hotel-booking-websites
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