Best of Tnooz last week - All about going crazy, mashing-up, guerillas, caring and Holy Grails

What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?

Top ten by traffic:

• Mashing up airport codes for a clever Expedia ad campaign [IMAGES]
• World’s most searched-for travel destinations in 2012
• Booking.com extends vacation rental offering with partner properties, another new battle starts
• The travel industry can be absurd, so don’t add to the suck factor – do something crazy instead
• Superfly’s guerilla marketing on Facebook is luring travelers to its flight search
• Faktum – you will have never seen a hotel website like this before
• Travel startups: ditch the consumer traction and focus on data
• GetYourGuide raises $14M for tours and activities push in new markets
• Desktop versus mobile behaviour in travel search [INFOGRAPHIC]
• Backpackers rejoice: The Holy Grail of multi-stop RTW flights is here?

Top five by comments:

• The travel industry can be absurd, so don’t add to the suck factor – do something crazy instead
• Cutting out the noise to get the full travel story – but now what do we call it?
• Travel startups: ditch the consumer traction and focus on data
• Backpackers rejoice: The Holy Grail of multi-stop RTW flights is here?
• Booking.com extends vacation rental offering with partner properties, another new battle starts

TLabs Showcase:

• App in the Air wants to remove airport stress through status alerts and passenger chat

Data:

• Decolar nears web milestone – Top Brazil travel websites, December 2012
• CheapoAir, Travelocity and Orbitz all vying for position – Top US travel websites, December 2012
• WestJet loses web crown to Air Canada – Top Canada travel websites, December 2012
• British Airways and Thomson rise to the top – Top UK travel websites, December 2012

What you missed before:

• Best of Tnooz last week - All about language, investment, acquisitions, storytelling and social evolution

TCritic:

• Managing travel itineraries: Easier said then done even with digital tools
• Shaken, never stirred: ioSafe (REALLY) Rugged Portable Hard Drive

Coming up:

• ENTER 2013 - Innsbruck (January 22-25)
• Tnooz-WEX FREE Webinar: Success stories for e-payments in travel booking (January 30)
• Travel Technology Europe 2013 - London (February 5-6)
• ITB - Berlin (March 6-10)

Previous events:

• Tnooz-Sabre Webinar VIDEO – App explosion: how B2B apps reinvent travel and create new services
• Tnooz-Datalex Webinar VIDEO – Traveller experience: bridging divide between merchandising and loyalty
• Tnooz-Tealeaf webinar VIDEO: The mobile traveler experience
• Tnooz-Amadeus webinar VIDEO: How to market and sell unbundled travel
• Tnooz-Travelport webinar VIDEO: Making open travel tech ecosystems work to your advantage

GDS news roundup:

• Travel distribution news from Travelport, Amadeus, Sabre, Abacus – January 2012

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