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Hoteliers claim Booking.com parity agreement still wrong and anti-competitive

By Kevin May | April 24, 2015

Booking.com's move to appease regulators over rate parity agreements with hotels has not been met with... Read More

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Ixigo joins in as taxis and ride-sharing take hold in India

By Martin Cowen | April 23, 2015

Indian travel search site ixigo.com has launched a metasearch app for taxis and signed a distribution... Read More

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Just in time: Booking.com brings Now to Apple Watch

By Linda Fox | April 23, 2015

Tomorrow Booking.com launches its Booking Now service for Apple Watch, coinciding with the launch of... Read More

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The opportunity to improve margins in travel (but with no margin for error)

By Viewpoints | April 23, 2015

The travel industry, like so many others in the internet age, is seeing margins on its core products... Read More

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TripsByTips splits - community platform sold to Expedia, Mairdumont picks up B2B business

By Kevin May | April 23, 2015

Eight years after its formation as a travel community, TripsByTips is moving to pastures new - in two... Read More

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Capturing consumer clusters and how they might shape travel

By Linda Fox | April 22, 2015

Four have become six as Amadeus revisits its Traveller Tribes study, with the original published back... Read More

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Baidu and the changing face of destination marketing

By Viewpoints | April 22, 2015

Baidu is the most popular search engine in China and the fifth-largest website in the world, based on... Read More

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Indian Railways takes cue from THack, launches ticketless booking

By Nick Vivion | April 22, 2015

In an effort to go completely paperless, the Indian Railways has created a mobile ticketing system for... Read More

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Hotel pricing mechanisms need a direct approach

By Pamela Whitby | April 22, 2015

Hoteliers have been telling us for years that the public needs to be better educated about what rates... Read More

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All in the mind? Artificial Intelligence in travel

By Viewpoints | April 21, 2015

Yes, the death of travel agents at the hands of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been greatly... Read More

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