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PhocusWire's in-depth coverage of the travel, tourism and hospitality industry with its distribution process and systems, featuring news, analysis, interviews, research and more.
How do travellers engage with different types of images?
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How do travellers engage with different types of images?
By Martin Cowen | October 3, 2014
Travellers like to see their hotel room before booking, so it makes sense that they might like to see... Read More
One click travel by 2020 via devices not even invented
News / Technology
One click travel by 2020 via devices not even invented
By Linda Fox | October 2, 2014
The year 2020 doesn't seem that far away so findings in a Switchfly study on future travel trends make... Read More
Expedia bid for Wotif takeover back on track
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Expedia bid for Wotif takeover back on track
By Martin Cowen | October 2, 2014
Panic over - an Australian regulator has decided that Expedia Inc's proposed takeover of wotif.com... Read More
Startup pitch: TourDigger is a new tours-and-activities marketplace
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Startup pitch: TourDigger is a new tours-and-activities marketplace
By Sean O'Neil | October 1, 2014
New Ottawa-based startup Tourdigger.com, a B2C aggregator of tours and activities in about a thousand... Read More
Meta wins: Ongoing implications as bot scraping continues to be good business in travel
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Meta wins: Ongoing implications as bot scraping continues to be good business in travel
By Nick Vivion | October 1, 2014
Deploying robot scripts to scrape content is nearly as old as the Internet itself - as the Web shifted... Read More
Dear 2015, seven wishes for the coming year from hotels
News / Technology
Dear 2015, seven wishes for the coming year from hotels
By Pamela Whitby | October 1, 2014
If you work in hospitality you will know that in this fragmented, complicated business things are... Read More
LastRoom's pivot: 5 travel startup truths learned the hard way
News / Technology
LastRoom's pivot: 5 travel startup truths learned the hard way
By Viewpoints | September 30, 2014
Mexico City-based LastRoom.com recently pivoted from courting leisure travelers as the "Latin American... Read More
UK government wants in on sharing economy
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UK government wants in on sharing economy
By Linda Fox | September 30, 2014
The UK government is looking to "open doors" for the sharing economy and make the country a global... Read More
Chinese link-up as SiteMinder connects with Ctrip
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Chinese link-up as SiteMinder connects with Ctrip
By Martin Cowen | September 29, 2014
SiteMinder is heading deep into Chinese hotel distribution with a "strategic integration partnership"... Read More
Putting the Good back into Google - a massive rethinking of its role in hospitality?
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Putting the Good back into Google - a massive rethinking of its role in hospitality?
By Viewpoints | September 29, 2014
How can Google re-establish it’s moral and useful, self admitted position on planet search and in... Read More
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