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Tnooz-Sabre Webinar VIDEO: Mobile and social media - sort the facts from the hype

By PhocusWire | December 2, 2011

With the rapid advancements in mobile and social media, travel companies often find themselves struggling to separate hype from fact. Read More

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Air New Zealand buries social media campaign with online whodunnit

By Linda Fox | December 1, 2011

Air New Zealand mascot Rico has met with an untimely death - or perhaps that should be timely. Read More

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Twigmore shows how to use friends on Facebook to find locals in a destination

By Kevin May | November 28, 2011

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based Twigmore, a Facebook-based platform which connects travellers and locals through friends. Read More

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Why games can work for travel brands: Traveler IQ, four years on

By Kevin May | November 25, 2011

A fair amount of chatter at conferences these days is around the idea of adding some form of gaming into the online travel experience, as a way of engaging further with users. Read More

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The power of just ONE user review for travel companies

By Viewpoints | November 24, 2011

Forget the controversies for a moment, there is no doubt that online reviews provide significant benefits for organisations in any industry. Read More

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Qantas Twitter storm on #qantasluxury highlights when NOT to use social media

By Tim Hughes | November 24, 2011

This week, someone in the Qantas PR team had the great idea to run an experiment with a competition on Twitter to promote the luxurious nature of its first class product. Read More

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Facebook: Wisdom of Friends replacing Wisdom of Crowds in travel

By Kevin May | November 16, 2011

Facebook has turned into the new Google (in many, many respects) - and when it speaks, pretty much the entire business world has a tendency to listen. Read More

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Social-led trip planning travel startups - more questions than answers

By Kevin May | November 15, 2011

What is it about the idea of social media, trip planning, content-filled sites that seems to attract dozens of bright young things to the travel industry? Read More

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Trippy raises $1.75 million in first round of outside investment

By Kevin May | November 15, 2011

Mobile and web trip planning platform Trippy has captured a $1.75 million round of investment, led by Sequoia Capital and True Ventures. Read More

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How airlines use Twitter - October 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | November 11, 2011

Even before hitting its recent high profile fortnight, troubled airline Qantas had flown in to become the second most talked about airline on Twitter. Read More

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Gogobot move over -- Uptake goes social with unstructured Facebook data

By Dennis Schaal | November 9, 2011

Uptake joined the social, trip-planning crowd, but it says its new feature is superior because it mines unstructured data from Facebook. Read More

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What happened when a hotel armed social media-loving clubbers with RFID wristbands?

By Kevin May | November 8, 2011

It was a curious move earlier this year when a hotel on the famous European dance music island of Ibiza decided to combine RFID technology with social media in a major way. Read More

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Social media becoming most important marketing channel for travel, PPC in fourth place

By Linda Fox | November 7, 2011

Social media's place as a marketing channel for the travel industry as well as its use for researching and buying a holiday is causing much scratching of heads. Read More

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TLabs Reprise - TourRadar 12 months on

By Kevin May | November 4, 2011

TourRadar is a Europe and Australia-based tour and activity platform, which first featured on Tnooz in July 2010. So what happened in the intervening 12 months? Read More

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Orbitz banks on American Express deal and likes 3.5M Facebook bids

By Dennis Schaal | November 3, 2011

Orbitz Worldwide believes new, as-yet-to-be launched private-label partnerships, including the one it plans to implement with American Express next year, will account for about 10% of its global revenue... Read More

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