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By Linda Fox | September 7, 2016

Google continues to release interesting snippets around search behaviour in travel as part of its travel micro-moments marketing push. Just two months ago, it unveiled a Playbook as a guide to the Read More

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A bizarre tale of tourism, sheep and Google Street View

By Kevin May | September 1, 2016

For many, the Faroe Islands is a territory somewhere in the North Atlantic that is famous for being the whipping boy of European footballing nations. Whilst the latter has changed somewhat in recen Read More

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Singapore startup beats the big boys with self-drive taxi trial

By Kevin May | August 25, 2016

The likes of giants such as Uber, Tesla and Google might get all the attention when it comes to self-driving vehicles - but a South East Asian startup has stolen their thunder. Singaporean newbie N Read More

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TripAdvisor lists hotels on Google, Kayak, and Trivago, edging closer to meta metasearch

By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2016

Over the past couple of months, TripAdvisor has been participating in Google's hotel metasearch program. For selected hotels, consumers are seeing TripAdvisor as a place to book. Clicking on th Read More

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New markup standards give hospitality rich cards a lot more structure

By Viewpoints | August 18, 2016

Imagine you’re traveling for work last-minute (difficult, I know). Time is of the essence, and you couldn’t book a hotel room before you left. Like most hotel bookings made from a mobile device, you n Read More

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TrustYou soars thanks, in part, to Google [UPDATED]

By Sean O'Neil | August 17, 2016

TrustYou, the hotel guest feedback platform, has had a big 2016 already. Since last winter, the Munich-based company has been powering Google hotel scores for search and maps where TrustYou finds a Read More

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Move over Pikachu, Google is ready to Tango with travel

By Marisa Garcia | August 12, 2016

Silicon Valley’s San Jose Airport has taken the notion of navigating the terminal one step further by giving customers an augmented reality (AR) view of their surroundings. Instead of looking down Read More

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Google goes guerilla with Rio content site - no Olympic Rings to be seen

By Marisa Garcia | August 4, 2016

Google's in-house creative agency The Zoo has added new features to its "All of Brazil Plays" to coincide with a significant global sporting event taking place in Rio de Janeiro over the next few week Read More

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Airbus taps Google's ITA for A380 flight search engine

By Marisa Garcia | August 2, 2016

Airbus has beta-launched IFlyA380.com, a search engine powered by Google's ITA Software which prioritises flights on the A380 superjumbo. The announcement, which came at last month's Farnborough Ai Read More

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Google uses AI to speed up travel marketing chores

By Kevin May | July 25, 2016

It often appears that some forms of machine learning and artificial intelligence are just playing to the crowd of those wanting things to be automated. Technology for technology's sake, as both Lud Read More

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Two travel brands make it to list of 300 top websites on the planet

By Kevin May | July 21, 2016

Languishing within in a pile of 300 search engines, porn portals, entertainment hubs and retailers are just two travel websites. Booking.com and TripAdvisor feature in the list of the most popular Read More

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Google creates a Playbook for travel

By Kevin May | July 13, 2016

Recent moves, both on the industry relationship and product side, have indicated that perhaps Google is ramping up its efforts in the travel sector. First came the recent launches of new apps and e Read More

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Google adds airfare tracking, hotel deal spotting, and filters to its metasearch

By Sean O'Neil | July 12, 2016

Google has begun adding a few tricks to its flights and hotels metasearch on both desktop and mobile. All of them have been pioneered elsewhere. But their adoption by Google may bring their usage t Read More

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App use study casts shadow over Facebook Messenger

By Martin Cowen | July 8, 2016

A global report from SimilarWeb, looking at the amount of time people spend on messaging apps, is a useful aside to the recent run of news around Facebook Messenger bots for travel. Over the past f Read More

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Why hotels should fight back against online mirror marketing

By Viewpoints | July 5, 2016

So, I bet if I ask you what your main concerns are as hoteliers when battling the online travel agencies, there would be two responses... The level of commission The stranglehold of rate parit Read More

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