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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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Google goes deep on mobile search and booking behaviour

By Kevin May | July 5, 2016

Search giant Google and research house TNS have combined forces to examine the role of mobile in search and shopping patterns with travellers. The huge study used data from Google's search queries Read More

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Google: time for the travel industry to see through its do-no-evil mantra

By Viewpoints | June 29, 2016

I believe that Google poses the biggest long-term threat to the profitability and growth of airlines, hoteliers and travel intermediaries that they have ever seen. Here’s why. NB: This is an opi Read More

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Consumers think Google knows them better than travel brands

By Linda Fox | June 23, 2016

Travel brands are falling short in the personalisation stakes according to the latest research from data specialist Boxever. The Dublin-based company carried out research on 500 consumers revealing Read More

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Google convenes meeting of travel brands to ease tensions

By Kevin May | June 22, 2016

Google has created what it is calling a "Travel Industry Council" in a bid to improve relations with brands around the sector. The group is known to have met over the course of two days earlier thi Read More

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A few things to know about Progressive Web Apps and travel

By Linda Fox | June 21, 2016

A few weeks ago Air Berlin demonstrated its Progressive Web App during the Google I/O developer conference. It's staking a claim as the first airline with the service which enables users to access Read More

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Travel conversation and context, does Google Assistant have all the answers?

By Linda Fox | May 31, 2016

You might have heard of travel virtual assistants Pana and Lola but you will definitely have heard of Google Allo and Assistant. If Google Trips is being seen as the app to end all other in-destina Read More

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Peakwork, the next-gen travel distribution company, has been on the ascent

By Sean O'Neil | May 24, 2016

Peakwork, a Düsseldorf-based travel technology company that builds distribution tools, has been expanding beyond its home region of Europe. In the past half-year, the 200-person company opened its Read More

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Why Google woke up and smelt the travel coffee

By Kevin May | May 20, 2016

Google has never been lacking in confidence - and that's not just because it has a market cap of $487 billion and last year took in $74.5 billion in revenues. There have been some high-profile and Read More

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