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Travel Tech Scan: Priceline gets pummeled, Google tries CGI: Versailles, Boingo goes shopping, and more

By Sean O'Neil | August 9, 2012

Stocks of Priceline and Orbitz plummeted yesterday because of weaker than expected earnings this year. The top-grossing paid travel app FlightTrack is coming out in a free version today, and there's a... Read More

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The long and convoluted road to a mobile travel strategy [Part 1 of 2]

By Viewpoints | August 7, 2012

Mobile is hot. Not the kind of incidences involving smoking iPhones, but as indicated by the almost daily write ups about the hike of travel related activities on mobile, how tablets are changing... Read More

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Yeah, take note remaining mobile travel naysayers [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | August 1, 2012

A tour operator boss recently disclosed privately that mobile and its impact on the travel industry and consumer behaviour drives him "mad". Read More

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Time for travel companies to say what they mean to Google

By PhocusWire | August 1, 2012

A year ago, Google, Bing (Microsoft) and Yahoo announced Schema.org: a taxonomy that would allow webpages to self-describe their content. Read More

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What will Apple do in travel? More questions than answers

By Viewpoints | July 30, 2012

A Google search for "what will Apple do?" returns more than two million results. Journalists, analysts, strategists, fanboys and even the odd civilian want to know. Read More

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Navigating the rising mobile travel tide - Five pointers for the next 12 months

By Viewpoints | July 27, 2012

Putting in place a mobile strategy is no longer a nice-to-have, it is the essential weapon in a fast-paced and competitive sector. Read More

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Busting five myths about mobile applications for hotels

By Viewpoints | July 24, 2012

Over the last few months I have been very disappointed by hearing several hotel Internet marketing companies dismissing mobile applications as part of a hotel’s mobile marketing strategy. Read More

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Google sees last minute travel queries go mobile, desktop takes a dive

By Linda Fox | July 19, 2012

Google has recorded quite a spike in queries for last minute travel products from mobile devices in recent months Read More

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A rough guide to attribution marketing in travel

By Viewpoints | July 9, 2012

It’s been said by many that to make attribution worthwhile you need a fixed idea about how your individual channels contribute to a lead or a sale. Read More

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British Airways and the Know Me saga: Should companies run image checks on customers?

By Sean O'Neil | July 9, 2012

British Airways has created a stir with its plan to run identity checks on "very important" business passengers. Read More

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Kayak prices IPO at up to $25 per share, hopes to raise $100 million

By Kevin May | July 9, 2012

Don't rub your eyes - 21 months after announcing its intention to hit the public financial markets, Kayak is almost there, setting an opening share price at $25. Read More

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More chaos in the purchase funnel - meta-meta travel search

By Kevin May | July 6, 2012

Just as suppliers are trying to get closer to customers and almost everyone seems to lament the number of websites they have to visit before booking....... meta-meta search sticks it's oar in. Read More

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What is new in hotel distribution? Not a lot actually

By Glenn Gruber | July 2, 2012

After three and a half days of wandering around the annual HITEC event in the US, I will argue there is not much going on in hotel distribution. Honestly. Read More

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What happened two years ago today?

By Kevin May | July 1, 2012

As the second quarter of 2010 drew to a close, Google's widely rumoured acquisition of ITA Software had already moved past the "if" category to "when". Read More

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Throwing voice search into the mix to get flight, hotel and rail results

By Kevin May | June 29, 2012

Voice search, to some extent, is still in its relative infancy in the travel industry despite the buzz around Apple's Siri and the voice recognition capabilities of Google Android. Read More

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