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Bing gets more social with travel planning and everything else

By Dennis Schaal | May 22, 2012

Bing started out attempting to be a "decision engine" and now it is letting your Facebook friends add their advice to the mix. Read More

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eLong in huge China online shift with echoes of Expedia-Google problem

By Dennis Schaal | May 21, 2012

eLong, Expedia's online travel agency subsidiary in China, has carried out a very substantial shift to online hotel bookings in the past year. Read More

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Google throws its social travel planning service Schemer onto mobile

By Kevin May | May 18, 2012

Remember Schemer, Google's service to find out things to do in a destination based on tips from friends within a user's network of contacts and professional reviewers? Read More

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The battle for small: Is West Africa tougher for hostel OTAs than for the big boys?

By Viewpoints | May 17, 2012

Earlier this year I made a booking for a small, independent property called Eshu in Cape Coast, Ghana. Read More

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How to unlock Big Data to make it big in value for the travel industry

By Viewpoints | May 16, 2012

Data is always plural, and it can be big in many ways. Huge, enormous, gigantic, epic - you get the idea. Read More

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Look what happened to this town on Google Earth

By Kevin May | May 15, 2012

It's all about how to attract attention to small destinations at the moment, following the success of a Swiss mountain village on Facebook and efforts elsewhere. Read More

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The best trip planning sites might be those that focus on motivation, not inspiration

By Alex Bainbridge | May 14, 2012

For many people travel is all about realising dreams, a brief respite from the daily grind of life and the chance to get inspired by places that they visit. Read More

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Mobile web accounts for just a fifth of time spent on devices, apps reign supreme

By Kevin May | May 9, 2012

Fascinating stats released by ComScore this week showing the apparent dominance of applications in the lives of users at the expense of mobile web browsing. Read More

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Cost and value of hotel marketing [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | May 7, 2012

So what happened to commissions and bookings when hotels saw online as a significant distribution channel? Does exposure on social networks make any major difference? Read More

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Wait, what is this? Expedia powers new GoogleDeal website

By Kevin May | May 4, 2012

Just for fun. A headline to send its fellow members of the FairSearch anti-Google lobbying group running to the hills in horror, but Expedia is indeed helping run a site called GoogleDeal. Read More

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To app or not to app - that is the question. But what is the answer in travel?

By Kevin May | May 4, 2012

How many times at a travel conference or seminar has a mobile provider or company been asked whether it is best to stick with the mobile version of a site or develop an app? Read More

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Local is the new black in travel search

By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | May 4, 2012

What is local? Metasearch has not had a huge amount of luck with developing operations in local markets. Read More

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Warning: Big Data in travel and why People Not From These Parts could win

By Viewpoints | May 2, 2012

Big Data has blossomed into a big topic among many in the Travel industry because it is, well, BIG. Read More

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User generated photo tours added to Google Maps

By Kevin May | April 26, 2012

Anything Microsoft can do, we can (try and) do better - at least that appears to be an unwritten motto at Google when it comes to some of the things it is trying. Read More

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Majority of smartphone owners now accessing travel content via their devices

By Kevin May | April 20, 2012

Wake-up-and-the-smell-the-coffee moment for the tourism industry with data showing for the first time that the majority of smartphone users are using their devices to check out travel content. Read More

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